Look on the net and see where road tax is spent, I looked last week, it will totally surprise you

@@glennjenkinson1103 Yeah, only a quarter of collected road tax gets spent on the roads; in other words, road tax is just another tax for the government to splurge aimlessly on vanity projects. What are they going to do without us cash cow motorists if they get the future that they seem to be aiming towards? They're going to have to find a lot of money from elsewhere..

Plenty of money for support of….. ukr…..

could also replace what you just said with any tax in the UK, crazy place

@@johnwootton4469 Yes, the way that they get away with it is. It is no longer "road tax" it is now excise duty, and now the money goes into the melting pot...

Good point !

Very good point.

Would you vote for a candidate with that policy?

Here here

I’d be careful about making that a law. Councils wouldn’t repair more roads, they’d close them.

Why plough money into a lost cause?

This country has had it.

Criminal leadership same as the rest of the commonwealth. Sovereignty has been sold to the unelected NGO. WEF UN and other that tell your government where your tax money is to be spent and it's not on you. It's to their pockets. How much has your gov given the WEF this year alone? Billions if it's the same as Canada. How much for Pakistani gender studies? Millions going by what Canada spent. Half of which is kicked back to the criminal politicians. Trudeau foundation money laundering in Ottawa so obvious it can be seen from London and B.C.. Some how the media just can't seem to see it. Every department is head by a minister with a corporation that informs on how to get government contracts in the department they run. Obvious kickbacks. Criminal but the media just can't see it. They brag about the crime and fraud in their linked in and facebook profiles but the media just are unable to find it. They have websites spelling it all out, how the crime works but the media is unable to find it. Seriously look up your MP's they are all doing it and bragging about it. That's why your roads are shit same as the rest of the commonwealth.

The reality Government figures show the UK economy has lost over 4pc permanently after Brexit. With all those billions, we could have put money into infrastructure.

There taking pot hole money to put in more speed ramps to f-ck our vehicles up along with give way islands.all designed to piss the motorists off.cunts.

Should sue them! So sorry for your loss

My sincere condolences for your loss. I too, have ridden on the A685 from Kendal to Tebay, and I encountered a pothole at the top end of the speed limit of the road! Fortunately, I have obviously survived! But the damage was over £3000 and I'm still fighting the council from April 2023. I have thought about jacking in riding, there's no fun having one foot in the grave!

I'm so sorry to hear this :( I hope that you and your family are as okay as can be.

It's disgusting and shameful behaviour from the council to try and quickly patch up the road. Ridiculous but sadly not surprising. I always loved the idea of riding a bike, but the state of roads in this country has put me right off.

Seems to me that our authorities use the "ROAD" to kill .

About 1 billion a day, borrowed and then given away to other countries .

What have our roads and politicians got in common? Their both 💩.

​@@PamelaD963not to other countries private corporations every one of them associated with the world economic forum it's a big circle jerk

​@@PamelaD963and they want trillions as well as 15% of net GDP of every world economic forum state/country net zero/bankrupt country starvation and destitution

The had an endless money tree under lockdowns. The government have never had a funding problem. They have always and still do have a spending problem. Got to the stage they literally aren't even given us basic services while taxing us 70p on every pound by the time it does the rounds.

W⚓'s?

It’s been spent on wars and money, laundered actually

More like WAR !!!!!

I hate the fact that the prime minister is paid £16,000 a month that's 2k more than I earn in a year

​@@cunnie84Get a better job then!

Mike, I totally agree with you. I drive that road on a regular basis and yes the potholes have been there for many months, I was actually on it a couple months ago when a motorbike had to swerve one of them or the rider would have come off. There's a humongous crater of a pothole in the middle of the road as you enter Northchapel ( the next village going north from Petworth), there were traffic lights and men filling another hole in, in the same area a few weeks back but for some stupid reason they didn't fill the big crater in. I hate to say this but that will cause a big accident soon.

Probably his viagra.

My old dad is 85 and he's just sold his hemi engined SRT Jeep... Ironically he recently got his first speeding ticket in a borrowed, (while he awaits his next monster), small family electric car... 😂

@@neddyseagoon9601trackhawk?

@@N1XHL Cherokee... About 5 seconds 0 to 60... A drag racer did it in 4 seconds if memory serves...

@@neddyseagoon9601 fuckin NIIIICCCEEE

And incorrect versions of events as it turns out.

"We can't fix dangerous roads, or there'll be no money left for us to decolonize the Meals-on-Wheels service" 🙄

& when they do "fix" it the tar they use is rubbish.... when pot holes form the entire road surface is already compromised.

Councils are funding nett zero. Much more important.....😕 (Sarcasm)

Typical brain dead comment from a typical brain dead Daily Fail reader 🤦

Horse and wagon?

