Road Tax Petition

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If you have not already objected please read below.

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Only one month left to act !!!!!


Subject: ROAD TAX
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 government 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?wp_ml=0&gt;
And don't forget to acknowledge the government's return email when you get it or your objection will not be registered

alwaysonthego_2

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I don't believe they need to consider installing ANYTHING in vehicles to track milegage.

A whole system of cameras nationally is already in and in places still being installed. It's called ANPR - Automatic Number Plate Recognition. Many are already in and working. Police forces all over the country are already using them for police work but....

once these are fully installed over the whole of the UK I can envisage a time when the information recorded will be sold/passed not only to DVLA (PAYG tax?), but insurance companies as well (PAYG insurance?).

Big Bro is already out there and busily recording your journeys.

AMO

I think that Big Bro is always going to out there. The question is how it is implemented. It has to be there - otherwise in today's world, the government would be ineffective at tracking crime etc.

If the government said that they wouldn't implement the Big Brother thing in any way shape or form and couldn't catch criminals and asked Joe Public how to improve the crime rate, guess where the answer would be - technology, in the way of tracking and monitoring-based devices.

Whether right or wrong, if we choose to be against one sort of monitoring, it will spring up in another form. The government has no choice whatsoever. No-ones going to pay 10 times the amount of tax to remove technology monitoring devices and pay for 10 times the amount of police which are probably going to be less effective in many cases.

AMO

rare_stuff

Surely you wouldn’t suggest we paid for our road usage in a proportion to the amount we used them, particularly in peak times? This is an issue that seriously needs looked at and the proposals studied in depth so a solution that will work is developed. Many comments I have read such as yours does nothing for the debate and just fuels knee-jerk almost NIMBY reactions to change, even if this change could benefit us all in the long run.

Do you propose that rising traffic volumes should go unchecked indefinitely until we reach complete grid lock and the ensuing traffic chaos this would cause?

edited to add this I just found on the bbc website as numbers who have 'signed' the petition break the million

No 10 has insisted that doing nothing would lead to a 25% increase in congestion "in less than a decade".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6349027.stm

peterg1965

Understand that there are now over one million signatures on the petition. Let us see whether people are actually listened to by Politicians, somehow I doubt they will. A few years ago 'they' (this socialist labour govt) launched a sound bite initiative called the 'Big Conversation' which was supposed to let the government know exactly what people actually think. As we all know this particluar government knows what is best for us (Iraq?) and will pay lip service to the voice of one million people. Just look what it did to Mrs T in 1989 and the Poll tax riots.

If they want to be serious about tackling road over crowding then stop the immigration of hundreds of thousands of people every year, who all want a car and will make the situation worse. Do something radical like Japan and limit the number of cars on the road; before you can register a new car an old one has to be officially removed from the road (ie scrapped). I wonder if Ministers in their shiny Jags will have to put their hand in their pockets to pay their own 'pay as you go' miles??..........didn't think so......