New tax, after all its only fair!

[Mailman]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7242445.stm

Well, looks like a nice little revenue earner is about to hit the streets for the mayors office...and whats the bet Boris doesnt do a thing about it when he gets in to power!

I guess it is only fair that normal people, with normal cars pay this tax!

Mailman

[Xenophon]

I enjoy reading the comments that BBC news items get. Here is one on the emissions tax:

I'm happy to pay more tax for driving my 4x4, happy in the knowledge that my extra taxes are be spent on carbon negative initiatives which are going to save the planet.
Steve Bonham, chesterfield

Bless him.

[Alf W]

Costs me absolutely nothing to take the wife's 4x4 into Manchester so I couldn't give a tuppeny ha'penny sh1te if some wockney canker has to pay a bit more tax to pay for their Olympics and flood defences.

It might be grim up North but at least it's cheap!

[Bagpuss]

erm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/6691683.stm

[Xenophon]

erm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/6691683.stm

[PAH]

I'm getting a sense of deja vu here.

[Churchill]

"Road pricing is just another poll tax and will hit less well off drivers the hardest. The intention can only be to try and force them off the road."

Tough tulip!

[Bagpuss]

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

[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.

[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!!