Britian to monitor every journey of every car.

[KillerPollo]

Okay, which three weird sickos voted yes?

Problaly some Voyeuristic pigs who like being on Reality TV

[David S]

Seems to me like a determined criminal could simply alter a license plate to make a new number, or if he's really innovative make a rotating mounting bracket with several plates on it, like James Bond maybe.

We have an absolutely huge amount of cameras over here already (you really do have to see it to believe it) and no one of a criminal nature really bothers. Just doesn't occur to them that they can be spotted pretty easily. And this wouldn't either; the media coverage has been practically non-existant.

HMMM. Makes me wonder if we have them here and just don't know about it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Thats an urban myth. There are a few thousand around the country, which if you consider the totality of the British road network, is really not that many. At most, there is one every three towns around home and there is only one that I can place in Oxford.

Maybe it's just the West Midlands then
Either I'm paranoid or there's a disturbing amount here; usually new ones which are smaller and harder to spot (don't really *mind* gatso's much. Except for when they hide them behind bushes. Bastards) There's a couple just south of Shrewsbury that seem to have been put there entirely for the purposes of a police retirement fund...

Yeah, I won't be sad to see the back of West Mercia police force if they are merged away...

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True but it *really* isn't worth it. People that go into that sort of thing are those irritating scally types. Round here anyway.

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I bet West Mercia aren't

And if they *say* they are they're probably lying

[Serenity Now]

We have a lot (and you have to see them to believe them) of speed cameras over here.

Oh, and there are plenty of ways to get hold of "other" car registration plates if you want to get hold of them. Just find a dodgy garage, you hardly need any determination.

Very easy indeed, I live round the corner from what was the "dodgiest garage in Britain", well that was according to a TV show...