Things will only get worse as long as people continue voting for the same old LibLabCon uniparty. We need more independent MP's who might actually give a damn about their local area.

​@@fenrir7969The politics is just a theater. There is no way to fix this through voting. Mark my words

Because they can launder money so much easier by pretending to give it to the Ukraine.

A proxy war is a bargain as opposed to a boots on the ground war , don't be a Ostrich .

Not sure why Geoff didn't give you a heart mate , you are fucking spot on . I hope doesn't believe the US bullshit about caring for the Ukrainian people . Come on Geoff don't be scared , unless you believe ukraine should get priority over the UK citizens ......

Amen, Exactly, and it is the same here in the southern Eu tooo.

Balloon Wood crossroads on the A609 between Nottingham and Ilkeston is now so bad that you can forget lane discipline. Cars veer at you from all directions just to avoid the big, deep potholes. Anything less than a 4x4 has to crawl through at 10-15mph.

Canada is the same

Correct

You forgot that it was also an ICE vehicle. BBC headline would have led with that.

The only problem with your assertions is that the BBC have reported on it and avoided any and all speculation at this point. And rightly so. The pothole allegations are nothing more than that at this point. Whether the deceased swerved to avoid a pot hole is speculation. Traducing the BBC is unfounded and conflating this crash into the state of roads (poor) is unhelpful.

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🧠🤝 yup 🤮

That's the plan I think

I was driving along the A14 earlier on today, The east bound carriageway @ near to Spaldwick, doesn't have pot holes🤔, there is no top layer of tarmac atall on the over taking lane. Cars & vans have to swerve towards the centre reservation to avoid the missing road / tarmac. This is going to cause a fatality one day very soon😢😢😳🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧

Have you ever considered voting them out?

@@davidvanderklauw Voting doesn't work😡, if it did🤔, they would abolish it☹️. The way to go 🤔, is like our wounderfull nabours 🤔, The French Public🇨🇵🇨🇵, they sort it out good & proper 😁🇬🇧🇬🇧

About on a par with some of the Italian roads we're currently "enjoying". Although to be fair, the Italian ones are a bit better. French roads, brilliant, Swiss, great too.

No

Exactly 👍

Course not 😒

There will ALWAYS be potholes regardless how good maintenance is, the problem is two-fold. One is the problem with the lack of road maintenance, the other is if a driver is that incompetent he should not be a driver. Period.

​@@truxton1000thats 99 percent of road users off the roads then. Most of them have no skill whatsoever, skill isn't required to pass the test.

The government is entirely to blame. Westminster government has cut central funding to local councils so much that they are going broke - and not just one or two profligate ones either. Broke councils will not prioritise road repairs even if lives may be at stake.

Your last sentence is the reason for the downgrade.

Yep our goverment is more interested in killing people in the Ukraine and middle east. ?

The UN decided when they wrote Agenda 21/30

No, we are to blame for putting responsibility in strangers. This applies to all aspects of life.

People with expensive cars drive the slowest on bad roads.

80 years neglect more like !!.

@@d.y.8276 Yep. Just ask Rod Stewart. He had to repair his own road as it was undrivable with his Ferrari.

and the car was white, had a p;enis so was therefore all kinds of wrong

Have you ever looked at the clearance under a porsche? He could have hit that at 15 mi an hour and it likely would have caused severe damage. So in this case it doesn't matter how fast he was going because if he had to swerve to miss it obviously he was going into the oncoming traffic. There is no excuse for road conditions like that. It is purely the fault of the government's misdirection of funds.

Same everywhere these days I’m afraid 😤 Got to spend billions on illegal immigrants and forget wars but can’t afford to look after your own people

Fair comment!

The roads in Ireland (especially Dublin ) are a joke . By design which is the annoying part. Pointless one ways , bicycle lanes and bus lanes the size of motorways with a tiny little car lane restricting traffic for no reason whatsoever. I’m so f””king sick of it

Roads in Ireland are brilliant mate. 😂

Bingo. They'll give ILLEGAL Immigrants £180 a week and food&board, but they won't fix our f***** roads being damaged by the strain of EVs (being 56% heavier than their ice counterparts) and lack of maintenance.

of course, them and their mega rich banker mates/masters pockets.....

I know, that’s because council taxes to repair the roads

Road duty is a tax on cars - doesn't mean the government use that money to maintain the roads.

The issue is that the council can be sued, just like a business but the cost is ultimately footed by taxpayers. Nobody is ever held personally liable for anything they do (or don't do, as in the case of road repairs).

@@fenrir7969 The cost of getting your vehicle repaired, or burying a loved one falls on the taxpayer too....

They blatantly lie about the maintenance of roads too. I once claimed for damage to a wheel, rather than admit the problem and pay up, they sent a wad of evidence that the road had recently passed its 6-monthly inspection. It clearly hadn't been inspected properly, as a look at Street view confirmed. They subsequently paid up.

