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THE CAMPAIGN FOR SAFER ROADS THROUGH BETTER DRIVING<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

BETTER DRIVING SAVES LIVES<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Complete Antidote to Unreasonable Speed Limit Setting<\/em>
and Heavy-Handed Roads Policing<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to the home of common sense road safety – a no-nonsense campaign to counter the woefully simplistic ‘Speed Kills<\/em>\u2019 mantra with the core proposition that ‘Better Driving Saves Lives<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are troubled by road deaths and injuries caused by careless, dangerous or reckless driving since most of these tragedies are preventable. But we are equally troubled by contemporary enforcement methods which are claimed to prevent crashes but ride roughshod over ‘Policing by Consent’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policing By Consent is the cherished principle upon which the British Police Service was founded by Sir Robert Peel back in 1829. Police discretion was welcomed as a defining feature of our British way of life; the British police service was admired and respected throughout the world because of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regrettably, consensual roads policing, a jewel in our national crown, has gradually fallen victim to authoritarian policing methods which are alien to our libertarian culture and sensibilities. It was arch technocrat, the king of authoritarianism Tony Blair who initiated the demise of Policing By Consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blair’s way was to prioritise technology over people. On his watch speed cameras became a third-rate subsitute for proper roads policing once carried out by experienced police road traffic officers whose face-to-face engagement with drivers and other road users was firm, fair and even friendly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through this policing traditon, decent people respected the police and came to expect fairness in their dealings with them when going about their lawful business. Rogue drivers on the other hand could expect the police to apply the full force of the law against them as appropriate, and even they would usually concede when it was a “fair cop”, In short, the system wasn’t broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British people have a visceral sense of fair play and reasonableness, (think cricket for example), whereas speed cameras now criminalise millions of drivers each year who would not otherwise come into contact with policing. No wonder drivers feel affronted and are up in arms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speed Doesn’t Kill<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speed ‘per se’ doesnt kill but “speed kills” propaganda that gained traction on Blair’s watch claimed that it did. This claim was then used to justify policing by technology instead of policing by humans. And so, at the stroke of Blairs pen, the death knell of ‘policing by consent’ was sounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without the discretion that police road traffic officers used to have at their disposal, all drivers are now treated exactly the same as the rogue drivers and have had their right to have their mitigation considered by the Police Service or a Jusitce Of The Peace effectively curtailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By means of this coercive ‘one-size-fits all’ tyranny which fails to discriminate between drivers and circumstances Blair managed to replace George Dixon with George Orwell. The latter would be staggered by his foresight whereas the former would be turning in his grave!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make No Mistake, This Is Socialism At Work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notions of ‘controlling people’ and ‘equal misery for all’ are defining hallmarks of socialism; a realisation that, thankfully, more and more people are waking up to realise.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The enforcement practices described might (just) be tolerable if it wasn’t for the fact crashes are the product of much more than speed in isolation and so speed cameras are just a third-rate proxy for preventing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blair’s wish, nevertheless, was to see speed cameras proliferate. This was naive at best but, at worst. would be consistent with a long-term Fabian agenda to control people and strip them of their rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Policing by Consent’ would then be a blockage to this agenda and would need to be replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drivers And Crash Victims Deserve Better<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We believe that drivers, crash victims and all other vulnerable road users <\/em>
deserve better than ineffective, authoritarian, proxy, ‘poundshop policing’ methods<\/em>.
The time has come for these people to unite around a common cause, <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lucrative industry which Blair established preys indiscriminately on drivers whose only option is to cave in to being controlled a nanny state. It is egregious because speed limits are nowadays set ideologically by politicians with agendas which detract from the road safety imperative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Campaign seeks boldly and unapologetically to address these injustices
by restoring road safety policies and practices to how they once operated pre-Blair<\/em>
when ‘Policing By Consent’ was considered essential <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Solution \/ Way Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can win this battle if ‘right of centre’ political parties find the courage to include our <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Five Reforms For Safer Roads Through Better Driving’<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

in, first, their Welsh Senedd Election Manifestos for 2026 and, later, their General Election Manifestos for 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Political Imperative Of Our Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every government since Blair, including Conservative Transport Ministers who should have known better, allowed speed cameras to become ever more ubiquitous on their watch rather than challenging the basic premise of whether they needed to be deployed at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason for this is that most politicians have now been captured by the same socialist \/ globalist \/ marxist \/ progressive liberalist (i.e fascist) EU agenda of which Blair was an exemplar, which is why the Conservatives and Labour are now referred to as ‘the uniparty’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has precipitated the fight for our way of life and existence as a country we now find ourselves in given the unbridled authoritarianism that the Fabian Labour Government under Sir Keir Starmer is now pursuing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK voted to leave the EU in 2016 but has yet to reap the benefits of being able to do things our way, in keeping with our own culture and traditions; surely the society our forebears fought for and which we would now want to pass to our children and grandchildren intact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We view our ‘Five Reforms as one small but significant element in this patriotic fight but we cannot do it alone. All right thinking patriotic citizens therefore must now unite, especially groups opposed to unreasonable speed limit setting, heravy-handed enforcement and state over-reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If political parties can find it in themselves to be big enough
and patriotic enough to put the national interest first, and unite around our
comprehensive Road Safety Agenda,
then they will surely win the respect, admiration and votes
of up to thirty five million voting drivers;
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The Background<\/strong>: Speed Kills – A Safety Scare That Costs Lives’<\/strong>1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Speed Kills – A Safety Scare That Costs Lives is the apposite title of a book chapter which we summarise later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It provides valuable insights into how the State works vis a vis how the idea that ‘speed kills’ took hold consistent with the classic ‘Problem-Reaction-Solution<\/span>‘ playbook.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Problem-Reaction-Solution is the ‘go to’ method for governments when they want impose policies that they know will be unpopular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the means by which they try to forge consensus amongst the general population by first creating a scare and then selling their preferred solution as being for “the greater good.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They got away with this approach for years until they finally overplayed their hand during the manufactured ‘covid crisis’ and unwittingly woke many people up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chapter in question points the finger at speed kills zealot, Richard Brunstrom, former Chief Constable of North Wales Police, and diehard eco-warrior and Guardian columnist, George Monbiot, for setting the scene for a police \/ public relations disaster through their unbridled enthusiasm for a ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to so-called ‘speeders’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sane people tried to warn that their uncompromising stance would not save lives and that respect for law enforcement would be trashed, but those brave and tenacious critics, (the likes of Paul Smith from ‘Safespeed’ and Idris Francis from ‘Fightback With Facts’), became early victims of what we now know as ‘cancel culture’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These heroes found themselves rounded upon by an establishment that was determined to drive through Blair’s plans, supported by a ‘dodgy dossier’ from the DfT which falsely proclaimed the effectiveness of speed cameras in saving lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately for the establishment, Smith proved, (and the below video from Top Gear reinforces), that speed cameras do not save lives<\/em>, they merely catch people breaking speed limits, but Blair pressed ahead with his mission regardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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