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While I'm not a committed follower of the Green Party, a 20mpg speed limit for residential areas in Hawkinge is long overdue.

Question is how it will be enforced

Well yes I suppose that when you have no chance whatsoever of attaining power of any description you have free rein to spout off nonsense that characterises the green beardy weirdies. Along with the rest of the rubbish they put out concerning saving the planet (please excuse the supressed laughter) and depopulating the planet it just about sums up the inane idiocy of these people.

They should get out more.

If we had some common sense nobody would drive through residential areas faster than 20mph.

Who would want their child of loved one injured or killed by a speeding motorist?

Problem is, so many people lose all common sense when they get behind the wheel. Cocooned in their metal cage, safe from the outside world and free to do their own thing, they drive fast, play music at 130 decibels and even pick their noses, thinking no one can see them. Yes, it would be good to have a 20mph speed limit but I doubt very much if many agree with me, looking at the speed many motorists drive in the village.

This is a small sample of some of the many ideas, currently being forwarded appropriately through myspace:-

My first is recycled disability equipment re-distribution scheme and is currently in distribution around medical bases in Folkestone.

Others I would like to see happen soon:-

Training schemes for events, parks, public areas and conservation area clean up.

I would personally enjoy training in this to train others!?)

Local 'well' fairs. Every ecological, environmental, community support group in an area on an annual local provision for welfare awareness event.

Campaign to get recycling/environmental awareness officers in major institutions.

Schools/colleges Arts and craft/invention in recycling competitions across the uk and recycling workshops

Workshop/workspaces to increase skills in renovation/restoration/mending and fixing/art and crafts in recycling. This would be also a community centre with outreach teams for access/life facilitation through storage, portability etc. It is Support, training, enterprising, inspirational, therapeutic and much more. Lending itself to retraining skills to persons of partial ability, offering support and facilitation to enhancing their lives perhaps into a self tailored worthwhile and/or re-employable status .

Recycled storage facility- Packaging and storage from envelopes and files, pill box to blanket box! For most people waste includes things thrown for the lack of space, storage or the facility to keep! Peoples useful articles can be a lifeline for access to a person of restricted movement! (See 'Dig your own hole' poem on myspace address below-in the blog section)!?

Recycled friendly notices with waterproof carrier bag dispensers for litter picking/dog clean up bags, with them, recycled bins of recycled wood in areas of beauty, alleys, parks etc (larger areas having recycling containers for separation) Local communities could be brought together and through the media, parish councils, village hall clubs etc. advertise special days workshops in arts, community and environmental welfare. Perhaps even producing art installations encouraging the ethos of environmental responsibility in a thought provoking manner and environmentally friendly waste facilitation of course!

And just off the top of my head! Councils are dealing with deficits in their income in the next years and are hoping to recoup it in parking fines partly! Bring in a trained army of environmental/litter/recycling police instead as compulsory re-training for unemployed and fine litter bugs! ;-) .Those too proud to consider litter picking as a social responsibility would soon be back in employment!!!!!!? ;-)

Would very much welcome comment and/or this sent to any ethical organisations interested in a disabled freelance and voluntary scheme developer?

Jackie Luckman

spidersnetwork

20mph limit maybe but before that get these mobile phone maniacs off our roads. Recently whilst driving in Hawkinge I luckily managed to get out of the way of a lady driver in a 4x4 using her phone after she completely misjudged a right turn. Then no more than two minutes later encountered another vehicle being driven at excessive speed around a roundabout in the village. It too was a 4x4 with a lady gripping the wheel with her left hand and the other holding a phone to her ear. ( And before anybody says anything - no I don't have anything against 4x4s or lady drivers - its just how it happened)