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If you drive a car, Read this.

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. This is legit... from the 10 Downing Street's website.

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 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 care about our 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://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/  (http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/)

Sign up if you are in agreement with the petition - if not just forget it.

Lol, i've received this exact same email about 15 times now - if they don't f**k us this way they will think of many others (like the proposed plan to introduce a congestion corridor charge in Manchester).

776,589 sigs when I looked this after.............................Job done then.What will the come up with next.

Great recruitment drive Whisper  ;D

Seems a good idea to me.

The transport minister (dunno his name) recently discounted this petition saying something along the lines of "it will have no bearing on the decision".
That's democracy for ya!

Hi, hope this post and link OK with mods

This is NOT garbage.


Radio 2 talked about the proposed Road Pricing 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 the comments only 250,000 people have 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.

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 care about our 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://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

I have signed and it is real, at the time i signed it read :-

Deadline to sign up by: 20 February 2007 – Signatures: 805,059

This has boomed since on the radio, the more the merrier.

But i figured a way round it - leave the tracker at home hitched up to a 12v battery (take it to pub twice a week)

sorry, didnt spot earlier post

Regardless of the issue, do you think 750,000 online petitoners should have the power to change Government policy?

750,000 signatures of an online petition during the beta testing of a new website? Never.

I have merged topics .

Good question.

Bongo, at least, spots the scam.

It's hard to imagine folks believe these things. The same story emerged a few months back, closely followed by another on the same "Government Website" - "should fat people be taxed at a higher rate?". Folks fell for that, too!

They don't.

There's no magic number when the Government thinks 'oooh, we've got 750,000 people saying to end road tax, ban Mondays or send all the Muslims back where they came from, that means we've got to do it'.

You get one chance to influence Government policy, by making one little X every five years - that's it. Any government which made a pledge to do whatever the public wanted would be in a lot of trouble.

This is not a scam website, it is the real deal.
You can follow the link to it from The Number 10 website.
While it is true that they might not listen they would be foolish to ignore such large numbers.
One Mrs Thatcher thought she could ignore the public with her Poll Tax and we all know the outcome (well those over a certain age)

But how many actual individuals have signed up?

I think it's quite funny.

driving a car since Labour came to power has actually gotten cheaper (9% in Real terms. source Newsnight and nobody (even automobilie lobbyists)  dispute this) so i don't know why car drivers complain soo much.

Also the "On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will
know where you are at all times." yes..because satnav does no such thing. Who do you think invented GPS? (American military for those who don't know) They can already know where you are at all time simply by tracking either your satnav or your phone...so the whole "Big brother is watching you" argument also falls rather flat.


Motorists are a funny bunch.

I don't think GPS isn't accurate enough for road charging, hence the need for a new system.

Sat Navs pick up the signal from the satellites and the unit uses a form of triangulation to figure out where it is, they don't transmit back to space to be tracked... Also who knows who owns which sat nav unit?

Buying cars might be cheaper in real terms but driving them certainly isn't.
I would happily get rid of my car but I do not have any alternative.

Whilst we are on the subject of petitions and cars - here's another you may be interested in:

I do not know where the facts came from, but I'm sure VTS Support will.  http://www.vtssupport.co.uk (http://www.vtssupport.co.uk)



IMPORTANT NOTICE!

In the spring the Government will be making a decision on your vehicle being MOT’d every 2 years, instead of the current one year.
If this is passed in the spring, we would like to point out that there will be in the region of 1,800 extra deaths on the road, due to your car not having its annual roadworthy certificate.

The Government will put this forward as saving you the motorist £50.35 for an MOT.

FACT – Your Car Insurance Premium Will Rise By £100 estimated

FACT – 1,800 More Deaths On British Roads.

FACT – Gordon Brown Will Add VAT To Your MOT

Please do not let it be you, or a member of your family, Or Your Child, that Gordon Brown has decided no longer needs a life!

Please Help Us To Help You, And Sign Our Online Petition.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/twoyearmot/ (http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/twoyearmot/)

 VTS SUPPORT

Supporting The MOT Industry To Make Change!

I would love to know how they track your GPS receiver!!!

Mobile phones though are another matter.

Do you really care if someone knows where your car has been? Most major roads are covered by cameras anyway!