Reform Senedd candidate mocked for blasting 20mph speed limit while standing on a 50mph road

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." A little Kierkegaard for your Monday evening.

Thanks to NC for printing the comments and to those who left them. There was a glimmer of hope that this person who seemed devoid of the normal necessary human traits of the notions of shame, humiliation and embarassment harboured them in there somewhere shown by the disabling of further comments but it was shattered before that with a desperare show of bravado in trying to skew who is really having the laugh. I cannot match up 'studying for my doctorate' with this level of total muppetry.

It's probably something to do with the "every road is 20mph" nonsense that still gets pushed around online, and people just not bothering to confirm what the policy actually was. Of course, as was stated in the original policy, which people chose to ignore, some roads will be changing moving forward, with some increasing the speed limit but with other communities pushing their councils to change to 20mph on some roads due to the reduction in accidents and deaths on other roads since dropping the speeds.

To be fair, when I was 4 I used to mix up my 2's and 5's as well.

....... and these are people who want to lead the country?

What can be certain is that the only thing that's slow is not the 20 mph default speed limit, but Reform's Catherine Cullen. She's as dim as a 2-watt lightbulb.

Is the 50 her I.Q. score?

I have already posted, but I feel that I must comment on the costs that keep getting thrown around. This has been covered in so many different places, but I'm specifically using figures published by BoltBurdonKemp, who are negligence and compensation solicitors in London. "The Department for Transport estimates the total societal cost of someone being killed on the road is just over £2.4 million. When a serious injury occurs, it is £271,000. Even a ‘slight’ injury results in a cost of nearly £21,000. This includes NHS costs, emergency services costs, bereavement services and compensation." Even if you forget about the suffering of the people and their loved ones, that's a cost £2.4 million. In the first few months, that's a saving of £24,000,000 just on the people who would have died. If you include the cost of slight and serious injuries over the same period, that saving increases to around £45,000,000. The cost of implementing the changes was estimated at £32,000,000, which makes a saving of approximately £13,000,000 in the first few months. That doesn't even include savings that are made by the NHS in terms of time, resources. These are not even one-off savings; they carry forward year on year. There have been several independent studies, so perhaps BoltBurdonKemp are not the best source for you, but these figures change very little from source to source; all agree that it is simply better, not just for the people who don't die or have accidents but for people across the country.  Can it be a little annoying sometimes? Absolutely. We are not Americans, though, who judge their own personal freedom above everybody else's freedom. Let's remember that councils have the authority to increase or reduce speeds in locations where it can be beneficial to do so. It was never a blanket change, and it's not immutable; circumstances change over time. There is nothing that I despise more than people who proactively choose not to understand things when the data is freely available to them.

Still waiting for reform or Tory explained the issues with the 20. Apart from “ Labour, grrr”

Reform UK-led Kent County Council's own website states "national and international studies show that lowering the speed limit from 30mph to 20mph reduces the number of casualties". It goes on to say how 20mph schemes promote active travel which is "a very positive contribution to improving health and tackling obesity", and that "there is also no significant increase in the time it takes to cross these zones. Many bus companies have found no difference in their journey times" So 20mph in Kent = good, but 20mph in Wales = bad. Sadly, Catherine Cullen is simply one square in a whole bar of Fruit & Nut.

The reform candidates make clowns in a clown car look like enlightenment intelectuals. They are gonna to be a basket case similar to the UKIP 7 in 2016 but on a worse scale. Ignorance, stupidity, corruption, lies, a bunch of opportunist grifters. Literally the worst England has to offer getting paid to disrupt our parliament to destroy our social services, our culture, language, our democracy & countries reputation.

Is this the same Catherine Cullen who wrote in support of Tommy Robinson on her Facebook page a few months after being the candidate for High Peak?

If Little Britain did politics! Reform rely on barrel scraping but these characters are beyond a joke. Whether they're after the senedd £80k x 4 years lottery or trying to monetise their social media, we should have a minimum level intelligence threshold for anyone claiming governance. There's another down Neath way who can barely speak let alone think. As mentioned previously, instead of sitting at the back of class with the letter D on a pointed hat they now sit in front of their webcam with a pointed KKK hat.

Is this a remake of Alan Partridge?

The reason why this Reform candidate cannot find a suitable 20mph speed limit where it is un-justified is because the blanket imposition by Labour in-built up areas no longer applies. As a result of the petition (and pressure from other political parties in the Senedd) the blanket was changed to just a recommendation, with funding provided to local councils to revert stretches of road where it was silly back to 30mph. It was an ill-conceived imposition. A far better approach would have been what we have now. Am glad to see my council in Carmarthenshire, which is led by Plaid Cymru, revert many stretches back to 30mph. There are still some under consideration on a case by case basis. One of the problems that Reform candidates will have in campaigning on this issue is they don't know which roads were previously 20mph anyway. Candidates parachuted into constituencies by Farage and their party selection process is a mess.

I noticed a few days ago that on average any reporting of Reform's antics draws far more comments than reporting on other subjects often of greater importance. It seems that people are getting terribly agitated by the prospect of Reform saying anything yet we now know from experience that it's mostly noise and very little content. So give it a rest folks and plan your lives for those times, soon arriving, when Reform won't be here to bother you any more. Then you should be free to address the more serious issues that confront us as we continue to be led by other parties full of shallow people.