corsa.v6
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imo i think its a shite idea wot you think
Vehicle Road Tax Proposal
petition web site
http://www.petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
Sarah Kennedy was on about this proposed car tax scheme on the radio,
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 so far and 750,000 signatures are
required to stop them introducing it.
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.
Democracy in action? 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 for ‘average’ people,
turned out to be as follows:
£ 28 for a rural florist
£ 194 for a delivery driver.
£ 86 for a non working mother who used the car to take the
kids to school paid 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 care about your freedom and stopping 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.
http://www.petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
Sign up if you are in agreement with the petition - if not just
forget it.
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K2 GTi
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Post-re?
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corsa.v6
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dint look tbh
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Ben D
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I think i have Seen this posted 3 times on this site alone... Sure theres an Active topic in Off day now.
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CorsAsh
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fir3vip3r
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quote:
Originally posted by CorsAsh
oh dear
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corsa.v6
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it is bollox though all these petitions we still have no fooking choice
robbing bastards
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VegasPhil
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Took a minute Ash
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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corsa.v6
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ho ye a get it
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nova_gteuk
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It was on the local radio station earlier,that they have had 1 million signatures all ready and one of the mps said they might have to rethink this proposal..
And they want be sticking no little black box in my car 
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nova_gteuk
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More road-charging debate pledged
More than a million people signed a petition opposing road charges
The transport secretary has pledged to listen to opponents of the introduction of UK road charging.
Douglas Alexander said he will hear the concerns of more than a million people who signed a petition opposing pay-as-you-drive road charges.
The government has insisted that doing nothing would lead to a 25% increase in congestion in less than a decade.
But Mr Alexander said it was important to have a proper debate on the subject and consider a range of views.
The petition, which is the most popular on the Downing Street website, calls for the scrapping of the "planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy".
It was posted by Peter Roberts, from Telford, Shropshire, who describes charging as an "unfair tax".
Mr Roberts - whose petition broke through the million-signature barrier on Saturday - believes charging is unfair on poor people and those who live apart from their families.
'No choice'
When asked if he would take into account the views of those who signed the petition, Mr Alexander told the BBC that the government would "listen to people".
It was important to "deliberate, discuss" and then take a decision, he said.
"Ultimately, it will be a matter for parliament to make decisions but it is important that people have the chance to have their say and no doubt people will offer a range of opinions during that debate."
Peter Roberts believes road charging is unfair
He added that people needed to recognise that the UK did not have a choice "but to deal with congestion".
"Our roads are literally filling up," he said.
The prime minister's official spokesman said it was a "lively debate" but that "debate in itself does not produce policy".
But Labour MP John Spellar told the BBC's Today programme that the government was too busy looking at the "big idea" to see the "small boring details" that would provide the real solutions to congestion.
"The big idea doesn't have public acceptance," he said.
'Big Brother'
Paul Biggs, spokesman for the Association of British Drivers, told GMTV that the petition showed that motorists did not want road charging.
He said: "The only way road pricing can work is to actually price people off the roads.
"That is one reason they will sign the petition. Another reason they will sign it is that are going to be trapped and traced wherever they drive.
"It is Big Brother - and they don't want that."
Plans to introduce a nationwide "pay-as-you-drive" system were unveiled by former Transport Secretary Alistair Darling in 2005.
Mr Darling's successor, Mr Alexander, has since suggested that road pricing could be brought in within a decade and that regional trials are planned.
taken off bbc news
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corsa.v6
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will cause some riots if it does happen im sure
ill sell mi car and get a scooter
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Nismo
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa.v6
will cause some riots if it does happen im sure
ill sell mi car and get a scooter
dont get a scooter , get a time machine 
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grogan
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no recording box going in any car i own, they can do 1
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Colin
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Surely its an infringement on human rights to track you 
It will never happen, if it did all hell would break loose!!
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Steve
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i agree, like i said on vagweb, i feel it would lead to a mass influx of people driving without tax, and probably crash the system
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Dean_W
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So, will it change to road pricing, or will this be on top of tax disc cost?
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Kellye
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Its pathetic
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Nismo
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
i agree, like i said on vagweb, i feel it would lead to a mass influx of people driving without tax, and probably crash the system
its like steve works on a plug-per-post basis 
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marklaruk
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quote:
Originally posted by fir3vip3r
quote:
Originally posted by CorsAsh
oh dear
i get it!!
muslims are to blame!
[Edited on 12-02-2007 by marklaruk]
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Wrighty
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ash
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corsa.v6
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let them get on wi it
i wont pay it and by the sounds of it no one else will which is good
all though i would save so much money on petrol is a good point 
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corsa.v6
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quote:
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its a good one that
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corsa.v6
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in fact im going to tell them to make the fucking roads wider
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