Scargill

• The idea that the government would remove tax from Petrol and Diesel and fairly charge according to conjection is laughable. Their assumption is that we trust them to do this whereas in fact we all know the charges would creep up over time to pay for the social services. There is no way this government would be able to resist the option and they know we’d have no real way to monitor increases. £1.34 in the centre of a conjested city might not sound TOO bad – but what if they decided the M6 was overcrowded or the A1 or the M25? Some people (often those who generate wealth in business which often requires speedy and diverse travel unsuited to public transport) could find their travel costs multiplying several-fold.
• Does anyone in goverment who has any kind of life really believe for one minute that the British public would accept their every move, their every stop-off being tracked – I don’t even think George Orwell envisaged control of quite this magnitude. Does anyone think that such tracking information would be used solely for the purposes of road charging? Come off it, with the current state of terrorism the government would be unable to resist the tempation to use this to track citizens – in the beginning only known terrorists but eventually as computer power increases they’d find the idea of keeping tabs on everyone irresistable and computers will soon be easily up to this challenge.
• What about the cost of the tracking devices – if they charged motorists for this, there’s ANOTHER tax, if they don’t then the public (including motorists) would STILL end up paying for them – having seen the ridiculous suggested charges for identity cards, I have no doubt that the goverment would procure such devices by methods which would ensure charges to us which would be WAY above typical commercial cost

This is a VERY dangerous idea that should be fought with our last breath. It is nothing more than another attempt to kill the motor car and reduce us all to using the rather pathetic (and in some places non-existant) public transport system by a government that has no understanding of business and little understanding of the needs and desires of it’s own people. Big Brother? How about ENORMOUS Brother!