20 is plenty

I'm a big fan of the 20 mph speed limit in Portsmouth.  It does make life easier when cars go by more slowly.  Safer and more pleasant for walkers, cyclists and children. 

It would help the sex workers too.  However, despite Portsmouth being the home of the British Navy, we have no red light district.   When that evil bastard was murdering working girls in Ipswich, it transpired that Ipswich has a red light district.  Ipswich??  The home of the 'Tractor Boys' has a mini-Amsterdam whereas the closest the home of the Navy gets to Amsterdam is an old canal full of stolen bikes. 

Anyway.  The 20 mph limit.

There are the usual libertarian bleats about having the right to drive fast but like most things libertarians say, it’s just self-centred, sociopathic bollocks.

For instance, there is a libertarian myth that the Government is waging a ‘war on motorists’.  The way the ‘war’ works is that motorists give the governments a lot of money and expects to have all their fantasies fulfilled.   Whatever the motorist might be expecting, the governments just dresses up in stockings and a bra and teases the motorists for a while before eventually giving them a handjob.  Or a bypass.  Is that really a war?  Should it not be “the disappointing punter / whore transaction on motorists”?

Anyway, once again, back from prostitution to the 20 mph limit.  Very nice but not enforced. Apparently it is not police policy to enforce laws they don’t like. Instead, us citizens have to enforce it.  

Quite simple to do.   When you see a speeding car, flick the Vs with your right hand and make the ‘wanker’ sign with your left hand.   The V represents the two in 20 and the wanker sign represents the zero.  Make sure the driver can clearly see both of your hands.  Reminding him of the speed limit in this way will make him slow down.  

He may even stop.