The low-IQ mentality here is “the slower, the safer.”
They are incapable of handling even slightly complex thought.
Why not just make it zero? What could be safer than that?
That mentality is not limited to the UK. It’s alive and well here in the USA. Florida just passed a law that defines “super speeders” as anyone going more than 70 mph over the speed limit OR going more than 100mph. While that’s 30mph above the max Florida speed limit what’s magic about 100? Is 99 not all that bad, but 100 immediately much worse? Morons and jackasses aching to control everything. Btw. I have no problem with the 70 over part, it having driven on FL interstates 100 is only 15 over the average I e observed. And Texas has a speed limit of 85. If 85 works for interstates in TX what’s wrong with the rest of the country?