From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V6 #23 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Friday, February 9 2007 Volume 06 : Number 023 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:47:20 -0000 From: "Steve Griffiths" Subject: seven-seas STOP THE GOVERNMENTS NEW ROAD TAX!! Hi All, apologies for sending this and those outside of the uk but it affects us all in the uk and a lot of us drive great distances to go to gigs, etc. Steve G. > THIS IS IN ALL OUR INTERESTS TO SIGN TO STOP THE GOVERNMENTS NEW ROAD TAX! > > > > Please sign the petition!!! > > (otherwise you'll be walking to work or paying a fortune for the > > privelidge to drive!!!) > > > > > 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 goverment 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 - > > > > > > > > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **************Bunnymen Online Presence******************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ http://www.villiersterrace.com/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stevedoughty/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V6 #23 *******************************