00:00 And behind this decision and this course of action lies those lives.
00:08 It is the lives of people who will be saved.
00:11 It is the lives of people who would otherwise be caught up in the road traffic accidents
00:17 which will not happen when people are travelling at 20 miles an hour, but do happen when people
00:23 travel at 30.
00:26 People across the country won't be able to receive the services that they rely on thanks
00:29 to your government's actions.
00:31 So will you commit as the 160,000 plus strong petition asks you to and rescind your disastrous
00:39 20 mile an hour scheme?
00:42 No, Salif.
00:43 Well, that answers that.
00:46 Clearly the First Minister is standing firm and his party are no different.
00:49 It seems the clear divide over the issue is the cost on the budget for the Tories and
00:53 the cost of lives for Labour.
00:54 But a recent tweet from the Council General caused a bit of a stir, accusing the Tories
00:59 of being happy about people dying as a result of road traffic incidents in Wales.
01:03 And it's worth repeating, Tories so happy to see people and particularly children killed
01:11 and injured on our roads.
01:14 That surely is an acceptable language to use when trying to engage in a policy position
01:22 that we have a disagreement over.
01:24 To say that we would be particularly pleased to see children killed and injured is not
01:31 acceptable is it, First Minister?
01:32 Well, as I understand the Council General took the tweet down immediately and has since
01:38 acknowledged that he would not have expressed it in that way had he been in a position to
01:44 give it further consideration.
01:47 I'm grateful that that tweet was taken down, but I didn't hear an apology to the people
01:52 that it was aimed at.
01:54 And ultimately it was a very offensive tweet to say the least.
01:59 Speaking of tweets, Andrew R.T.
02:00 Davis, who rightfully can see the massive online support for repealing the 20 mile an
02:04 hour in the shape of the record-breaking petition, did manage to put his foot in it a little
02:08 bit when he posted a poll on his Twitter with almost 20,000 respondents, 57% of whom ended
02:14 up supporting the idea of 20 miles an hour speed limits, somewhere close to 11,500 people.
02:20 Some Labour politicians have also been clear to point out the fact that a blanket 20 mile
02:24 an hour change is false, with hundreds of exceptions across the country.
02:28 Of the debate from the Welsh Tories, for example, trotting out this line repeatedly that it's
02:35 a blanket ban when we know that there will be exceptions, and that is part of a pattern,
02:41 First Minister, a pattern coming from the top, from the leader, Andrew R.T.
02:47 Davis.
02:48 Needless to say, this policy is incredibly divisive, possibly the most in the history
02:53 of the Senate.
02:54 Plenty of people are still not happy, but clearly the massive number of signatures on
02:58 the petition certainly isn't the full story.
03:01 James P. Twotkins, Local TV.
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