There is little doubt that Britain’s Labour government is very much on the nose and anyone who rates them to win the next election must be doing some very serious hallucinogenic drugs. Every story that I read about that government shows just how much Gordon Brown and his fellows are just disassembling into a despicable rabble full of arrogance and hubris. This little indecent is just one of many where Labour members just don’t care any more.
Harriet Harman with her Ford Fiesta, believed to be the car she crashed
According to police sources, Ms Harman is being investigated for driving without due care and attention, driving while illegally using a mobile phone and failing to stop after an accident, the most serious of the three offences.
A police source told The Mail on Sunday that Ms Harman’s car collided with a vehicle parked at the side of the road, causing a loud crash, which was heard by several bystanders.
She stopped her own car in the road and it was at this point that witnesses say she ended her phone conversation.
Sources said the witness who was pointedly rebuffed after trying to speak to Ms Harman is a neighbour of the damaged car’s owner.
Normally, Ms Harman has a silver, chauffeur-driven Toyota Prius but she has recently been seen driving a red Ford Fiesta.
Under the 1988 Road Traffic Act, any driver involved in a collision with another vehicle is required by law to stop and give their name and address, as well as details of the vehicle’s owner and the vehicle’s registration.
Any driver who does not give their details at the time must then report the accident to the police.
A senior police source said: ‘Ms Harman was due to be questioned by officers last week but because of the Labour Party conference, it is believed they have delayed speaking with her until later this week.
If the witnesses are correct then it shows a minister of the crown breaking the law on two rather serious counts, driving a motor vehicle whilst using a mobile phone, but more seriously leaving the scene of an accident without leaving her details. Now in less dire times (for the Labour Government) this would be a career ending scandal but when their ship is sinking so fast I tend to think that this scandal will not surprise anyone in the UK. But It does make clear the very valid reasons why using a mobile phone or portable device while driving is actually an offence both here and in the UK, I suppose that Harmon was lucky that she was negligent in a suburban street rather than on the motorway because who knows how serious the accident could have been had she been say, hmm, tweeting traffic reports?
There is something horribly sad about the facile uses that device addicts make of their electronic masters, and obviously they can get away with having a fix in the car most of the time, but just occasionally they will be distracted from the driving task at just the wrong time and then it could be fatal. These poor sad people need treatment just as much as heroin addicts do…. But there is no such thing as electronic methadone.
Cheers Comrades
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but more seriously leaving the scene of an accident without leaving her details.
Iain, the pedant in me can’t help but point out that she hit a parked car.
In other words it was driverless & empty. With whom should she have left her details?
The law in the UK seems much the same as over here in this instance, i.e. if you hit another vehicle and the owner is not there it’s okay to leave the scene and report it to the police later. How do you know she didn’t?
That said, she does seem an arrogant air-head.
Iain, why are comments appearing here one hour before people have said them? Is there something wrong with your clocks in Qld? It’s 12.45 pm right now.
See, I told ya.
The traffic act both here and in the UK does require that an indecent like the one in the article should be reported to the police but it does appear that Harman did not actually do so.
The answer is very simple Sock Puppet, up here in Queensland we don’t have “pretend time” at any time during the year but you poor deluded southerners do.
The traffic act both here and in the UK does require that an indecent like the one in the article should be reported to the police
Did she expose herself too, Iain?
If you had daylight saving up there Iain youse would not have so much global warmening. Youse should get with it – we are getting the good weather one hour after youse have copped all the hot crap. It’s gunna snow down here this week.
Sock Puppet
the reality is that the closer that you get to the equator the less benefit there is from “Pretend time”. Quite simply we do not have much of the twilight that you southerners enjoy. For me it make no difference because I am solar powered and I get up when the sun rises no matter what time the clock says.
Go easy, SP. They appear TWO hours earlier over here.
Sure, she f#cked up.. nothing too serious but. Yet in true Leftist/Mason/Bridges/Sear style, she tried to shimmy out of it. That’s the point.
And thanks for the link!
Oops! Two hours earlier at Tizona’s, one hour after here! EEK!
Perhaps I should work on Greenwich mean time Bingbing
EEK! Two hours after at Tizona’s, one hour before here!
Could Gaia, you sexy beast, Lady Gaia, just please stop rotating? It’d solve the climate change fiasco, too.
Stonehenge Time. Accept no substitutes.
OK, well maybe Inca time.
Anything modern like we have now simply will not suffice.
Iain, it has come down to this.
You must, like you did with your car, reconstruct the ancient Chinese water clock.. Whatever time it ticks upon completion, that will be the time.
Sorry, mate. On the tail-end of a five-day mini-break. It’s called ‘chusok’. Have been near-permanently drunk since Wednesday night.
Better a tired and tipsy conservative than a dour and sober leftist as far as I am concerned Bing bing
Iain, Bing is making less sense than I do and he’s a disgrace to the Crosby legend. Never post while drunk or stoned (a tip from Dad).