Friday, November 13, 2009

Driving Charges PLease Read?

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/





Thought everyone should know!

Driving Charges PLease Read?
I will definitely be going to sign. I will not pay this tax whatsoever, even if I end up walking everywhere. I will not pay for my freedom. Thanks for letting me know. I will be there at No 10 protesting if this bill even tries to get through.
Reply:That is ridiculous.





There are people dodging car tax, income tax, VAT etc all over the country so I expect that there will be many many more dodging this one.
Reply:sorry, I went to sign it but it states that you must be a British citizen. Good luck. Don't we have wonderful governments? Sounds like something bush would do.
Reply:Blimey mate! And I thought we had it rough over here because we have to pay tolls to use certain highways..And as far as tracking goes....it's been happening for a long time now. Check out Google Earth and type in your address (just an example...I realize alot of these satellite images are years old,but how come some satellites can show instant live images???)
Reply:This is ridiculous- another of Red Ken's Marxist crusade against non-State transport.


I have no idea why the English simply don't revolt and behead both Blairs, Brown, Straw and Livingstone for this crap.


Do you know people in Indonesia would burn down government buildings for this kind of crap?


We English need to re-grow our backbones.


Just wanted to say Good on you Love! Thank-You for being an upstanding civic minded Briton.


Back-slaps and a digital shout of ales all round!
Reply:thanks, good site. I often go there to see what petitions I should sign. There's lots of legislation that is being passed through because we don't care enough to find out or can't be bothered to check. Road pricing is a con! We pay the highest petrol tax in Europe, and we also pay road tax. Plus we have the highest parking charges in Europe and we have the congestion charge.


Now I wouldn't object if there were viable public transport alternatives and you could get around London easily and cheaply BUT London's Mayor (why doesn't someone assassinate him?) has just put the public fares up. Oh, they want to encourage 2-wheelers into London instead to save on pollution and then, in the same week, withdraw all the free parking for motorcycles.


This is nothing to do with the environment and EVERYTHING to do with just getting more money in tax.


Everyone should sign this petition and, at the next general election, VOTE LABOUR OUT. They are crippling this country and its citizens.
Reply:I am in the US and have heard people discussing this for here. Isn't it interesting how governments have so many ways of getting their hands into our pockets. Sounds like something the tax and spend democrats will be looking at, they would love to have all that money to spend.
Reply:Extra tax on top of the 40% of our incomes we already pay in tax?? Compulsary ID cards, Smoking Ban, Now Car Tracking all of which we have to pay extra for, none of which I recall actually voting on? What kind of a state is this becoming. I am not sure about the rest of you, but as a person living on my own earing ok money, I still dont have any extra cash to chuck away for driving my car too and from work. Great Idea Blair... but erghhh when was the last time you tried to use public transport? aprat from no guarantees it will turn up, it being dirty, the abude you face by the YOB culture. half the time there isnt any other method of getting too and from work? See for yourselfs, if you cant afford to use your car, and cant get a lift permenatly how would you get to work? could you do it? What kind of a place are we living in? How f*cking real is the UK government and why is it that the workers, the honest decent people just trying to build a life get s*it on???? if you super rich you can pick what tax you pay? Yet us normal people the ones that keep the country going keep getting kicked. Take my advice guys / girls get the hell out of here, leave this dump, I know for one thing I am not proud of being a UK resident at the moment
Reply:Who voted them in?
Reply:thatsucks for you guys, I don't understand why thy would have a need to keep track of everyone all the time
Reply:All charges will be passed on to the consumer, i.e at the point they start charging all food/fuel/goods/services will go up. Your wages won't, so who will benefit? People will still drive as they have to already, I dont expect to hear anyone say, I'd like to go to the cinema tonight but I can't afford the cost of the journey! Sounds too unreal to me, are the government scaremongering us.


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