PJC Journal – Original

The Liberal Democrats have released a discussion document for their autumn conference which promotes the introduction of national road pricing.

They are delusional if they believe this proposal will endear them to the voting public and they clearly do not understand the economics of road pricing, says The Drivers Alliance.

The document entitled “Fast Track Britain: Building a Transport System for the 21st Century”  clearly details their policy will be to introduce mass road pricing with vehicle tracking. It says:

Motorway and Trunk Road Pricing
2.4.11 Liberal Democrats propose a motorway and trunk road pricing scheme covering all motorways and major trunk roads in Britain.

2.4.12 During our first parliament we would undertake preparatory work:
- Detailed consultation on the design of the scheme, including levels of charging and data privacy issues.

2.4.13 The key aspects of our proposal are:

- Road pricing should be seen as part of a package of measures – it is not a solution on its own.
- To tax differently, not more. Our scheme will be revenue neutral for the average motorist (now where have we heard that one recently), with the revenue from road pricing used to remove VED entirely and reduce fuel duty.

So,”to tax differently, not more” sounds fair but they are forgetting the massive cost of the technology needed to make this work. Every car in the land will need a sophisticated GPS tracking unit which can record your individual journey and time.(no doubt at some enormous cost to the motorist), It would then need to relay all this information back to a central processing office to prepare your monthly bill (no mention of costs in this document, so it could be much more than the £1.30 per mile envisaged by NuLab). Records of your journeys will be kept in case of dispute and for government information if they so desire. (Desire? Mandatory more like).

The cost of collecting a road pricing tax far outweighs its benefit and cannot under any circumstances be considered an efficient means of charging for road use.

The only really efficient road user tax is on fuel (which is already too high). This is unavoidable, fair, environmentally sound, very efficient and cheap to collect. The more you drive, the more you pay.

Road pricing has no future in a fair and just society, so why are these supposedly intelligent people still pushing it?

So as you can see, the LibDems want more regulation and draconian rules under the guise of Green policies, more ability to collect data for the Government, the EU and their corporate sponsors.

Just so you know, this is not really a LibDem policy, although they would like you to believe that, because Europe have already set in motion the introduction of road pricing for
the whole of Europe and the UK signed up to DIRECTIVE 2004/52/EC which
says their must be interoperability of electronic road toll systems in
the Community, all watched and tracked by the EU's lame duck Galileo Satellite system. So its also something that the Tories will be forced to implement as well, but they wont tell you that will they.

In the modern Corporatist UK, ruled over by the equally corrupt and Corporatist EU, everything
(including you) becomes the property of the state to regulate and
control as it deems fit. Our freedom is already slipping away into
totalitarianism. How long can people continue to kid themselves
otherwise?

The Only home of Libertarianism in the UK

Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.

p.s. The Drivers Alliance was started by Peter Roberts, the Telford man
who started the 1.8m signature Downing Street petition opposing road
pricing.

Pop over and take a look.  Peter is a very hard working guy, this
could easily become the Taxpayers Alliance of the motoring world.

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Front Page (Sterling Main Street)

The Liberal Democrats have released a discussion document for their autumn conference which promotes the introduction of national road pricing.

They are delusional if they believe this proposal will endear them to the voting public and they clearly do not understand the economics of road pricing, says The Drivers Alliance.

The document entitled “Fast Track Britain: Building a Transport System for the 21st Century”  clearly details their policy will be to introduce mass road pricing with vehicle tracking. It says:

Motorway and Trunk Road Pricing
2.4.11 Liberal Democrats propose a motorway and trunk road pricing scheme covering all motorways and major trunk roads in Britain.

2.4.12 During our first parliament we would undertake preparatory work:
- Detailed consultation on the design of the scheme, including levels of charging and data privacy issues.

2.4.13 The key aspects of our proposal are:

- Road pricing should be seen as part of a package of measures – it is not a solution on its own.
- To tax differently, not more. Our scheme will be revenue neutral for the average motorist (now where have we heard that one recently), with the revenue from road pricing used to remove VED entirely and reduce fuel duty.

So,”to tax differently, not more” sounds fair but they are forgetting the massive cost of the technology needed to make this work. Every car in the land will need a sophisticated GPS tracking unit which can record your individual journey and time.(no doubt at some enormous cost to the motorist), It would then need to relay all this information back to a central processing office to prepare your monthly bill (no mention of costs in this document, so it could be much more than the £1.30 per mile envisaged by NuLab). Records of your journeys will be kept in case of dispute and for government information if they so desire. (Desire? Mandatory more like).

The cost of collecting a road pricing tax far outweighs its benefit and cannot under any circumstances be considered an efficient means of charging for road use.

The only really efficient road user tax is on fuel (which is already too high). This is unavoidable, fair, environmentally sound, very efficient and cheap to collect. The more you drive, the more you pay.

Road pricing has no future in a fair and just society, so why are these supposedly intelligent people still pushing it?

So as you can see, the LibDems want more regulation and draconian rules under the guise of Green policies, more ability to collect data for the Government, the EU and their corporate sponsors.

Just so you know, this is not really a LibDem policy, although they would like you to believe that, because Europe have already set in motion the introduction of road pricing for
the whole of Europe and the UK signed up to DIRECTIVE 2004/52/EC which
says their must be interoperability of electronic road toll systems in
the Community, all watched and tracked by the EU's lame duck Galileo Satellite system. So its also something that the Tories will be forced to implement as well, but they wont tell you that will they.

