HMRC want to be included in the list of approved bodies/people who can exceed speed limits when carrying out covert surveillance operations. I hope it does not get approval BBC News - HM Revenue and Customs wants power to break speed limits
Just a small semantical query... How, exactly do they define "covert" if they are exceeding the speed limit while engaged in it?
It's not April already, is it?!!?! I can understand mine rescue, forest fire fighting and organ transport services getting dispensation to break the speed limits, but the HMRC?! Apart from the fact that nothing the HMRC does is a case of 'life and death' (to quote Stephen Hammond), the fact that they will be covert means that they won't have blues-and-twos on whilst exceeding the limits, therefore endangering ordinary road users. If the HMRC get the nod, I'm sure as hell going to be doing a lot of 'covert surveillance' when out on the bike!
They'll never get approval. It's meant for life or death emergency services only. Even a doctor on call with a flashing green light would have to go to court to prove mitigating services if caught.
Do you know what, Those bsat=r%ds have had enough money out of me and my family in the past, and are totally inept at getting my tax right that they should include me in the list of employees exempt from speeding seeing as I seem to do their job every year. My old man, who was the prefect gentleman seldom let lose but mention HMRC and the words you would hear were. Bunch of C*^nts. I tend to agree with him. God bless his soul.
