To think the Rishi seatbelt nonsense is just tedious?

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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 🙄

I'm not sure he did break the law as when travelling under protection it can be safer not to.

Irrelevant but taxi drivers also don't have to wear seatbelts when driving passengers

Unusual comment for someone who claims not to be a tory.

Except that it never happened so you don't know what the reaction would be.
Have you considered speculating what would happened had Jermey Corbyn been the transgressor?

Terrible typos

Really couldn’t give a fuck

Well I said the same thing when they were trying to string up Keir for having a takeaway in covid times to be fair

Not if you’re capable of objective thinking.

Really? I don't know anyone who would be stupid enough not to wear a seatbelt.

Op, have you acknowledged the fact that it wasn’t just for a second and was him deliberately being filmed for a media soundbite? Like others have said, he just comes across as a fecking idiot in doing so. Surely you can see the issue there?

The PM should abide by the laws of the country. That’s just basic surely?

Also agree about the selfishness of not wearing one in the back.

I do think it was really stupid though to film it without thinking “oh hang on, I’d better not be filmed breaking the law” - surely someone should have pointed it out to him? Plus also for his own safety it’s pretty daft.

Totally agree.

I haven't. Back in the day, before seatbelts were compulsory....in fact there were no rear seatbelts....I was in the back seat of a car that was involved in a major accident that resulted in my being in a coma for 3 weeks. I now a facial disfigurement and minor brain injury.as a result. Rear seatbelt rules are there for a reason...but IU guess some people are too stupid to work that out for themselves hey OP.

Also, how do we know he doesn’t do it “on the regular”?

*I guess

I haven’t done it “in the last month” as a poster suggested but then don’t travel in the back of cars if I can possibly help it - but if I was in a taxi I’d wear a seat belt as it’s the law, it’s safer for me and safer for the driver if I’m behind them.

These are the exemptions to the seat belt law. Travelling under protection isn't one of them

When you don't need to wear a seat belt
You don’t need to wear a seat belt if you’re:

a driver who is reversing, or supervising a learner driver who is reversing
in a vehicle being used for police, fire and rescue services
a passenger in a trade vehicle and you’re investigating a fault
driving a goods vehicle on deliveries that is travelling no more than 50 metres between stops
a licensed taxi driver who is ‘plying for hire’ or carrying passengers
Medical exemptions
Your doctor may say you don’t have to wear a seat belt for a medical reason. They’ll give you a ‘Certificate of Exemption from Compulsory Seat Belt Wearing’. You must:

keep this in your vehicle
show it to the police if you’re stopped

That list of exemptions is interesting. Why taxi drivers?

Apparently it's because of the risk of a passenger using the seatbelt to try to strangle the driver.

I never drive without a seatbelt and won't drive others unless they buckle up.

It may seem like a minor crime when you arrive from A to B safely but it's not minor when a collision does occur.

I knew someone years ago who flew through the windscreen of a van due to no seatbelt. Amazingly he survived but was very injured and in hospital a long time.

I realise crashes are often fatal seatbelt or not but please give yourself and your passengers the best odds possible.

Also being rich and high profile won't save you in an accident. Has he never heard of Princess Diana?

Lancashire Police have posted a rather smug statement regarding a 42 year old man from London being fined for not wearing a seat belt in a moving vehicle.
Shame they aren't so keen on sorting out the nightly racing of young men in high powered cars that speed through our town on a nightly basis. They know it Goe on and they know who they are and yet it continues unabated

This

He's meant to run the country but he's too fucking stupid to know he has to wear a seatbelt in a moving car.

Yeah, it does bother me. Yet again we have to old Tory 'oversight': again.

Absolutely spot on, Princess Diana may of well survived if she had her seat belt on.
Her Bodyguard did .

The Conservative party, in a House of Commons debate on toughening up seatbelt laws, I November 2022:

"The Department for Transport (DfT) knows that in 2021, in 30% of all car occupant fatalities recorded, seat belts were not worn. This is unacceptably high, and we have been considering options to tackle this including the potential merits of introducing penalty points"

The Conservative party, today, in reaction to their leader being caught not wearing a seatbelt:

"LancsPolice do an amazing job, but I’m sure their time is better spent investigating serious crime".

So which is it? Is not wearing a seatbelt a serious matter that needs to be clamped down on or is it a waste of time clamping down on it? They can't have it both ways and they can't have it as one rule for them and another for us. If he was Rishi Sunak, minimum wage office clerk, clocked with no seat belt on his way to work then the excuse of "it was a momentary lapse of judgement" wouldn't get him out of being issued with a fine.

As a reminder, this is his second FPN making him the first ever MP to be an acknowledged law breaker both as Chancellor and as PM. He doesn't give a shit about the law because rules are for the masses not the masters.

What? No everyone hasn’t not put their seatbelt on in the last couple of months! Most people wear a seatbelt for every single journey of their lives.

It also puts the other passengers in the car at risk.