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Petition Against PAYG Road Tax - Posted on 2007-02-08 12:22:59

bubblesloves69
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Just been sent this email........ There are only 12 days left to register your objection to the 'Pay as you go' road tax which closes to petitions on the 20th February 2007. The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody about it. Therefore at this time only 671,354 people have signed it so far and 750,000 signatures are required to stop them introducing it. 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. Democracy in action? The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your bike / car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about Ł200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was Ł28 for a rural florist and Ł194 for a delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids to school paid Ł86 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 care about our freedom and stopping the constant bashing of the driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible." http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/ PLEASE sign up...

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	Petition Against PAYG Road Tax - Posted on 2007-02-08 14:32:31
Brother_Of_Sab 1000cc Pro Racer Joined: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 Posts: 201 Location: Newcastle United Kingdom	Done It

	Petition Against PAYG Road Tax - Posted on 2007-02-08 14:47:07
daisyduke 1300cc Superstar Joined: Saturday, February 04, 2006 Posts: 4574 Location: Bolton United Kingdom	did this a while ago

	Petition Against PAYG Road Tax - Posted on 2007-02-08 15:54:53
bear 1300cc Superstar Joined: Friday, October 29, 2004 Posts: 5790 Location: cumbria United Kingdom	done it already tho i reckon it wont be of much use to be honest..... the way to get results in matters with the government is by writing letters. By law all letters to a government department (or mp) must be replied too. this causes the department much stress and expence (all correspondance is paid for out of their budget). it dosnt take many letters to make any government back off on new policy as they have the evidence of voters feelings in front of em, whereas a petition needs no reply and will no doubt be filed in the bin or in the case of electronic petitions simply be erased. if this dosnt go ahead it will be because of the expence of the equipment and implementation of the law, cant see folk flocking to buy these bits of equipment can you ? but if you are really concerned write a letter to your MP and also to the dept of transport. encourage as many folk as you can to do the same. Give the bastids a headache!

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