Petition against Car travel Tax!

[sasguru]

.. so what are we supposed to do, walk?

Yes. It'll stop you being so lardy.

HTH

[PerlOfWisdom]

Pay-as-you-go and road-pricing will not significantly reduce traffic congestion. Anyone with at least an ounce of brains can see that.

Yes it will, it will keep poor people off the roads.

[DimPrawn]

Better idea.

1. Tougher driving standards. Instead of the rich, limit road use to the best drivers. Force retest every 5 years. Force all foreign drivers to take a tough driving test on arrival. Raise driving age to 18 and stop drivers over 70 driving.

2. Government to issue limited number road permits to highest bidders. All money goes to public transport. This way the very rich will be paying a fortune to drive and the money raised will go to public transport. Do this every five years. If you lose your license, you lose your road permit and have to bid again. No permit, no driving.

DP for PM.

[Captain Jack]

Yes it will, it will keep poor people off the roads.

No it won't. Poor people will be given a road tax credit in the interest of "fairness". Just you wait and see.

[wendigo100]

Wow, it's up to 1.25 million now.

HMG will ignore it anyway.

[DimPrawn]

How about a petition to abolish IR35. I'm sure we could get 5 or 6 signatures from those contractors who could be bothered to fill it in.

[Lucy]

Road pricing is here to stay, sign as many petitions as you like.

[ChimpMaster]

It was even on the news the other night - as in how many people had signed up to it etc.

[rootsnall]

Road pricing is here to stay, sign as many petitions as you like.

I agree. Its also the only way to possibly free up roads in peak hours in the absence of any joined up planning by the so called government. Once we started building out of town offices and industrial units without any attempt at providing public transport to them we were stuffed.

[gingerjedi]

And what was NL's response to a petition with over 1,250,000 signatures on it "uh... whatever... the public are stupid... we'll go ahead anyway" feckeing arrogant bastards, Its not that we don't recognise that there's a problem its just that we are sick the standard NL 'solution' of sticking yet another tax on us.

When’s the next general election? Some of my mates who have been staunch red lefties in the past are telling me they are going to vote Tory next time around. NL.