Road pricing petition

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Found this on another forum (not to name it…):

"The governments 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 an 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/

Now I know there are some entirely silly petitions people have put on there, but they have received few signatures - this one has over 5000 already and hopefully will be considered more seriously. If you think that the road priciing scheme is not likely to happen - have a look at these links too!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4610755.stm

http://www.pm.gov.uk/files/pdf/ROAD%20TRANSPORT%20BILL%20(DRAFT).pdf

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Which government would ever be brave enough to implement this?

Remember the Poll Tax riots…

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Blimey!

Yesterday when I signed there were just over 50 signatures

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nowe theres alot of sigs i just signed it but it that dont work maybe we should ride a protest throught london along with car drivers and lorry drivers lol

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done it

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It says that there are loads of signatures and only shows the most recent 500. There were 500 when I looked there are 501 now

It would also help if we all sent the opening post to everyone we have an email address for in the UK. Nothing travels faster that news on the Internet when everyone becomes a postman. Its one freedom the government haven’t capped yet.

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Good point … but how much Council Tax ( Poll tax) do you pay each week.

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forget council tax, how much tax in total do you pay out of your salary? Must be about 70% what with income tax, NI, VAT, Council Tax etc,

Too many benefits!

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average in uk is 51p per £. Me about 61p…
In France you can be paying up to 68% just in income tax… and scandinavia is even worth…
Not so bad all considering…

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Another sodding tax, i think my sister did the right thing and moved to Spain because the way this country is going.