Ever keen to help out in the Huhne investigation, Guido would just like to point out that there is only one speed camera on the Southbound M11. It’s at Loughton where the three lanes converge into two. You would drive past it on the way back from Stansted airport…
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
is there anyone in the world that Tony hasnt screwed in some way?
Hang him
So Mrs Huhne had been working all day, lecturing and dining all evening while Mr Huhne was fannying around in Strassbourg. I wonder who would be most likely to drive back from Stansted that night?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8519892/50pc-discount-in-jail-term-for-rapists-who-enter-early-guilty-plea.html
Conservatives supporting rapists these days???
It’s Labour who have raped the good people of Great Britain.
Labour released them early without plea bargains under the mandatory release scheme.
We’ve been assigned as the off-shore open penal colony of the EU. Just get used to it.
Kuddly Ken in charge of prisons and Chris “economical with the actualité” in charge of climate change…
How dare you question my judgement!
Ken just did an interview with Robinson to try and clarify what he said but I’m frankly none the wiser.Meanwhile a clearly angry Cameron fails to support his Justice Secretary at PMQs. Ken could be back before Robinson before the day is out to clarify his clarification.
I bet Huhne is not unhappy about Ken taking the media heat off himself though….as tomorrow’s headlines are already written with Clarke the star
Cameron has himself to blame. He should have sacked Clarke months ago when he went soft on knife crime.
This site is better than “Only Fools and Horses”; it has more idiots, hypocrites and bigots. I love this site, its better than any comedy I have seen.
And like the BBC -this is a repeat.
then this must be one of the unfunny repeats as i have definitely seen it before.
Nice for you to pop in, Mr Huhne.
You are simply trying to vajazzle this issue.
The only speeding I’ve ever done in Essex was using amphetamine sulph…. er.., no, wait, hang on a minute….
Can we take it then that “Huhne” replaces “Hoon” as this blog’s putative form of abuse for all those lying troughers still unpunished ?
So you keep saying. So what you doing here?
Which of the Eds are you ?
If you like idiots, hypocrites and bigots try Labour List or UK Uncut. Some of the columnists on Cif fit the bill as well.
You people are funny.
How about a hat-tip to Homewardbound you plagiarizing bastard?
http://order-order.com/2011/05/18/farage-twists-the-knifesenior-libdems-run-from-huhne/#comment-950622
How about a Hat Tip G ?
There IS only one camera or there WAS only one?
Remember how long ago this was.
It’s a fundamental Law of Speed Camera science. Their numbers can only increase and not decrease. Once a fixed speed camera site, always a fixed speed camera site.
It was on a temporary roadworks wasn’t it?
(oh yes someone else on here mentioning that too)
As far as I am aware..only the one on the M11. Massively profitable for the ‘owner’. I’m surprised ‘Buff’ Huhne didn’t see it. Everyone (and his wife) knows it’s there, it’s been in the papers several times FFS. I can only conclude he was tanking it on the M11 and thought that the yellow box was something that only concerned the ‘little people’ not a super important chap like him.
Naturally – he has a long line of people to collect the points for him
He could have bought a speed camera detectors on expense.
Have travelled up and down M11 regularly since 1994….there are two speed cameras actually, practically back to back, both in the southbound lane very near London, altho I think the second one was added sometime after 2003. If they can ascertain the time of the incident it could completely blow away any suggestion that the wife could have left centrel London to pick up hubby at Stansted and then driven practically all the way back to London and triggered the speed camera….it would have been past midnight (and hence the next day) in order for the timeline to work.
So where was the speeding offence?
I have heard that there was only one GATSO on the M11. Now everyone appears to be assuming that this is where the offence was recorded.
What if the ticket was issued elsewhere from a mobile speed trap?
What do we actually know about the speeding ticket in question?
1) Where was the offence committed?
2) What time?
3) What direction was the car travelling?
normally only one, but sounds as though the one that did Huhne was temporary — might be worth checking out the TROs to see where roadworks were at that time?
Have been using the M11 regularly since it was opened – believe it or not it is the direct route from Durham to the City and Docklands. That pesky camera after the reduction in the lanes from 3 to 2 has been there a long time and it is a double-whammy – not only is it at the end of a long and unrelenting motorway trip but it is also just a few hundred yards after the speed limit for the road is reduced unexpectedly from 70 to 50 mph, so lots of red lights, tyre smoke and anchors being thrown out of rear windows. Never been caught myself for the simple reason that I do not tend to break the law.
Good to know they’re unable to move speed cameras between 2003 and 2011
There is only one fixed camera, but there used to be many more in the roadworks which were on the M11 at that time. Ever keen to assist….
Nice one A Ped.
GF, you really WANT this one don’t you…
Let us not beat about the bush
Let us not pull our punches
Let us not be overwhelmed by brotherly love …
We all fucking do ffs!
Thank you T Ped.