Yea speed humps that damage the ev batteries 😂

Me too, I nearly got bucked off…50% pothole 50% inexperience 🫣

You CAN sue your local council if they already know about the pothole and have it listed for repair. It is negligent of them to leave a serious road hazard that they are aware of without coning it off or closing the road. Our local council has a web page pot hole reporting thing... I sued and won for two wheels and tyres. They tried to fob me off, but once they were served with a county court summons, they wrote me a cheque.

@@fredfred2363 In theory you can... you need a lot of tenacity, time, patience and perseverance to even get acknowledged. I suspect many victims don't get far.

the point of the investigation is to work out who foots the bill! In all likelihood it will be all of us, as the government is not insured and the likelihood is it was caused by the pothole!

It has yet to be shown that a pothole was in any way involved.

​@@garethwilliams976 Commonsense will tell you that every driver is now swerving on the road because of potholes, you can no longer drive in the UK without without looking like a pissed up crazy. FACT 😮

Maybe if central government didn't cut the money that went to local councils - they would have the money to fix the roads. I live in Tory territory and the roads here are absolute shit - blame the government - and then get rid of them.

@@simoningate2056 they had the money, but spent it on net stupid so they can keep track on people. 15 min city's is their end game

We have huge numbers of manhole, drain covers etc in Buckinghamshire where the tarmac has been cut back 6 inches or so from the metal edge. I don't understand why they have been left like that, as for any other break in the surface, when the elements get in the road just disintegrates.

@@flatlyna2223 Damaged caused by this lack of repair makes the council liable for any damage caused by the road surface, or lack there of. No work should ever be started without the materials to finish the job, also known bad surface roads should have signage and highly visible paint sprayed around the concerning road degradation. Simple fixes for little outlay can help reduce serious damage to vehicles and injury/death of road users. It really is unforgivable.

It is now closer to 10 million a day when the Rwanda costs are taken account of! Even more when the French bribes are taken into consideration. (£500+ million).

Those in power, the same people who own the media, want you to blame it on immigrants. The truth is there's not enough money for us plebs because they are taking it all for themselves and their mates. Look how everything that was owned publicly, ie. it belonged to all of us, has been sold off cheap and now it costs more for a worse service. Royal Mail, waste management, healthcare, etc etc. £7m a day to help very vulnerable people is pennies for us. Get angry at the good old chaps stealing quite literally billions!

Put them to work fixing the roads? I bet they are more skilled than the native bodgers.

@@squibys2262why bother making that comment it will never be implemented, we need positive antigovernment action.

Why couldn’t u put a picture of the pothole up.

Not sure if you live in Wales but the roads there are much better in this respect than England.

I'd assume the way the councils waste money inc backhanders that money would repair about 5 potholes.

Roads are rubbish UK over by design

@@garethwilliams976no they are not.

@martynsmith3317 > £34.4 million spent in Wales implementing the > unwanted 20 mph default speed limit Unwanted by selfish snowflakes, welcomed by the sensible.

You can claim for the damage from the council but it’s frustrating nonetheless

They don't want us out of our cars, this narrative is spun to make us mad and stubborn about holding onto our cars, the govt make £12-14bn per year in VAT alone on new car sales, then you've got motoring taxes, fuel, tax on your insurance, VED. They don't want us out of our cars, if anything they want us to keep buying cars more often.

@@SenszR Not entirely true. You can only claim from the council if the damage has not previously been reported. If the council is aware but not got around to fixing it then they refuse to pay out. A number of motorists in Nottinghamshire have fallen foul of this bizarre state of affairs and consequently had to rely on their own insurance.

@@TheRealWindlePoons True, here if the council have sprayed a circle round it you can't claim.

@@TheRealWindlePoons that's a p take. Is there anywhere you could direct me to read into this?

You are. My sons Father died after a getting thrown from his bicycle due to a pothole in Cirencester. He suffered a bleed on the brain and that was that.

Submit your evidence to your local council...

That is the irony of modern democracy. No government can risk doing what needs doing as it will be unpopular. For instance, running a deficit, no gov can really change that as it will cause cuts to schools, policing, armed forces etc

​@QuotidianStupidity the government is bankrupt. It is in debt millions of pounds. In debt to who?

It’s almost like they’re being incredibly short sighted with costs, crap materials etc. because they only care about the condition of things in the current election year 🙃 Who cares if the roads fall apart again once labour are in?

Council or utility company? Many of the latter have the right to dig up when they want and re-instate poorly

Don't be silly, mate.

If the council doesn't have the money because the government has cut their budgets - how is it the councillors fault? Maybe it is the Ministry of Transport or the Chancellor of the Exchequer or possibly fishy Rishi.

