Bruce Roberts, indeed…
“It sends out an explicit signal: we are part of Europe,” said one of the brains behind the scheme. “The little Englanders who want out of Europe are the only ones driving on the left-hand side. We’ve been the smaller relative dominated and having to copy their ridiculous ways for too long. No more. Just think, this will be an indignity for little England – isolated in Europe and pootling along in the slow lane on the left,” he added.
They are concerned, however, that opponents of the move to the right might mobilise under the emotive slogan: “Proud to be left.” Some fear that when the plans go public, the charismatic MP George Galloway would not be prepared to stand on the sidelines but would launch his own appeal: “Stay left, hard left.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah…
Obviously an April Special but:
1. An independent Scotland would want its own road numbering system, not one using the left-overs from the London-centric A1,2,3,4,5,6. Of course a ‘new’ Euro-nation would be told to get in line and adopt numbers from the E-series.
2. Wouldn’t it be easier to adopt the old proposal for making the swap in Ireland, i.e. the cars would changeover on weekend one and the lorries on weekend two?
Bikes first, of course…
Well that’ll blow a whacking great hole in the current second hand car market. The wholesale people buy pre-owned, ex-lease vehicles at auctions in England then flog them at a premium in Scotland.
So in 2017 they’ll have to get them from Germany and France and the Netherlands – and that ain’t cheap.
And most of the right hand vehicles we have will have to fit adapters (or something similar) to their headlights.
Nice first of April piss take however!!!!!!
I like!.
Never interfere with the Scots and cheap transport.
This one’s a piss-take of course, but somewhere in Brussels, enshrined in some little folder (physical or virtual, take your pick), there WILL be the plan to force Britain to drive on the right.
The date has been fixed, of course, and the Quislings probably know about it already. In due course they will deny there’s any such plan; then they will admit there is but claim to be able to veto it; then they will say they couldn’t veto it (it turns out to have been in the Treaties all along, but nobody read them) but they’ve got a great deal on cabbage subsidies – or some such – in exchange for caving in; finally the plan will be implemented on the due date, and the “great deal” will somehow never materialise.
This is how the EU works. We ought to know by now.
NO
Much too expensive.
There’s also the slight problem that driving on the left is probably intrinsically safer than “keep right”.
Why/
Because something like 90% of the population are right-handed & 99% are right-eyed.
And it would make getting on a bus rather interesting.
Actually it’s probably a lot more sensible than some of the things nationaist arse heads are seriously proposing. I wonder how many of these “cybern(tw)ats” thought “yeah, fuck England” before realisation dawned.
More than a few I’ll wager.