Reply to: New tax, after all its only fair!

[Bagpuss]

Chairman Mao?

Meow

[PAH]

How did you know he was called Smith?

I asked Derek Acora. Who found out off google.

[Churchill]

Looks like a smudge to me.

How did you know he was called Smith?

[PAH]

Here's some more local news, this time from Yorkshire and far more entertaining.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7029051.stm

Looks like a smudge to me.

[zeitghost]

It might be a local interest story but it has implications nationwide as more and more chairman mow inspired parasites (you might call them councilors) decide we should be using pogo sticks or water pedellos to commute, while their over nourished fat arses are chauffeured around in exempted v6 leather clad merc limousines

Chairman Mao?

[Alf W]

Here's some more local news, this time from Yorkshire and far more entertaining.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7029051.stm

[TheFaQQer]

theres plenty of non-4x4 cars which will be hit, the Vauxhall Zafira being one of them!

Ah - a Vauxhall tax. I'll vote for that.

[tay]

Point was that people shouldn't post local interest only stories on here.

No the point was that you made yourself look like a pompous twat....

[Bagpuss]

It might be a local interest story but it has implications nationwide as more and more chairman mow inspired parasites (you might call them councilors) decide we should be using pogo sticks or water pedellos to commute, while their over nourished fat arses are chauffeured around in exempted v6 leather clad merc limousines

[Alf W]

Won't happen up here and if it does, my Ltd will be expanding into delivering Black Puddings so will need an exempt delivery vehicle.

Point was that people shouldn't post local interest only stories on here.

A POWERFUL group of businesses have formed an alliance to fight Greater Manchester's congestion charge plans.

And the group, which includes household names like Harvey Nichols, Lookers, and Makro, is planning to make sure the matter is an issue in the local elections in May.

The Greater Manchester Momentum Group (GMMG), includes a number of high profile businesses like Trafford Centre owners Peel Holdings and Kellogg's together with the Federation of Small Businesses, The Forum of Private Business and the Road Haulage Association.

Among other members are Stockport cash and carry giants A G Parfett & Sons, Trafford Park hauliers AK Worthington Distribution, leading law firm Brabners Chaffe Street, top accountants Deloitte, brewers Joseph Holt, Hydes Brewery, Speedy Hire, Stax Trade Centres, Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions, and Bury structural engineers William Hare.

Plans to introduce congestion charging in return for £3bn of public transport improvements have been put forward by the Association of Greater Manchester Councils to the government's Transport Innovation Fund.

But three of the 10 member authorities have already withdrawn their support.

Department for Transport officials will decide shortly whether to allow the plans to go ahead.

[The Lone Gunman]

Do try and keep up. We do make allowances for the hard of thinking, but this is slow even for you.

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...5-per-day.html

[Spacecadet]

theres plenty of non-4x4 cars which will be hit, the Vauxhall Zafira being one of them!

[shaunbhoy]

I'd like to see a congestion charge in supermarkets to prevent old duffers shopping at the weekend

Better still, clamp the old fookers with some sort of wheeled brace arrangement!! Then when you get enough of them, dovetail them all together like they do with shopping trolleys and simply push them off to the far end of the car park and charge them a fee for release. That is the way to get their dosh back into circulation instead of the smelly old gits hoarding it and bleating on about being skint all the time. Poppycock!!

[TheFaQQer]

I'd like to see a congestion charge in supermarkets to prevent old duffers shopping at the weekend

Or in the run-up to any bank holiday.

[Bagpuss]

I'd like to see a congestion charge in supermarkets to prevent old duffers shopping at the weekend