Anyone remeber an incident a while back where an MP's chauffer was stopped for speeding and got away with it because of who he was carrying. The speed? I believe it was 100mph....

If this bloke does get found guilty of this, he will probably lose his licence and his job. That in itself is plain daft. However, it will have a much bigger impact on the whole lifesaving role of the NHS.

Unfortunately at the moment England is a place where a lot of things are not right; criminals often appear to have more rights than everyone else, we are appalingly over-taxed, the goverment appears to be making it as hard as possible to earn the money to pay your tax by introducing congestion charging, bus lanes etc, and we have health and education systems that are so under funded its almost funny.

However, if you are involved in a serious accident, have an organ faliure, or in some way look like you are going to die, the NHS is first class. We have well equipped hospitals, some wonderful technology and a first rate set of NHS staff who perform some absolute miracles. If one of your organs fail, another one from someone else can be sent across the country and swapped for yours so you dont die. When you think about it thats pretty amazing. If in the future when organs are being transported the driver has to stick to the limits everywhere it will undermine the entire operation. I sincerely hope that common sense prevails and hopefully this case will set a standard that vehicles carrying rgans in this manner are speed limit exempt.

 

That is a very good point about the MP's chauffeur-I think it was that Straw man, but not sure. He was late for a cabinet meeting or the like!

 

Yup, was Jack Straw.

They used some line about there being a potential security threat to him.

I can smell the BS from here...

 

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Not guilty

and just right too!