PLEASE SIGN THE PETION! (Road Charging)

Loui1979

Nearly two million people have signed a petition against road charging. It closes at midnight tonight. The Government have said they will rethink the plans if there's enough public support.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

Morglin

Blair said today he will listen to concerns before it's implemented.........which was a bit of a Freudian slip on his part.:rolleyes:

Quite honestly, though, if it means a less congested M25, A21 and M20, then I'll happily pay it.:j

The congestion charge in London has made it much easier to travel, and charging seems to be the only way.

Lin

Lillibet_2

Thank you Morglin, I've long thought I was the only one who thought that this was a good idea!? Afraid I thoroughly agree with it and have already point blank refused to sign the petition when a freind shoved the link under my nose.

beca

Lillibet wrote:

Thank you Morglin, I've long thought I was the only one who thought that this was a good idea!? Afraid I thoroughly agree with it and have already point blank refused to sign the petition when a freind shoved the link under my nose.

Me too. My friend keeps on at me to sign it. However, he is a road haulier and so obviously has a vested interest. Why on earth should I subsidise his use of the roads?

ailuro2

On the programme I watched about it last night, the rich bloke who drove 35,000 miles a year in his 4x4 was a massive 2000 pounds a year better off under road pricing,the single mother was just 100 pounds better off. The guy who was driving into the most congested area buit did 10000 miles a year would have had to paid around 680 more per year, that was based on the assumption that the government would knock a third off of the current fuel tax that we pay on petrol.

I've signed it, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.:rolleyes:

IFA

It's just YET another Labour tax, most hard working people will be worse off (as usual under Labour).. I've signed the petition

alba37

I've signed too.

njc12

and me.

njc12

the_optimist

and me!

Both OH and I are self employed and need to drive to our customers. With the extra expense we would either go bust :mad: or have to put our prices up...:mad:...and the customer gets stung twice.

Same with the lorries, do you really think Tesco and Sainsburys etc will pay for the extra cost??? No, they put the prices up on the goods, so we all have to pay a lot more a) for the miles we drive and b)for the goods we buy - great :mad:

Pauls

done, and so has my OH

beca

the_optimist wrote:

and me!

Both OH and I are self employed and need to drive to our customers. With the extra expense we would either go bust :mad: or have to put our prices up...:mad:...and the customer gets stung twice.

Same with the lorries, do you really think Tesco and Sainsburys etc will pay for the extra cost??? No, they put the prices up on the goods, so we all have to pay a lot more a) for the miles we drive and b)for the goods we buy - great :mad:

Not everyone will pay more for the miles they drive - I drive far less miles than any Tesco or Sainsbury's lorry so I will benefit there. I still think any increase in food prices will be lower than an overall tax of, say, 10% which is possibly what could happen if this scheme does not go ahead. THe Government will get the money somehow - a "pay as you use" scheme seems for more fair to me.