If you drive a car, please read -
>
>Sarah Kennedy was talking about this proposed car tax scheme on Radio
2.
>Apparently there is only one month left to register your objection to
the
>'Pay As You Go' road tax.
>
>The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell
anybody
>about it. Therefore at the time of Sarah's comments only 250,000
people had
>signed it and 750,000 signatures are required for the goverment to at
least
>take any notice.
>
>Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full
address,
>just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email
with a
>link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the
petition.
>
>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 mother 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 in time
you can
>probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly
bill.
>
>If you are concerned about this Orwellian plan and want to stop the
>constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No
10's new
>website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible.
Sign
>up if you value your freedom and democratic rights -
>
>
>http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
>
>
>
>

 

Just looked at the link - current signatures are 966,743

 

Lets keep it going, the more we get the more they may listen

 

Fair enough - but don't kid yourself that some signatures will change their mind. If they decide this is gonna make them shit loads of money (and it will cos I'll bet that less than 5% of drivers stop using the car as a result - the rest will just pay up. Hey, we ARE British - thats what we do best : get FUCKED) then public opinion isn't gonna change that.

We all said we don't want the Euro, and every year that goes by a new law is passed that brings closer and closer to the Euro, just in a sneaky "backdoor" kind of way....