The PC crowd stirkes again

So I just read this on the Yahoo news page:
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland should consider giving up driving on the left to reduce accidents by foreigners accustomed to right side motoring, a senior politician said on Friday.
Donie Cassidy, the leader of Ireland's upper chamber Senate, cited Sweden -- which moved to the right in 1967 -- as an example of a country that switched decades after most of Europe did.
Ireland's economic growth over the past decade has attracted tens of thousands of workers especially from central and eastern European countries. It is also a popular tourist destination for visitors from the United States.
"We have all of these people coming in from Europe and from America and (because of) the roads that they are used to driving on in their own countries it is a huge difficulty when they start driving here," Cassidy told public broadcaster RTE.
"I know when I go to America it takes me five or six days to adjust."
Motoring body the AA said the idea was "completely impractical".
As another remedy, Cassidy suggested in the Senate on Thursday that people from countries driving on the right should observe a 50 mile (80 km) per hour speed limit, compared with speeds up to 120 km permitted for Irish drivers.
Besides Ireland, many former British colonies such as India and Australia keep to the left as does Japan.

(Reporting by Andras Gergely; editing by Elizabeth Piper)

Right so i know that this wont be of much bother to bikers but I (and I'm sure many of YOU), also drive a car and this would be a right pain if it made it to Ireland as then we would almost certainly follow suit like a faithful little puppy!
I also drive a great deal in Europe and it certianly doesn't take me long to get used to driving on the "wrong" side so maybe Cassidy is a little slow!
Sorry to have to vent but it seems that these days people in authority sit around all day just trying to come up with the most ridiculous plans..... and don't even get me started on the bishop saying we should bring in elements of Muslim law!!!! WHATS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?! Don't like driving on the wrong side? Use public transport! Want Muslim law? Then move to a Muslim country!

Come one peeps lets fight for England and get rid of the PC crowd!!!!!

Heh, most of the irish population will tell them to **** off with their stupid ideas, no doubt My cousins were talking to me about this, said its a load of blocks

The cost of changing all the signs and road markings must be astronomical

Now I know that this is more than likely to never happen but its just the mentality of these people that think it'll be a great idea! I know lets all change to suit some people yet do the do the same for us? Not likely. Of course if we all rode bikes then we wouldn't need to change to left hand cars! lol

[northwind]

What's PC about it? Not everything that's stupid is automatically PC, just lots of it

LOL This is stupid! Sweden did it AGES ago when cars wernt as common and they kinda needed to since it was an island! Can you imagine them going itno northern island OMFG pileup! This is SOOOO stupid its beyond a joke. Wonder how much they got paid to come up with that S**T?

no its going to happen next year

lorries buses + motorbikes will move on the 1st jan

if its a sucess

cars on the 31st

Is it just me, or are we experiencing a world wide "stupid politician" epidemic? When in Rome...

Originally Posted by blue curvy jester

no its going to happen next year

lorries buses + motorbikes will move on the 1st jan

if its a sucess

cars on the 31st

ROFL

Originally Posted by blue curvy jester

no its going to happen next year

lorries buses + motorbikes will move on the 1st jan

if its a sucess

cars on the 31st

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha your humor is right up my street.... Bet that the bloke that came up with this great idea wouldn't see the funny side to that but just sit blankly staring puzzled as to why everyone thiks its funny!!!!

And I bet they get paid far too much!!!!

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

LOL This is stupid! Sweden did it AGES ago when cars wernt as common and they kinda needed to since it was an island! Can you imagine them going itno northern island OMFG pileup! This is SOOOO stupid its beyond a joke. Wonder how much they got paid to come up with that S**T?

I'm back and forward over the border sometimes 3-4 times a week to southern Ireland,can you picture the border crossing.Would be like SCALEXTRIC.