The 20 miles per hour speed limit has been controversial, and by and large confusing for many. But you wouldn’t quite think that a politician in the Senedd would get it wrong. But this week, a Senedd member has been officially reprimanded for calling it a blanket policy.
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00:00The infamous 20mph speed limit has been in place for over a year now, and has proved
00:06incredibly divisive and is still causing issues to this day. Thousands of people have spoken
00:12out against it in the form of online petitions, and there have been talks of looking over
00:16and relaxing the policy. The latest chapter of the saga is a Senate member has been officially
00:22reprimanded for calling it a blanket policy, implying that all 30mph roads are now 20mph,
00:28which is not true. Conservative MS Natasha Ashgar has been called out by politicians
00:35Watchdog for calling it a blanket rule on social media, despite herself signing off
00:39on a report saying it was not a blanket policy. She says that she makes no apology for using
00:47the phrase, and that given that 97% of 30mph roads are reverted to 20mph, the term blanket
00:53is a fair description, and that she was simply standing up for her constituents.