Road pricing - e-petition

adamnreeves · Post by **adamnreeves** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:25 pm

Sign and pass it on. it only takes a minute.

The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to
purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.
The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC,
the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery
driver.
A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in
one month.
On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will
know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been
going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect a
NIP with your monthly bill.
If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the car
driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

Please pass this on to anyone who owns a car/motorcycle. It affects them.

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HairbearTE · Post by **HairbearTE** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:59 pm

Signed

I notice Nick Faldo has signed too! LOL!
To be fair this has to be a step too far. Firstly i dont see how they are gonna prove who's driving, just like gatsos and secondly why the **** should we pay for privalege of being tracked by them? Im gonna set mine up so it runs in an old case and put it on a plane to Edinburgh! I'd love to see them try to bill me for 400 over the national limit....

Post by **katanaman** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:22 pm

Hey don't send it here they might bill me instead

I will just stick mine in the drive or the car will develop some odd kind of radio interference, damn unsuppressed HT leads.
To be honest I cant see it happen and if it does the way the gov set up computer systems/databases it wont be reliable.

Post by **katanaman** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:28 am

Anybody who could actually be bothered to sign the petition well done as it looks like its being noticed http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6352957.stm

ppyvabw · Post by **ppyvabw** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:06 am

Signed

Post by **demo2** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:20 pm

Is this trackin device idea 2 replace road tax then?

kev_the_mole · Post by **kev_the_mole** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:58 am

Hmmmm......a British Government getting rid of a tax. I don't think so

Anyway what would pay the wages of all those fine people at the DVLA?

Post by **katanaman** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:50 am

nah its to get more money out of us, emm I mean its to save the environment and cut congestion. Yeah right!!!

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:02 pm

Is it just me, but if you want to reduce car usage can't you just stop issuing driving licences to every one who turns up for a test. Make it difficult to pass the test, then get cought drink driving then you get banned for life, get 12 points and get banned then start again and have to pass a test if and when a provisional licence becomes available actually stop people who use mobiles whie driving. Get cought driving without a licence or insurance go to prison for a year get banned for life. This would actually reduce congestion and make the roads safer, however it would require policing and not be a revenue stream for Gordon so will never happen!

Mike

ppyvabw · Post by **ppyvabw** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:19 am

Did anyone else get the email from old tony. He writes emails the same way he does public speaking. "let me make one thing absolutely clear..." lol

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:47 am

you don't understand

, he knows he is right! 2 million people telling him he is wrong just shows him that they don't understand and they must be shown the light, it just convinces him more that his work is not done! talk about meglomaniac, he is scary!
Mike

Post by **Coops** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:01 pm

yup got my e-mail today

kev_the_mole · Post by **kev_the_mole** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:37 pm

Yup, couldn't believe the patronising garbage from the swivel eyed gimp.

Guy Fawkes obviously had the right idea!

ppyvabw · Post by **ppyvabw** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:03 am

Guy Fawkes obviously had the right idea!

Well anyone who tried to mimic guy fawkes had better blow up brown at the same time.

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:22 am

carefull now can't have this subversive talk, the thought police will be over to Tony's to close down the web site collect our details and lock us all up in Cuba!

Mike