In the modern Corporatist UK, ruled over by the equally corrupt and Corporatist EU, everything
(including you) becomes the property of the state to regulate and
control as it deems fit. Our freedom is already slipping away into
totalitarianism. How long can people continue to kid themselves
otherwise?

The Only home of Libertarianism in the UK

Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.

p.s. The Drivers Alliance was started by Peter Roberts, the Telford man
who started the 1.8m signature Downing Street petition opposing road
pricing.

Pop over and take a look.  Peter is a very hard working guy, this
could easily become the Taxpayers Alliance of the motoring world.

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Philby: intelligence service aux mains d'un agent soviétique

With every telephone call, swipe of a card and click of a mouse,
information is being recorded, compiled and stored about Britain’s
citizens.

An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has now uncovered
just how much personal data is being collected about individuals by the
Government, law enforcement agencies and private companies each day.

In one week, the average person living in Britain has 3,254 pieces
of personal information stored about him or her, most of which is kept
in databases for years and in some cases indefinitely.

This newspaper’s findings come days after the Government published
plans to grant local authorities and other public bodies access to the
email and internet records of millions. Phone companies already retain
data about their customers and give it to 650 public bodies on request.

One commenter from the Telegraph article asks the question:

another asks:

Well lets see, NuLab were never given the mandate from the British people to do this, the LibDems want more regulation and draconian rules under the guise of Green policies, and the Tories want to make it easier for the army of snoopers to gather the information.

They have all forgotten that they are there to govern, not to rule.

Under a Tory government this will only get worse, not better.

Dominic Grieve says nothing about getting rid of the ridiculous Police targets,
he says nothing of removing the 3000+ new 'criminal' offences
introduced by NuLab, he says nothing of rolling back any of the 126,000
draconian laws introduced over the past 10 years, or curbing the
excesses of Local Authorities, he only speaks of using those laws
designed to fight terrorism and making it easier to use them on you.

Yep, those libertarian Tories. They're really interested in your civil liberties, aren't they?

In the modern Corporatist UK, ruled over by the EU, everything (including you) becomes the property of the state to regulate and control as it deems fit. Our freedom is already slipping away into totalitarianism. How long can people continue to kid themselves otherwise?

The Only home of Libertarianism in the UK

Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.

Related Reading:

Stop the War Coalition: Main Page, Osama Bin Laden, John Rees, Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Great Britain Provisional Centre, Committee

Old Yishuv: Musta'Arabi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Four Holy Cities, Jerusalem, Main Page, Safed, Tiberias,Jaffa, Deluge Myth

Philby: intelligence service aux mains d'un agent soviétique

Un tour du monde des écoliers, à portée de main

Indian Literature: Sanskrit literature, Main Page, Mahabharata, Classical language, Sangam literature, P?li Canon, Vedas, Indian epic poetry, Assamese ... Bengali literature, Bhojpuri language

With every telephone call, swipe of a card and click of a mouse,
information is being recorded, compiled and stored about Britain’s
citizens.

An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has now uncovered
just how much personal data is being collected about individuals by the
Government, law enforcement agencies and private companies each day.

In one week, the average person living in Britain has 3,254 pieces
of personal information stored about him or her, most of which is kept
in databases for years and in some cases indefinitely.

This newspaper’s findings come days after the Government published
plans to grant local authorities and other public bodies access to the
email and internet records of millions. Phone companies already retain
data about their customers and give it to 650 public bodies on request.

One commenter from the Telegraph article asks the question:

another asks:

Well lets see, NuLab were never given the mandate from the British people to do this, the LibDems want more regulation and draconian rules under the guise of Green policies, and the Tories want to make it easier for the army of snoopers to gather the information.

They have all forgotten that they are there to govern, not to rule.

Under a Tory government this will only get worse, not better.

Dominic Grieve says nothing about getting rid of the ridiculous Police targets,
he says nothing of removing the 3000+ new 'criminal' offences
introduced by NuLab, he says nothing of rolling back any of the 126,000
draconian laws introduced over the past 10 years, or curbing the
excesses of Local Authorities, he only speaks of using those laws
designed to fight terrorism and making it easier to use them on you.

Yep, those libertarian Tories. They're really interested in your civil liberties, aren't they?

In the modern Corporatist UK, ruled over by the EU, everything (including you) becomes the property of the state to regulate and control as it deems fit. Our freedom is already slipping away into totalitarianism. How long can people continue to kid themselves otherwise?

The Only home of Libertarianism in the UK

Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.

Related Reading:

Philby: intelligence service aux mains d'un agent soviétique

Un tour du monde des écoliers, à portée de main

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Stop the War Coalition: Main Page, Osama Bin Laden, John Rees, Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Great Britain Provisional Centre, Committee

Driving Change: How the Best Companies are Preparing for the 21st Century

Insects cause climate change.

That is the latest insane claim by eco-nuts about the reason for climate change.

More
than 100 of Southeast Asia's hardiest bugs measured up this week in
Bangkok, where experts met to discuss new ways of controlling the
pests, which they say are a major contributor to global warming.

Suchart Leelayuthyotin, director of the Thailand Pest Management Association, told AFP bugs are one of the main contributors to global warming because of the CO2 they emit when passing wind.

More
than 600 insect killers and entymologists from Indonesia, the
Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand convened in a Bangkok
hotel for the biannual event to share their knowledge of the latest
killer chemicals and techniques. The industry is worth an estimated 3.5
billion dollars this year to Thailand alone.

So what we really have is another branch of the eco-nuts who have decided that in order to make money, you have to blame your target for being responsible for global warming.

If the fight against climate change seems impossibly huge, Suchart admitted the war on bugs is at least as hard.

source (Agence France-Presse – AFP)

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