Author Archives: Leon Mannings

Cut congestion then bring it back to save us all from the scourge of pollution, or just the start of a new Carry-On type craze in motorway madness?

How about spending £300million and creating three years of misery to cut congestion on Britain’s number one motorway, then bring it back by cutting the speed limit? You really couldn’t make it up… It took three years to widen what had been one of Britain’s most congested sections of Motorway on the M1 that goes [...]

Phew what a Clanger! Red faced boys in blue on Merseyside are nicked as spy in sky drone is grounded a week after first arrest

They say that what goes around comes around and what goes up must surely come down. But sometimes these things happen embarrassingly fast and that is certainly the case for the red faced boys in blue on Merseyside… Within a week of the Liverpool police delight at their first arrest using a remote controlled spy [...]

Are spy-in-sky camera drones really the best way to police Britain’s roads or just a new option to boost PCN revenue and profits from high-tech war machines?

It would seem that our real Big Brother in Britain plans to use unmanned spy drone cameras to look after us even better than before. Ah, how lovely you may think. But maybe not… Frankly, I am quite concerned by the idea of UK police using such high-tech spy-in-the-sky kit, currently deployed in war zones [...]

Record depths reached in push to be Britain’s top ‘Robber Baron’, just another cut in ‘free’ parking, or could this be good news for bike parking tax opponents?…

I am rarely surprised by the depths that a desperate politician will plunge to, while trying to justify action that stinks. In my experience this often happens when a plan for a government move is being pushed that is nothing more than state backed extortion or highway robbery – and that looks to most law [...]

Let it snow let it snow let it snow – and let the traffic slow to a shambolic halt in London

Buses, cars, vans and trucks have been stuck in a chaotic mess in London during the last two days. At surface level this seems to be due to an inch or so of snow and temperatures dropping just below freezing for a few hours – and a failure by our traffic managers to cope with [...]