Reply to: Who likes Road Charging then?

[To BI or not to BI?]

I would like to point out that all my posts on this thread are tongue-in-cheek. It's a boring morning.

And anyway, who cares about road charging? We are contractors after all, so I imagine everybody use helicopters (http://www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf)

[sasguru]

I would like to point out that all my posts on this thread are tongue-in-cheek. It's a boring morning.

[Spartacus]

It is what is done the money that we should worry about. My view is that the money will be spent on creating more non jobs for cronies of the state who will in turn spend their ill gotten gains on taking long haul flights to holiday destinations.

Au contraire, DA, it will be used to pay the pensions of Britain's hard-working local council staff.

[DodgyAgent]

That's paying for the damage you're doing to the environment. You should also pay for the damage you do to the roads.

It is what is done the money that we should worry about. My view is that the money will be spent on creating more non jobs for cronies of the state who will in turn spend their ill gotten gains on taking long haul flights to holiday destinations.

[Cliphead]

Yes you should. It will help you pay your increased council tax if your property has scenic views from every window...

Do you also have a conservatory?

Yep, and an observatory as well as attached recording studio

[Spartacus]

E/ Set pseudo-targets for everything.

Apparently the government target for recycling is for collection, not for disposal and also apparently, 90% of the glass collected through recycling ends up in a landfill in China.

Of course, I have no link for this, it's just rumour and conjecture...

According to Radio 4 it was on the department of the environment's webtulipe, now removed.

[ratewhore]

E/ Set pseudo-targets for everything.

Apparently the government target for recycling is for collection, not for disposal and also apparently, 90% of the glass collected through recycling ends up in a landfill in China.

Of course, I have no link for this, it's just rumour and conjecture...

[Spartacus]

I'm all for a cleaner environment, but let's

A/ Encourage alternatives to commuting e.g. home working

B/ Make a decent low cost rail network

C/ Move away from fossil fuels

D/ Build new toll roads


The government and local government has a wankfest vision of a UK where we all cycle to work wearing our red star caps and uniforms.

Look Bagpuss, just pay your fooking green taxes and leave the rest to me.

Gordon Brown.

[Bagpuss]

Haven't you heard Bagpuss, if you put taxes up the world will be saved from ecological disaster.

I'm all for a cleaner environment, but let's

A/ Encourage alternatives to commuting e.g. home working

B/ Make a decent low cost rail network

C/ Move away from fossil fuels

D/ Build new toll roads


The government and local government has a wankfest vision of a UK where we all cycle to work wearing our red star caps and uniforms.

[Spartacus]

Haven't you heard Bagpuss, if you put taxes up the world will be saved from ecological disaster.

[ratewhore]

I work from home,
Tesco delivers the necessities
Short walk to the pub
Scenic views from every window

Should I get a road tax rebate then for minimal use?

Yes you should. It will help you pay your increased council tax if your property has scenic views from every window...

Do you also have a conservatory?

[Bagpuss]

And what about joggers? They run a lot and wear road surfaces! Let's use their step-o-meters to calculate how much tax they'll have to pay!

The main crux of the charging is to be motorways. As someone who does 20k miles a year all over the UK, I can tell you that the motorways are no worse than 10 years ago, pretty much the same for the A roads. The major problem is the the roads in the towns and cities. So why are they concentrating on the motorways, mmmmmmmm, it couldn't be money raising exercise could it?

[To BI or not to BI?]

Road charging should only be for new toll roads. You have a choice, you pay to avoid the jam or you don't.

It should not be brought in to charge people for necessary journeys. WHat is the option , not to go to work?

Oh yes, they want us to use public transport, the same public transport that we were being told, just a week or so ago, has to put up prices to reduce overcrowding. They need to price us off the trains!

and price us off the roads! LMFAO

You couldn't make it up.

Maybe we should all sign on the social

And what about joggers? They run a lot and wear road surfaces! Let's use their step-o-meters to calculate how much tax they'll have to pay!

[Bagpuss]

Road charging should only be for new toll roads. You have a choice, you pay to avoid the jam or you don't.

It should not be brought in to charge people for necessary journeys. WHat is the option , not to go to work?

Oh yes, they want us to use public transport, the same public transport that we were being told, just a week or so ago, has to put up prices to reduce overcrowding. They need to price us off the trains!

and price us off the roads! LMFAO

You couldn't make it up.

Maybe we should all sign on the social

[malvolio]

Anyway, they've got it all wrong. The charge should fall the further you travel - £5 a mile for journeys up to 5 miles down to 1p a mile for journeys over 150 miles. Gets all those ninnies on the school run out of the way while us long-distance captains of industry can continue uninterrupted