Not talking about our local Commies and their HitlerTrump bullshit here. Nope, we have to go Over There to see a bunch of gummint types having their asses handed to them by the voters, for once.
The Labour government’s decision to scrap its blanket 20mph speed limits in Wales just a year after they were introduced has sparked hope for the rest of the UK.
Wales’ Transport Secretary Ken Skates admitted the policy was so unpopular even his own family had signed the petition against it.
This despite all the assurances that a 20mph (!!!!) speed limit would do so much to combat Global Cooling Climate Warming Change©. Of course it wouldn’t (and won’t), just as our own imposition of a 55mph highway speed limit did nothing of the sort either.
I suppose retraction is better than a public hanging, after all — although that may be a contentious issue all by itself, especially among Stout Bulldogs of my acquaintance Over There. (The Englishman, for one, is especially fond of the “heads on pikes” approach to curbing government excess.)
Now we’ll see if the Welsh example spreads to other Brit municipalities of similar stupidity. But I wouldn’t count on it.
Here in the UK Labour’s majority in Westminster is a mile wide but an inch deep. Many MPs were elected with very slender majorities and mostly because Tory voters stayed home.
> …just as our own imposition of a 55mph highway speed limit did nothing of the sort either.
That was to save gas, not to save the planet from catching fire.
Of course it didn’t save as much fuel as intended, because Government can’t math very well (sorry, that had to hurt), and the Commie Arsehole that pushed for it could have never understood the phrase “GTF out of the way and let innovation solve it”.