Road pricing going ahead, your rights suppressed!.

[Itchy]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/fairdealfordrivers/2573876/Spy-in-the-sky-paves-way-for-road-pricing.html

precis:

government is putting out contracts to tender for 2010 road pricing *trials* ,

So much for Gordon Brown's I'm against this idea in principle,

standard comments:

Oh and for those who say Zanulabour will be annilated next election don't be so sure..

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article4547848.ece?Submitted=true

precis 2:

Ivan Lewis my local low life MP has proposed super super super tax ie back to the days of 98% tax, but the devil is in the detail which means it will more likely to be 55% tax on those who earn more than 50K.....

remember green taxes were supposed to hit gas guzzlers but when it came about managed to hit some very ordinary family cars.

Which is exactly what Robert mugabe did ie steal the wealth of others to 'buy' massive tax cuts for the lower paid while ruining the economy to stay in power at ALL costs...

If Gordon gave people a 50% tax cut* I bet alot of people would vote for him still.

*to hell with the consequences.
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[igiyf]

this is one thing i HATE..and i hope to god people don"t accept it.. i for one wont be.

[Mister James]

Too busy worrying about your shit command of the English language?
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[igiyf]

what the fuck are you on about

[Hetzer]

[Mister James]

Well, I was heading more along the lines of "I can't take you seriously if you can't be arsed to write properly" - but you can interpret it as you will.

Not only does he talk shit, he's incapable of presenting it in a readable format.
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>Bazza Wow. Eyes like a shithouse rat, you...

[igiyf]

ohhh.. i thought slickness would do it.. i went out on the weekend and bought a suit.. does not seem to be making much of a diffence

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[iooi]

Well of course they are putting it out to tender...
Brown knows forwell that he won't be in power then either as leader of Labour or the country.

It will then be a case of well too much money has now been spent to back out of the contracts, due to the nice clauses that will have been written in, just in case someone else wants to stop the ripping off of the road users.

So as far as anyone at the time is concerned its a done job and good ol'e GB can point the finger of blame anywhere he likes..... As he know it can't come back to blame him.


Sorry but you cant use the word "principle" in the same sentence where ANY politician is concerned...
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[Mister James]

[Ste]

You could be onto some there...

Labour
Tories
BNP
UKIP
etc etc
or Mister James

Be worth a try I reckon, if nothing else, he couldn't be worse than any of the alternatives.

[Mister James]

Well, that's one vote sewn up!

I'd better start printing some pamphlets or something....
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>Soultrader Mister James, I bet you are a copper
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[aaronb74]

I have to laugh at the fact that "Chancellor Alistair Darling believes the scheme could be crucial in cutting congestion in the long-term".

I work 31 miles from where I live and have no desire to move house just to be closer to work and further away from my family in friends. As I live in a small seaside town and work in the very outskirts of Glasgow, there is no direct public transport link, without me having to go right into the city centre (through crazy daily traffic jams), then get another bus to close to where I work, then have a 10 minute walk to the office. So now, as well as paying extortionate amounts for petrol, I have to pay extortionate amounts for using the road too?

Some roads could be charged up to £1.30 per mile. So it's realistically possibly that people who travel 10,000 miles a year (a fairly low estimation in my opinion), could potentially be spending more on driving to work/shops/school etc, than they actually earn in a year?
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[Itchy]

It won't be fought on such things anyway , big things are the economy and the economy looks like it is toast watching some of the markets and key indicies it just keeps getting worse and worse, I have already surpassed some of my apocalyptic scenarios.

time to tool meself up methinks.
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[Skudd]

Tinned peaches are a good weapon, and you can eat them well after the sell by date too.
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[aaronb74]

Mmmmm....peaches

I can't eat anything after the sell by date though - too paranoid but no idea why
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