road pricing is disgusting, we already pay way over the odds in fuel taxes and road taxes, public transport is ridiculously overpriced and unreliable…a typical return journey from my home to work and back costs me on average £6 a day thats not on in my eyes.

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it seems to me what i have always believed that road charging is just another way of councils grabbing more money off drivers as ms dunwoody says above Ms Dunwoody said: “You are going to have to move on a bit. Other authorities are not going to wait around while you do your research.”

She warned other bids might step in and “grab” the money available first. so there you go it’s all to do with money making yet again.

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Perhaps this is a slow starter because someone at the top can actually read and they know it would have to be a brave person who would even think of implementing such a vile scheme, they have obviously heard of the story of the last straw that broke the camels back.

Or of course they may have been around to see what that wonderful system called Poll Tax did to Maggie Thatcher.

Not so long ago Tony Blair was told in no uncertain terms that in excess of 2 million motorist had signed his petition informing him that no way were they going to put up with road charging in any way shape or form, he replied by saying that he was going to ignore that petition, well he can say that when he is a Has Been Prime Minister, I think he would have said differently if he had just come into office.

Now that was only 2 million because the petition was designed to accept only one vote per computer, so if there were for instance, 3 drivers in a household it still only allowed one vote from those families 2 million computers, when in fact if all 3 drivers been allowed to vote the figure might realistically have been 6 million.

Personally I believe Road Pricing should be bought in and the sooner the better, not because I believe it’s a good system but because the great British Public need a kick up the backside to get them to the ballot box to register their contempt for this government and all the other British Governments who feel that they were only installed in government office for the sole purpose of bleeding the hard working British Public Dry.

Can I put in a quick point? Had the government clamped down on the illegal entry into Britain, the 2 million people that they have lost track off that shouldn’t be here, wouldn’t be here driving on our roads aggravating the problem even more, and what happens when those 2 million decide to do what the good lord instructed us to do “go forth and multiply”? Britain is a small island and its bursting at the seems, thanks to our wonderful leaders who I wouldn’t trust to go the Loo on their own let alone control our future.

Jim of Bearwood.

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