Petition against Pay You Go Motoring.

[nuttynurse]

I received this email this morning advising a group of friends of the following petition against the Pay As You Go car tax scene. Seems its being kept quite deliberately in order to push it through. If you want to stop the government forcing you to purchase a black box for your car you will need to act sooner to stop them.

[trevor.dowle]

[nuttynurse]

Hi,
In fact I think there's over 1 million now but never-the-less the more against it the better. Blair really hasn't got much left to lose, has he? and perhaps Gordon Brown is happy for Blair to pursue this so he does not start his premiership under this invasive action of robbing innocent people of their rights to privacy. I personally think it about time government remembered they are the servants of the people and not the masters. In one form or another we shell out a great deal for the privilege of driving our cars on the road. This is not going to make a fairer system or ease the problems of congestion as none of the revenue government takes off us seems to get ploughed back into developing alternative forms of transport, to improving the existing transport networks, or to improve the appauling roads that we already have. I hope people will stop and consider the implications of all this legislation before Blair is able to impose yet another attack upon the motorist. But more importantly we should be concerned with our right to privacy, our right to be able to go about our business without being supervised and constantly monitored. How's this really going to benefit the public as a whole? How's it going to deter the criminal willing to steal your car for a joy ride. Can't they simply rip out you "black box" to go undetected? This is surely not just about taxation, congestion and pollution either, is it? How many billions of pounds of taxation has Mr Brown raised through petrol and road tax since coming to power with Blair ten years ago? And how much of this has been spent on improving public transport in all that time? I wouldn't mind betting you more has been made than spent. We have developed national distribution companies requiring great fleets of lorries to deliver to local large supermarkets around the country, killing off our local villages and towns, businesses and forcing many to drive miles to buy their groceries. Local schools, hospitals, post offices and the likes again closed necessitating people to drive rather than walk. People now need to commute many miles to work etc, etc. You can bet your life this is not so much about making these problems easier as they are about raising taxes to pay for some of the more ludicrous policies this government makes. Is this going to be any fairer on the lower paid person? of course not. Those who can afford luxury vehicles will be able to pay to use the better roads at what ever time of day they chose. Commercial vehicles will have the price passed onto the consumer. The rest of us will be trying to escape the high charged periods by detouring around the A and B catergory roads. Speed cameras can be done away with as the satelites will be able to plot our course and speed instantly posting us a NIP when ever we stray over the limit. Your in car speed camera detector won't help you here giving even greater potential to raise taxes through fining motorist because even if you are on a quiet country lane the spy in the sky will have seen you as you edge over the speed limit. You whole journey in the car will be ever more stressful as you fear to take your eyes from the speedo.. What wrong with having the police back out on the streets and on the roads doing the job they are paid to do, rather than have them sat in stations. 8)

[theripper]

Hi all
Apparently there is also a new petition against speedcams according to the Daily Mail today
theripper

[nuttynurse]

Yep. Signed against that one too.

[MaFt]

i believe this is actually wrong... pretty sure i read somewhere that it was an idea that suddenly got emailed round everywhere but isn't actually going to happen..

pretty sure i saw a newspaper headline along the lines of 'new car tax lies all wrong' or something the other day. i hardly read papers so not sure what it said but i assume it was going on about this.

MaFt

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