20 years back when i move to uk from a poor country in eastern europe ,i envy you for the nice motorways u had...sadly right now uk look like my country in the 90` s,no offence

When I drove for my first time to UK 12 years ago from Spain, I was in a cultural shock for how different things were. 10 miles after, the real shock came as my car passed over the biggest pothole I had seen in my life. Unfortunately, it wasn't the worst one I saw in my five years in the UK. I've driven through many European countries and even one South-American one, and none of them has their roads as bad as the ones of UK. It is really sad, you have a really lovely country that is falling in pieces.

Try driving in Belgium or Rome. The roads there are shocking.

The country is pot/shit hole

Cheap lazy reporting is why.

sounds like media turned it into anti-speeding/anti-age/anti-car

Strawmen anyone?

​@@worldhello1234 Got to shovel that straw into every crevasse that you think exists!😂

Good point

​@@worldhello1234 uhh since the 70s or 80s cars have gotten way heavier and the increased damage to the roads is well documented

Roads in the UK have been in that state since before the EV craze. I stayed for five years in your country since 2012 and since the very beginning I saw the poor maintenance of the roads. I will never forget my first pothole in the M2 just after leaving Dover, it was nearly as deep as half of my wheel!

It seems a lot of bad decisions were made by the government in the 90's.

council budgets have been cut by 50% since 2010. this is austerity; this is what people voted for. deaths.

Highways are reponsible for all main roads, local councils are still responsible for local roads and adopted local roads

@@stewartellinson8846 Yet councils still manage to find money for such "worthy" causes as BLM, climate change and numerous well-paid non-jobs such as "Consultancy Support for a Strategic Reset." Funny, that.

@@stewartellinson8846 nobody voted for it, we the voters do not get to make such decisions....still hasn't put councils off paying bloated saleries to the high paid people, plus massive pensions etc...oh and lets not forget the diversity officers, the rainbow crossings and all the other wasteful crap...

Yea they all have to go back

No it doesn't. council budgets have been cut by 50% since 2010. this is austerity; this is what people voted for. deaths.

@@stewartellinson8846 Go and read the parliamentary report from 11th March 2024. It's astounding that someone could be so unaware of the current situation, despite the home office and parliament posting the figures into public. It's only native people who have had their services cut. Like road repairs. If you float over on a dinghy, everything is free, including accommodation that most would have to save up for all year, as a holiday treat, for just a week or two in the year. Or you jump to the front of the social housing queue, that again you pay for, but will never have access. In fact, councils are building new social housing for them, as we speak, that you specifically will.never have access to. And you get to pay for it, with no choice over how the money could be spent, like repairing the crumbling roads.

It was exactly the same when my 21 year old nephew was killed in a motorbike accident. The MSM seem to enjoy twisting the facts.

That’s why the government have renamed it car tax Bro.

How many more like this before they realise its not just a danger to a car but a danger to lives. Utterly crazy

It is, they're just doing a terrible job of it and lining their pockets.

😂😂😂😂😂. Totally false. The government is 99% white and born in uk. You want to blame the blacks for all your problems. Deep down your racist and salty

Scotland, Wales and NI are ruled by English people - not just England

Stop blaming the Scott's

@@holymoly40 who is Scott?

This! You will own nothing and be happy, ref WEF.... Say goodby to cash too, they will make it in practice impossible to own and drive a private car and they will have 100% control on all your life, fascist nightmare.

yes potholes to keep everyone's speed down, this article a warning !

Yes it's my idea ❤❤😂

And speeding

My local council love paying out for alphabet people's rainbow crossings, and neglect pot holes.

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The 'crater' on the Dukes Head roundabout must have been there for over a year now and the council show no signs of attempting any repairs. They do however seem to like closing every other road for 'repairs' that seem to take ages but really seem more designed to make motorists lives more difficult.

Even if it is a pothole the local council is liable once it has been reported.

Suing wont bring the man back to life.Roads need to be fixed, some potholes are too deep for cars, what about driving a motorbike.

The trick is to record everything (photo and video) on the day of the incident so they can't lie like that. Of course if you're rushed to hospital unconscious you'll have to hope that others get that evidence for you.

Northampton Council tried that with me after a big hole wrecked my car tyre, but someone else had also hit the hole a week after me who damaged both front tyres and suspension, so I argued contrary to their site statement that it was officially being fixed on x date (which somehow erases all previous incidents) I could prove, referencing their own guidelines for repair timelines for x size hole that it had not been done within their own guidelines and it was a failure of procedure and also negligence to safety, people had been reporting it since at least 6 months prior (Google Street View also proved it had been there long term|). Once I pushed back they passed me over to their insurance department, currently waiting to hear back from their insurance company for a pay out, expected by 29 May. It's unreal that if they repair it quickly after the fact of an incident, and in your case an accident you got lucky with, it makes every single incident void.