PAY AS YOU GO ROAD TAX

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Hi, I received this email from a friend who works for our local council, I thought you might be interested?

Please read!! I got this from our Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator, Caryl Roberts

They kept that quiet!
More ?sneaky? government legislation by stealth methods,
If you have not already objected please read below.
Send to everyone you know, only one month left to act !!!!!
Subject: FW: ROAD TAX
If you drive a car, please read -

Sarah Kennedy was talking about this proposed car tax scheme on Radio 2.
Apparently there is only one month left to register your objection to the
'Pay As You Go' road tax.

The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody
about it. Therefore at the time of Sarah's comments only 250,000 people had signed it and 750,000 signatures are required for the government to at least take any notice.
Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address,
just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email with a link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the petition.

The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to
purchase a tracking device for your car and paying 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 and £194 for a delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids to
school paid £86 in one month.

On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit in time you can probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly bill.

If you are concerned about this Orwellian plan and want to stop the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible. Sign up if you value your freedom and democratic rights -

Click On Here....
this

And don't forget to acknowledge the government's return email when you get
it or your objection will not be registered

that's disgusting. thanks for warning

big thread Here with alsorts of points of view/discussions

yep - I find the thread and 'control c' the url then paste it in the link code on my message.

i saw this on msn bt internet news: (cut and pasted it as well )

Tony Blair is to email the one-and-a-half million people who have signed an online petition against plans to bring in road pricing. He will tell them it is needed to help tackle the growing problem of traffic congestion.

Writing in The Observer, the Prime Minister admitted he did not expect to win critics over immediately.

But he said the petition, on the Downing Street website, had provoked a useful debate.

Mr Blair said: "I believe road pricing is surely part of the answer here

as it is in many other countries."

The PM noted that, after being criticised in the past as a "control freak", he was now "under attack for allowing dissenting views on my own website".

The strength of feeling against Department of Transport plans for a national scheme reached such levels at one point that it brought the site down.

The petition calls the policy "sinister and wrong" and warns the charge would be unfair to those who live away from their families, and poorer people.

Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander has accused its organisers of spreading myths and pledged to go ahead with plans to pilot the scheme