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The News Biscuit reports on the Flags having to be displayed by “Stupid Drivers” in England.

Under new proposals to improve road safety during the summer season when traffic levels on Britain’s roads peak, the government has rolled out plans under which the stupidest drivers in England will have to identify themselves by displaying distinctive red and white flags on each side of the car. In extreme cases, more than two flags will need to be carried.

‘This is not discrimination, it is common sense,’ said new Transport Minister Norman Baker MP. ‘Some aggressive young men with brains the size of sweetcorn are a dangerous menace on our roads. With this requirement in place, at least other drivers and pedestrians will be able to see them coming.’

Emergency legislation has been brought in to require all those defined as boy racers, pillocks and half-wits to display the flags from today until the end of July. If successful, the safety scheme may be extended indefinitely.

Some commentators have questioned the governments’ legal definition of ’stupid drivers’ which a leaked memo reveals as ‘all builders, scaffolding workers, road diggers and delivery men, and any other male who works with his hands or takes sugar in his tea.’

The devolved Scottish and Welsh governments said that they would not be introducing similar legislation, fearing that it may be counter-productive. When Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond was repeatedly asked if there were any plans to fly flags from vehicles in Scotland this summer, his response was to swear loudly at the English reporter and then attempt to punch him in the face.

In a separate development, the government’s clampdown on loutish behaviour has seen a clampdown targetted at young males wearing football shirts in public. The guidelines caused a delay to the kick off in the England friendly last night after twenty-two men were detained by police in the Wembley area.

Stupid drivers forced to display white flags with red cross | NewsBiscuit.

The Guardian has an article about the possible release of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. This man murdered 13 women and attempted the murder of 7 others. He was given 20 life sentences in 1981.

All I can say is that if this man is released my belief in British justice will have finally died.

I was in the Leeds/Sheffield area in the late 70′s and remember the absolute terror this man brought to women all over the area. Normal people were afraid to do normal things like just walk home without fear.

The thought of him being outside of four high walls and able to strike again is beyond belief.

Peter Sutcliffe – a reasonable release? | UK news | The Guardian.

Gold! Stunning the first individual gold in 30 years has been won by Amy Williams. Well Done!

BBC has this:

Amy Williams won Britain’s first solo Winter Olympics gold medal for 30 years with victory in the women’s skeleton.

The Bath slider, 27, broke her own track record on the way to Team GB’s first medal of the Vancouver Games in a time of three minutes 35.64 seconds.

German Kerstin Szymkowiak was 0.56 seconds behind in silver with her team-mate Anja Huber taking bronze, while GB’s Shelley Rudman finished sixth.

Figure skater Robin Cousins won GB’s last individual gold in 1980.

Williams, who survived a protest against the legality of her helmet, held a substantial 0.30-second overnight lead after setting a track record of 53.83 seconds in her opening run on Thursday.

And she extended that lead to 0.52 seconds with a new track record of 53.68 seconds on the third of her four runs.

Canada’s pre-race favourite Mellisa Hollingsworth was in second going into the final run, but she faltered and fell away to fifth while Williams produced a solid run to hold off the German challenge and take the title.

“It’s crazy,” Williams told BBC Sport.

“I didn’t think I’d be standing here, it’s all such a blur, I can’t remember most of the last run.

“I came out at the bottom and saw our performance director Andi Schmid smiling, so I thought it must be good.

“Before the race I was okay, it was a bit weird as I was on my own in the changing room and didn’t know when to go out.

“I was a bit nervous before it but I thought I’ve got nothing to lose so I thought I’d just go out and enjoy it and it was great.”

Williams’ achievement is all the more remarkable when you consider Britain does not have a skeleton track to train on, apart from a dry starting section near Bath.

BBC Sport – Vancouver 2010 – British slider Amy Williams wins Olympic skeleton gold.

This comment on Guido’s Scum Gate post amused me. Of course it is totally non-PC and if a Labour or Tory MP said this I would hotly complain (I don’t complain about Lib Dems et al, who cares)

AUSTRALIA – THE VOICE OF MODERATION

One thing about blokes from Oz is that their hearts and
humor are always in the right place!

T. B. Bechtel, a City Councilor from Newcastle, Australia,
was asked on a local live radio talk show, just what he
thought about the allegations of torture of suspected
terrorists. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio,
but to thunderous applause from the audience.

HIS STATEMENT:

“If hooking up one raghead terrorist prisoner’s testicles
to a car battery to get the truth out of the lying
little camel shagger will save just one Australian life,
then I have only three things to say,’ ‘Red is positive,
black is negative, and make sure his nuts are wet.”

P.S. I am not an MP so can be a little less PC in what I say. It’s a life choice thing.

Scum-gate – Guy Fawkes’ blog.

Twenty Years ago was my first Valentines day with my Wife.

In those days she lived in Inverness and I lived in Aberdeen. This meant many hours driving between the two sometimes at some very strange times. What I really needed was a fast car to replace my trusty VW Golf 1300, Instead I married Chris and spent the fast car money on a wonderful honeymoon. One of my better decisions in life.

Tracy Chapman and a few others kept us awake on those journeys and many of those songs are special to us even now, so here is a little taster from those days.

Just noticed this from a couple of years ago when I said:

Way back in the distant past in the years B.C. (Before Chris, my wife) I finally bought a CD player and then had to buy a CD to play on it. My first CD, bought more for the fact that it was Digital Recording,and I wanted to see how a CD could perform, was Tracy Chapman. I had heard the odd snipet of Tracy Chapman before this and thought I would like the CD.

How right I was. I cannot number the times I have listened to this CD. When I met my wife she was living in Inveress and I was in Aberdeen so I spent a fair bit of my life driving up and down the A96 (not a pleasant experience) between the two cities. Much of the time I listened to this CD and this track was perhaps my favourite depending upon the mood I was in, good on the way and bad on the way back.

Anyway enjoy.

P.S. And no to my brother she is not a poor man’s Joan Armatrading.

YouTube – Fast car -Tracy Chapman.