The grim future of road tax?

Wouldn't worry about it, not wanting to bring politics to retro rides (now there's a horrible thought), but labour won't be in power long enough to implement a re-decoration of chequers, let alone road pricing schemes.

Erm, the first road pricing trails were carried out under the former conservative adminstration back in 1995.

Party politics is nothing between the two of them on issues like this.

don't you think you sound a little paranoid?

The security forces can already track your every move from your mobile phone, as well as being able to use it as a covert listening device. The mic is always on, and they don't even need to know the IMEI or phone number to activate it....

Every email you send or recieve, every web page you go to and (astoundingly in full detail) every Google search you do is stored and indexed. In fact Google store all thiers perpetually.

Every credit card transaction is logged and recorded, what you bought and where you bought it.

etc etc etc

We live in a society where there is already so much information stored about every individual that any scheme that adds to it simply makes it a bigger job for "the Iluminati" or "the Jewish Conspiricy" or whatever cack you care to believe in to actually search through it all.

All I'm bothered about is "will this cost me money".

The local congestion charge scheme will cost me £7.80 a day by 2011. Now that I know I do not want.

It would be easy to be a member of the opposing party. All you have to do is make weak criticisms of the government in power constantly.

Cripes.

*steps away from the extreme dwarf pr0n*

I know this already, it just got a little lost in my rant. - sorry.

The point I was trying to make was it's just a little further up from the thin end if the wedge.

The wedge that is trying , step by step, to drive us off the roads by making it so awkward/expensive, that only the priveliged few ( including MP's ) will be entitled/be able to afford to use cars.

Maybe I am a little paranoid, but not without reason I think.

If I had no ties in this country, believe me I would have left a long time ago, but with my own small buisness to run and 2 young kids, whom I couldn't bear to leave behind, it isn't feasible ATM, so I guess i'll just have to moan about and carry on as usual !!

The thing is tho, I can see a very real possibility that my kids will never know the freedom that is picking up the keys, to whatever car you have, getting in and just 'going for a drive' purely for the sake of it.
And that makes me sad !

as far as the black box is concerned, a plus side is that you wouldnt need to shell out for a tracker on your beloved retro! the gov will know where the traveller thief has taken it and will therefore deploy the police to go and arrest the perp!
could be worse, they could start installing cameras inside your car like the insurance companies in usa do for people who want to lower their premium

I am not entirely convinced that this story has any basis in fact. The cost of the technology is such that, having developed it, you wouldn't trial it, you would just implement and deal with the bugs as you go.

The other thing to remember is that what the opposition say they will do and what they actually do when they get in will be two markedly different things. When they had the bye-election in Crewe shortly after Labour had binned the lower tax rate, that curse word Cameron was there and someone asked him if he would reinstate the lower rate if and when he got into power. The answer was along the lines of "Erm, well, we would need to consider blah blah, financial climate waffle, may be other ways etc." None of that constituted a yes.

I wonder who will get the job of changing the film in the camera