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Tim Buxton
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No, but it's probably not the sort of company car that you're allowed to take home after work. 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:34 am Post subject: |
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Not specifically in that report but he was. They don't lend out cars to off duty officers either
Edit: Bu**er, you beat me to it 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | Harriet Harman has been banned and if a cabinet minister receives a ban and a fine, why should a poice officer be treated differently? here
BUT, perhaps she's not a good example to use, further research shows possible 'preferred treatmant' - here and here
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Very much an habitual speeder. There was a time, many years ago, when I would have considered it unthinkable that a good socialist woman might ever have a car capable of travelling at 99mph so smoothly that she wouldn't notice she was speeding. That was when I was young. I didn't realise that you could be a "true" labour party (or indeed, any party) politician and still "earn" an obscene salary. I presume that when the day comes that speed monitors are fitted to all vehicles, MP's vehicles will be exempt.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | .............I presume that when the day comes that speed monitors are fitted to all vehicles, MP's vehicles will be exempt. |
Of course, what else would you expect from our so called leaders.
Do as i say, not as i do!
That applies to police officers as well.
When i was younger, I had a police officer friend who used to start all the fights on a night out - thought it was great fun.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | There was a time, many years ago, when I would have considered it unthinkable that a good socialist woman might ever have a car capable of travelling at 99mph so smoothly that she wouldn't notice she was speeding. |
Why shouldn't a 'socialist' have a decent car?
(off_topic)I used to live in a place in Yorkshire where people did not like others to have nice stuff. An example: if you needed some decorating doing and a decorator turned up in a half decent car you didn't hire him because to be able to afford it he must be ripping you off in some way. I didn't 'get' that attitude and still don't. In hampshire you still see this kind of thing occasionally but it's very infrequent.(/off_topic)
Oh, and the traffic cop familiarising himself with the car, legitimate in my opinion but he should have got it approved as an official training excercise rather that doing it off his own bat. So mixed feeings on that one.
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MaFt
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| GJF wrote: |
Do as i say, not as i do!
That applies to police officers as well.
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some, not all. i know quite a few honest coppers...
not to say there aren't some dodgy ones though
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | GJF wrote: |
Do as i say, not as i do!
That applies to police officers as well.
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some, not all. i know quite a few honest coppers...
not to say there aren't some dodgy ones though
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Sorry, point taken, i should have wrote -
That applies to SOME police officers as well.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4559173.stm
no mention that he was on duty... |
| Quote: | | The court heard the roads on which Pc Milton drove were deserted at the time of the patrol and that driving conditions were good. |
I'd say they defended the officer with policy or lack of it, and suggested that by honing his skills he was somehow on PATROL???? 
Dont' like that!
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| TheBrit wrote: | | Quote: | | There was a time, many years ago, when I would have considered it unthinkable that a good socialist woman might ever have a car capable of travelling at 99mph so smoothly that she wouldn't notice she was speeding. |
Why shouldn't a 'socialist' have a decent car?
(off_topic)I used to live in a place in Yorkshire where people did not like others to have nice stuff. |
As a dyed in the wool Yorkshireman I can go along with that. As for cars, MaFt has a Ford Escort and he lives in Yorkshire.
Socialists are supposed to wear hair shirts and walk or ride bicycles like David Cameron. That way, they'd never set off speed camera thingies.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | Socialists are supposed to wear hair shirts and walk or ride bicycles like David Cameron. That way, they'd never set off speed camera thingies. |
they might do - I know cyclists who claim to have triggered speed cameras
...but probably on a downhill stretch 
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | As for cars, MaFt has a Ford Escort and he lives in Yorkshire. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | DennisN wrote: | | Socialists are supposed to wear hair shirts and walk or ride bicycles like David Cameron. That way, they'd never set off speed camera thingies. |
they might do - I know cyclists who claim to have triggered speed cameras
...but probably on a downhill stretch |
I know just the place! GATSO:3015@30 is at the bottom of a very fast hill. It's in West Yorkshire between Morley and Batley.
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mostdom
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Well that's it then. It's all these Yorks Woolies that are givig the rest of the country a bad name. 
Get back in yer own part of te country. 
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | DennisN wrote: | | As for cars, MaFt has a Ford Escort and he lives in Yorkshire. |
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Sorry MaFt, I forgot you were even more hair shirt than Escort! 
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| TheBrit wrote: | | I know just the place! GATSO:3015@30 is at the bottom of a very fast hill. It's in West Yorkshire between Morley and Batley. |
It's probably the memory of my older brother and me on a tandem 60 years ago that caused this camera to be put up in the first place.
| mostdom wrote: | | Get back in yer own part of te country. |
Southern Softy pants!!  Te is not how you spell 't, it's spelt 't. Like in - 't factory.
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