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To think the Rishi seatbelt nonsense is just tedious?

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Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:39

Not a Tory voter, never have been.

But seriously all this over the fact he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt? Anyone would think he’d been exposed as a sex offender or a user of Class A drugs 🙄

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Keyansier · 20/01/2023 22:42

Completely agree with you. I can't believe somebody not wearing a seatbelt in a car is headline news to beat a stick with someone with, even if it is the Prime Minister. Don't the police have better things to do, like investigating tweets?🙄

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Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:45

It’s one of those ‘crimes’ that is so incredibly minor that virtually everyone has done it in the past couple of months and if this was a politician they happened to like and support, they would quickly switch their view to that as well.

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IScreamMonday · 20/01/2023 22:46

One problem with not wearing a seatbelt in the back seat is that it is incredibly selfish because it increases the risk of injury to someone in the front.

Sucessinthenewyear · 20/01/2023 22:47

Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:45

It’s one of those ‘crimes’ that is so incredibly minor that virtually everyone has done it in the past couple of months and if this was a politician they happened to like and support, they would quickly switch their view to that as well.

I don’t virtually everyone has done this at all never mind in the last few months.

Dappledapples · 20/01/2023 22:47

Disagree. Comes across yet again as though rules are just for the plebs.

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Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:48

IScreamMonday · 20/01/2023 22:46

One problem with not wearing a seatbelt in the back seat is that it is incredibly selfish because it increases the risk of injury to someone in the front.

Yeah and if he was riding about on the regular with no seatbelt on then I would agree, but as a one off the phoney outrage is ridiculously over the top. Have you never ever taken it off for a second for any reason?

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JudgeRinderonTinder · 20/01/2023 22:49

I think the issue is the fact he’s the PM and should abide by the laws of the country he is in charge of. Just smacks of entitlement not to, when I’m sure he’d be right on board with the average Joe being punished for it. The fact people can’t see that is ridiculous.

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Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:49

Dappledapples · 20/01/2023 22:47

Disagree. Comes across yet again as though rules are just for the plebs.

Well he’s been fined so they’re not…

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ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 20/01/2023 22:50

Why would any sane person take their seat belt off, in a moving car?

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Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:51

JudgeRinderonTinder · 20/01/2023 22:49

I think the issue is the fact he’s the PM and should abide by the laws of the country he is in charge of. Just smacks of entitlement not to, when I’m sure he’d be right on board with the average Joe being punished for it. The fact people can’t see that is ridiculous.

It is about as criminal as overlapping a double yellow by 5cm or overstaying your parking ticket by a few minutes. An ‘offence’ on paper but so trivial it’s nothing to get worked up about. I doubt he flung the belt off singing IM FREEEE TO DO WHAT I WANTTTTT ANY OLD TIME he probably just unbuckled for a minute to do something and got papped

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sleepyhead32 · 20/01/2023 22:51

Just another case of do as I say not as I do isn't it. Not a biggie but still something the rest of us mere mortals are supposed to do as standard. The guy is a dick, like all Tories

Keyansier · 20/01/2023 22:51

JudgeRinderonTinder · 20/01/2023 22:49

I think the issue is the fact he’s the PM and should abide by the laws of the country he is in charge of. Just smacks of entitlement not to, when I’m sure he’d be right on board with the average Joe being punished for it. The fact people can’t see that is ridiculous.

It's equal opportunity faux-outrage. If the shoe was on the other foot and Keir Starmer was filmed doing the same thing and the Daily Mail leapt on it like a rabid dog there would be one side hounding him for it and others saying it was pathetic and drumming up outrage over something minor. Which, in either event, it is exactly that: Minor.

bridgetreilly · 20/01/2023 22:51

virtually everyone has done it in the past couple of months

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Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:52

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 20/01/2023 22:50

Why would any sane person take their seat belt off, in a moving car?

