The Roll Tax.

One last thing before I go. The following was passed on to me by The Big Green Thing and, as he said, just has to be highlighted.
Apparently, there is only one month left to register your objections to the 'Pay As You Go' road tax being proposed by our New Labour-Old Tory leaders. With a nod to the principles of democracy and consultation, anyone opposed to the idea can sign a petition posted on the Downing Street website. If it attracts 750,000 signatories then the Government says it will abandon this idea (evidently dreamed up by the "oh, I cycle to work and hate cars because I work part-time at my local library and don't have to do a proper job involving travelling anywhere else and my wife lives in London and so uses the Tube and doesn't need a car" brigade).
The petition, as I said, is on the 10 Downing St website but....................and here's New Labour in action for you...................the Blair Bunch hasn't told anyone about it!!!!! It's a belter!!
Currently, only 250,000 people have signed the petition - a third of the total needed to tell the Government to go fuck - and, although this is a pretty hefty total considering its existence is being kept a secret, more names are needed.
Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address, just house number and postcode will do), you will be sent an e-mail with a link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the petition.
Just how appalling is this latest New Labour wheeze to screw even more money out of us to spend on war, NHS consultants (non-medical variety) and armed militia to shoot smokers?
The basic premise of this new tax is that the more you use your car, the more you pay. Sounds fair, doesn't it? Sadly, like Thatcher's poll tax, it takes no account of ability to pay and is a tax on those who HAVE to use a car because where they live or their employers demand it.
The road pricing policy means force you to buy a tracking device for your car and then pay a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and, in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist against £194 for a delivery driver. A non-working mother who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month!! She should send her children to school on the school bus, you might say? WHAT FUCKING SCHOOL BUS??? She should pop them on public transport, I hear you ask? WHAT FUCKING PUBLIC TRANSPORT - NOT EVERYONE LIVES IN FUCKING LONDON!!!!
On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. It's like being fucking married all over again!! They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit somewhere then will probably have to expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly bill.
To quote the opponents of this rubbish: "If you care about our freedom and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website."
The website link is:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

God, I thought bird flu was Blair's last chance to leave a legacy, the legacy of being the biggest political twat since King Canute, but this could be his "belt and braces" bid. Fuck him.
New Labour - off to Grantham with you, along with Trading Standards (why haven't they prosecuted Blair for selling himself and his cronies as Labour. Surely, just inserting the word "New" does not provide an adequate defence to a charge of misrepresentation of goods?)