Car drivers

[TheWhisper]

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/

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

[matt674]

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).

[ericstoner]

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

[Pilf]

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

Great recruitment drive Whisper 

[Royal Flush]

Seems a good idea to me.

[ifm]

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!

[TEX FITZ]

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)

[TEX FITZ]

sorry, didnt spot earlier post

[wader leg]

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

[Bongo]

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

[Colchester Kev]

I have merged topics .

[thetank]

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

Good question.

[tikay]

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

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!

[AndrewT]

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

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.

[TheWhisper]

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)