Wise Up To The Zeitgeist and See The Big Picture
No one who is truly awake can fail to recognise the war of attrition now being waged on drivers for mainly ideological reasons arising from EU and globalist agendas.
The proliferation of speed cameras and technocratic authoritarianism is simply part of this zeitgeist. It has more to do with control than it has to do with road safety, rides roughshod over ‘Policing By Consent’ and alienates the very drivers we want onboard.
In their chapter ‘Speed Kills – A Safety Scare That Costs Lives’, summarised on this site, Booker and North document the dodgy dossier that enabled the speed camera regime to be steam-rollered into being. This has resulted in millions of drivers being criminalised, vilified and gaslit for over three decades now, essentially to cover for inadequacies in the system itself.
This scapegoating has provided cover for the State to abrogate its duties and responsibilities whilst seeking to control people and extract more money from them. Little wonder that hard done by drivers are fed up.
It appears that despite voting to leave the EU, governments have fallen into the trap of putting the agendas of globalist elites ahead of home-grown measures to protect their own citizens from harm. Our Campaign says ‘enough is enough.
A Relic of the Woke Orwellian Post-Truth Era
The current system is beginning to be seen as a relic of the woke, Orwellian post-truth era which is increasingly being exposed and called out throughout the world. Under it, arrogant, aloof and disconnected authoritarian governments have overplayed their hand, causing more and more people to wake up and fight back.
It is hard to fight back against the system however unless the politicians of tomorrow adopt a more libertarian stance and are able and willing to put forward better alternatives.
Our ‘Five Reforms for Safer Roads Through Better Driving ’ (in tandem with the ‘Welcoming Roads’ initiative from the Motorcycle Action Group) affords politicians the opportunity to rectify injustices inherent in the current system for both drivers and all road accident victims, past, present and future.
This can be achieved, essentially by restoring the tried-and-tested measures that we used to operate before the road safety system became politicised and lost its way.
As a sovereign independent nation we could start by ditching much of the the ‘Vision Zero’ rhetoric and returning to an explicitly ‘Three E’s’ approach to road safety; Engineering, Education and Enforcement.
No more gimmicks, no more fads, no more addressing symptoms whilst overlooking root causes. no more trying to do things on the cheap whilst wasting £billions on government inefficiency.
Providing the political will is there, the necesary correction can be achieved by the following straightforward measures:
- RESTORING DISCRETION IN TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT
Restoring reasonableness, discretion and sanity to traffic law enforcement policy - EMBEDDING THINKING SKILLS INTO DRIVER TRAINING & LICENSING
Embedding the profound insights of Mind Driving, especially the Risk Model, into the fabric of the driver training and licensing system making it fit-for-purpose such that the true causes of crashes are finally addressed – not the simplistic, proxy cause of exceeding a posted speed limit! - BRINGING ROAD TRAFFIC POLICING BACK INTO COMMUNITIES
Restoring community based police road traffic patrols who target those drivers who most need thair attention - SETTING SPEED LIMITS RATIONALLY AGAIN
Return to setting speed limits rationally (as opposed to ideologically) with reference to the 85th Percentile protocol and is likely to achieve high rates of driver acceptability and compliance – especially in Wales! - ENGENDERING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR SAFER ROADS
Why not grow a network of community champions throughout the UK empowered with the data and knowledge they need to bring about innovation in road safety based upon sound Three Es principles, thereby contributing to a national culture of better driving whereby networked communities share sound practices.
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The next step for any political parties willing to engage with this straightforward agenda is to include these Five Reforms as a package in their election manifestos and begin to prepare draft legislation so that they can hit the ground running with the implementation phase as soon as they are in power.
In adopting the Five Reforms they can be confident that their manifesto will find massive favour with the vast majority of voting drivers as well as right-thinking members of organisations representing accident victims.