Wasn’t the one that caught Huhne a temporary (30 mph) one. The one at the end is a 50mph (normally) — a real bugger and the only one that has ever caught me
The speed limit change is *really* easy to miss and the Gatso is right on the edge of the speed limit change.
http://www.speedcamerasuk.com/database/eee/eee090.htm
If MEPs had to put in proper receipts for their expenses we would probably find that Huhne claimed for parking his cat at airport that week
“Parking his cat”?
I’ve heard some euphamisms in my time, but …
It was a Jaguar.
BAA used to give free airport parking to MEP’s. This was worth about £1500 pa (about 5 years ago) but many of the MEP’s did not declare this.
You could check their declarations online and some MEP’s declared it, others did not
Ah, 1500 eh. Benefit in kind (! for the little people), therefore 40 pct tax due . . .
Ker- ching
He apparently had untraceable free parking for his car. However I am not aware of any specific arrangements for his cat.
The RSPCA would have something to say about that.
Was it a pussy wagon ?
It wasn’t me driving that car, it was that pervert, Handycock.
I. did. not. have. sex. with. that. speed. camera — the wife did!
In the interests of full disclosure, has Guido ever palmed off his speeding points on anyone else?
May I remind you that in modern history, only George Washington never told a lie.
The cherry tree was doing 35 mph. An unbeatable defence in the US.
Apparently the offence was breaking a temporary 30mph limit caused by roadworks. So probably not picked up by a permanent speed camera.
Apols for replicating point already made.
On the subject of records not being retained, surely even minor offences involving people in the public eye are reported in local newspapers.
This story would collapse if it could be shown that Huhne was not within 3 points of losing his licence.
But I think he was, because a few months later he was caught using his mobile phone at the wheel — then he lost it (more than usual).
Guido why not ask your fellow countryman Michael O’Leary for the passenger list that night.
Interesting that he hasn’t gone yet, if that was a Tory minister would DC have kept him hanging on like a fish out of water?
To me it shows yet another sign of appeasing Cleggertron and Dave as weak in my opinion, after the weekend I thought he’d go instead of this drip drip of news.
Dave needs him to present his climate change bullshit and take the flak for it… then Hhuhne will be let go, but the climate change shit stays.
PMQs?
Statement by Domanique Straus-Kahn
I would like to explain my defence. When attending important IMF meetings it is usual for my friends to organise a little relaxation for myself. I believed that the maid had been sent up to me for my personal use. Ask my friend Mr Berlosconi, he will tell you that these mistakes sometimes happen. So just a little misunderstanding you see.
You could also ask Gordon, though he usually ordered young boys.
DSK
A little forensic help: A) what car and licence plate was caught speeding; B) was it parked at Stansted Airport; C) if answer to (B) is “yes” then would Pryce have taken another car/train/taxi to Stansted to drive this car back to London; and, D) if “no” then presumably the “car” travelled from London, to Stansted, driven by someone and that still leaves the question of who drove it back? I suggest you pose the question (B) and then once you have the answer proceed with Qs (C) & (D). Unfortunately this charade buggers up my betting odds on Cable being the first minister to resign
Too complicated for the DPP to follow
Fucked if I know what this is to do with Forensics
Edward will be on fire at todays PMQ’s and will perform the coup de grace on Chris Huhne the hoon
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8519892/50pc-discount-in-jail-term-for-rapists-who-enter-early-guilty-plea.html
Hopefully he will put Blunt in his place too… letting rapists go free…
Your routine is getting very tired tat, even by your sub retard standards.
Ever thought of starting your own blog where you can just bore yourself shitless, instead of inflicting your latent idiocy on everyone here?
“Huhne-gate”.A little forensic help: A) what car and licence plate was caught speeding; B) was it parked at Stansted Airport; C) if answer to (B) is “yes” then would Pryce have taken another car/train/taxi to Stansted to drive this car back to London; and, D) if “no” then presumably the “car” travelled from London, to Stansted, driven by someone and that still leaves the question of who drove it back? I suggest you pose the question (B) and then once you have the answer proceed with Qs (C) & (D). Unfortunately this charade buggers up my betting odds on Cable being the first minister to resign
Who is going to be most surprised if Huhne holds out for the bitter end?
There are a number of speed cameras on the A406 that continues at the end of the M11 and still in Essex… they were there in existence when these alleged offences took place. There also was a weak bridge in that area which took years to repair, so local road signs still take one 25 miles out of your way to access the North Bound M25, repaired the Bridge, never altered the road signes….. government earn out of wasted fuel … there can be no other reason as other signs in the area have been replaced but still they too direct traffic miles from the original and shortest route.
Is this a national policy to get people to use more fuel… One for Guido to dig perhaps, misleading road signs that earn revenue.
Huhne & Cry ?
Yo, Guido!!
In 2003 there were two speed camera on that stretch of the M11 in 2003, one is just after the speed limit change (still there) and the second is on the bend before the slip roads to the A406.
6 Points is worse than 4
Guido – the only permanent speed camera on the southbound M11 is actually at Woodford Bridge – right on the Essex/Met police boundary.
Unless it was a temporary roadworks one which caught him ahem I mean her…
We wouldn’t want Inspector Knacker’s investigation to be confused by inaccurate information, would we?