Spies are
to be allowed to speed under changes to the UK motoring laws. Spies are
to be allowed to speed under changes to the UK motoring laws.
MI5 and MI6 officers currently have
to abide by the rules of the road even if national security is threatened.
But they will be given the same
exemptions as police vehicles, ambulances and fire engines by transport
minister Robert Goodwill.
I certainly wasn’t aware that even
in cases were national security was threatened our spies had to obey the speed
limit, thankfully that barmy law has been corrected and now when the country is
in danger they can get from A to B as quickly as they can and not sit behind
the wheel checking they’re not speeding.
James Bond would be very different
if the old law was factored in, the bad guy would speed off and Bond would jump
in his car to chase, realise he’s in a built up area and so can’t go more than
30mph, be forced to chug along for miles until he gets to a motorway, by which
point the bad guy’s already half way across Europe. I don’t think it would have
been anywhere near as successful had this been the case.
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