Friends and family keep asking me why I keep pushing as hard as I do about the issues affecting motorists. If Nu Labour didn't love us so much for driving a cash machine on wheels, they would go out of their hate-driven way to force us from the road. I kid you not. And here today, in the Daily Mail, is a story which sums up these people. They really don't like people contesting speed tickets. They don't see it as 'right'. So now they are introducing another barrier for people to get justice. I've said on here before that kiddy fiddlers and murderers get more protection under the law than motorists and here I am proved right again. Read this story and shake your head. What about our human rights? What about our right to justice? You cannot be a motorist and vote Labour. It's morally wrong. Drivers who challenge speeding fines should be made to pay their legal bills even if they win their case, ministers said yesterday. The proposal would see successful defendants lose their century-old right to claim back their costs. A change in the law would affect many of the 1.7million drivers a year who take their cases to court. Ministers are proposing that defendants lose their century-old right to claim back their legal costs
It costs around £1,500 to fight charges of speeding, illegal parking and other motoring offences. Motoring groups and lawyers said the proposal was a breach of fundamental legal principles. Edmund King, president of the AA, said: 'This is against the common law and against the common man. If you prove your innocence you shouldn't have to pay for it.' Ian Kelcey, head of the Law Society's criminal law committee, called the scheme a disgrace. Read the full Mail story
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