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Previously on "Victory for the Road Charging Petitioners"
Just heard on the radio that Tony Blair said as a result of the Road Charging Petition on the No 10 website he will write to every petitioner and explain why it is necessary to have road chargers,
Hmm. What do you think tony is going to say?
He is just going to spam a million people, and tell them that they are all wrong and he is going to ignore them.
Can't see any victory there, Paddy. Can't see much democracy in action either.
Petitions. Letters. It's fantastic just to think what a difference we all can make to a listening, responsive, caring government.
Yes, this is spot on. Let’s not forget everyone, we are not voters, we are increasingly rebranded ‘customers’. As ‘customers’ we are normally right, our views get taken on board. Yet the ‘Dear Customer’ letter every petitioner will get will set out in the most condescending tone possible how in fact they are wrong. I am not aware of any baseline figures from the government which determine why road-pricing is required, or the levels at which they are set.
In other words no accountability for the government’s actions, yet they make the ‘customer’ fully accountable for its errors, cock-ups, failures etc. Example: I have just read in the news that EDS charges the govt over £2,000 p.a. to lease a laptop (oh, including those oh-so-necessary support charges), whereas a £1K per head purchase would have been far more suitable (probably even cheaper if the govt sourced through a decent channel reseller).
Imagine if all the other procurement failures the govt presides over were fully brought to light, i.e. 100% accountability. Then we could better appreciate where the billions in road-related taxation get diverted to.
I hate this government. I’m climbing back into the septic tank to calm down, I’m too angry to go on.
what we need is a campaign of mass civil disobedience
Erm, that would be illegal though, and thousands would be sent to jail for not paying the charge and fines.
To make room (as our jails are full anyway), they would have to release thousands of sex-offenders, career criminals, junkies and the like.
Once in the community, these miscreants would also refuse to pay, so they would send them back to jail, and have to release the road-tax rebels (nice soundbite that...Road Tax Rebels)
Of course, the RTR's would have to be sent back to jail, etc, etc, etc.
The easiest solution would be to have County Detention Centres, which processed a constant stream of offenders, morning, noon and night to keep up with the troublemakers.
Since you are constantly in and out of a detention centre, I suppose it could follow that private housing could be seized by the government as temporary accomodation for criminals waiting to be processed.
That would also solve the not-enough-homes crisis.
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