Should you pay a speeding fine from Spain once you're back in the UK?

 No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!

He's lucky just getting a fine, and not the comfy chair roflmfao!!!!!

corruption is international

Corruption is international with some countries a lot worse than others and it is particularly disappointing when those countries are in the 'first world,' and in the early stages of democracy.   An editorial in El Pais on Saturday stated (excuse the absence of accents etc): 'El desempleo masivo, los drasticos recortes presupuestarios y, sobre todo, los numerosos casos de corrupcion y mala gestion de lo publico dejan el campo abonado para propuestas populistas con trampa.'  So, educated Spaniards are in no doubt about the extent of the problem and see corruption and 'bad management' of the public purse as serious problems which could affect this new democracy.  Anyone who doesn't think this knows nothing about what is going on in Spain.

Is evading or helping to evade a fine not corrupt?

No distinction

are we still  flogging this Horse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the horse laid down and died, but not the rider lol

Are you still watching this horse lol ?

will herbalist respond?

Just to put some data around the corruption debate, the yearly Corruptions Perception Index (published by Transparency International) lists Spain as the 31st least corrupt Country (between Cyprus and Botswana). Not surprisingly, Somalia comes out as the most corrupt.

The least corrupt is New Zealand and the UK is rated as the the 16th least corrupt (jointly with Austria and Barbados). Most of the Scandanavian countries appear in the top.

The index rates countries on a scale from 1 (highly corrupt) to 10 (very clean)

Denmark gets a score of 9.5 with Somalia scoring 1.0.

The UK gets 7.8 and Spain is on 6.2.

In a slightly different category, I see that people who Flog Dead Horses only scored 0.2

haydngj

I was looking at the daily postings, when suddenly I see that this posting had almost 140 replys, so I got in to let all of you know that it is time to let this dead horse go, but oviouysly you can not!!!! so keep on adding more.

I can make a General in 5 minutes but a good horse is hard to replace!

 whats all this dead horse business?  I thought Spain was the land of bull...............

Robert it is yes, but we're in UK hahahahahaha

 I feel sorry for Surrey.......

hahahahahahaha me too

Yes, you should definietly pay otherwise next time you visit you may not be able to hire and if you get stopped for any reason you could find yourself in real trouble.

To see how easy it is to pay with a 50% discount see this article

   kenandglen  DOT   com/blog/?p=441

I recently met the young man in question for the first time.  He said that he is sure he was not speeding.  Also, he didn't receive the fine in time to qualify for the 50% discount.  He says he has no intention of ever returning to Spain, so how are they going to get him?

The best advice so far …..is stay away .