U turn needed for road signs, says MEP

20mph road sign

Plans to replace some British road signs with standardised European ones are "more sinister controlling EU moves," says MEP Paul Nuttall.

"They want to control and nanny our every movement and employ armies of pen pushers - at our expense - to come up with more and more restrictive ideas.

"This proposal is designed to tie in with vehicle technology which can read road signs and talk to the driver. It follows earlier plans for the mandatory installation of black boxes in all cars to record 20 types of data including recent vehicle movements and vehicle speed," said Mr Nuttall, UKIP deputy leader.

"These new European Commission plans involve replacing our red circle speed signs and no entry signs on A roads with signs which would be standard across the 28 member states.

"It is nonsense and would needlessly serve to confuse our motorists. It would also be a colossal waste of money, as would their other ridiculous plan of standardising road markings. The cost of repainting would run into hundreds of millions of pounds.

"The EU has been heading in the wrong direction since its inception and the one ones unable to read those signs are the bureaucrats and those politicians endorsing them.

"It's the writing on the wall they should be reading - which is pointing to the exit sign for countries such as ours which want out."