To see to a small child in the back, because the driver pulls away before you’ve had the chance to do it up, to reach for something on the back seat, sometimes I do so I can inject my stomach on a long trip if I need to (diabetic)

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Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:52

Keyansier · 20/01/2023 22:51

It's equal opportunity faux-outrage. If the shoe was on the other foot and Keir Starmer was filmed doing the same thing and the Daily Mail leapt on it like a rabid dog there would be one side hounding him for it and others saying it was pathetic and drumming up outrage over something minor. Which, in either event, it is exactly that: Minor.

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Exactly my point! The level of outrage no longer depends on the severity of the crime but the person ‘caught’ doing it. Which is nuts.

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XenoBitch · 20/01/2023 22:52

IScreamMonday · 20/01/2023 22:46

One problem with not wearing a seatbelt in the back seat is that it is incredibly selfish because it increases the risk of injury to someone in the front.

"Like most victims, Julie knew her killer. It was her son, who was not wearing his seatbelt. After crushing her to death, he sat back down"

bridgetreilly · 20/01/2023 22:53

Pressed post too soon!

But huh? No one goes without a seatbelt these days, do they? And the whole point is that lawmakers need to be lawkeepers. It’s not rocket science and it’s so stupid not to realise that.

ThreeLittleDots · 20/01/2023 22:53

He's the PM, he was being filmed, doing a bit to camera, nobody never wears a seatbelt these days unless they're an imbecile.

Not trivial given the context.

YABU.

Wouldlovetobeinthesun · 20/01/2023 22:55

Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:45

It’s one of those ‘crimes’ that is so incredibly minor that virtually everyone has done it in the past couple of months and if this was a politician they happened to like and support, they would quickly switch their view to that as well.

Um no, not me. In fact not anybody I've been in a car with that I can remember either.

JudgeRinderonTinder · 20/01/2023 22:55

Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:51

It is about as criminal as overlapping a double yellow by 5cm or overstaying your parking ticket by a few minutes. An ‘offence’ on paper but so trivial it’s nothing to get worked up about. I doubt he flung the belt off singing IM FREEEE TO DO WHAT I WANTTTTT ANY OLD TIME he probably just unbuckled for a minute to do something and got papped

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It’s not the offence per se like I said, it’s the brazen disregard. £500 is nothing to a billionaire he wouldn’t have given a shit, so yeah, probably does think he can do what he likes.

It’s amazing what low standards people hold our government to. Just like party gate and various dodgy dealings 😂 Christ almighty. We vote for what we deserve.

IScreamMonday · 20/01/2023 22:55

Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:48

Yeah and if he was riding about on the regular with no seatbelt on then I would agree, but as a one off the phoney outrage is ridiculously over the top. Have you never ever taken it off for a second for any reason?

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I've no idea how often he has done it and no I wouldn't take mine off in a moving vehicle.

In a crash with a rear passenger not wearing a seatbelt, the incidence of death in an accident is three times higher - even if those other passengers were wearing seatbelts. It's incredibly selfish.

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Cuppasoupmonster · 20/01/2023 22:56

JudgeRinderonTinder · 20/01/2023 22:55

It’s not the offence per se like I said, it’s the brazen disregard. £500 is nothing to a billionaire he wouldn’t have given a shit, so yeah, probably does think he can do what he likes.

It’s amazing what low standards people hold our government to. Just like party gate and various dodgy dealings 😂 Christ almighty. We vote for what we deserve.

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Hardly ‘getting away with doing what you want’ if you get fined for unbuckling a seatbelt for a minute is it?

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pottydimley · 20/01/2023 22:56

Keyansier · 20/01/2023 22:42

Completely agree with you. I can't believe somebody not wearing a seatbelt in a car is headline news to beat a stick with someone with, even if it is the Prime Minister. Don't the police have better things to do, like investigating tweets?🙄

Really don't care

Hexcode · 20/01/2023 22:57

Yabu

Only an absolute moron would go without a seat belt, once again proving he isn't fit to run the country

ThreeLittleDots · 20/01/2023 22:57

he probably just unbuckled for a minute to do something and got papped

No, it was filmed deliberately for a social media video.