The road pricing policy has been in the new a lot lately and 1.8 million people have signed the online petition
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
protesting against its implementation.This emphasises what is wrong with the current government, namely
If they are worried about congestion then why not raise fuel duty? The proposed road tax will cost billions to implement and will be a very inefficient way of raising funds. Also, it will further transform the country into a big brother state, with the powers that be having the ability to monitor your every move. On the subject of waste there was an interesting program on last night about
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9554
http://www.dh.gov.uk/ProcurementAndProposals/PublicPrivatePartnership/PrivateFinanceInitiative/fs/en
This seems a horribly inefficient way to pay for schools/hospitals etx while allowing Gordon Brown to appear as the Iron Chancellor.
Winston Churchill once said
http://web.univ-pau.fr/~parsons/45Elections.html
Socialism is, in its essence, an attack not only upon British enterprise, but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy, tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils. A Free Parliament - look at that - a Free Parliament is odious to the Socialist doctrinaire. Have we not heard Mr. Herbert Morrison descant upon his plans to curtail Parliamentary procedure and pass laws simply by resolutions of broad principle in the House of Commons, afterwards to be left by Parliament to the executive and to the bureaucrats to elaborate and enforce by departmental regulations? As for Sir Stafford Cripps on "Parliament in the Socialist State," I have not time to read you what he said, but perhaps it will meet the public eye during the election campaign.
But I will go farther. I declare to you, from the bottom of my heart, that no Socialist system can be established without a political police. Many of those who are advocating Socialism or voting Socialist to-day will be horrified at this idea. That is because they are short-sighted, that is because they do not see where their theories are leading them.
No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. And where would the ordinary simple folk - the common people, as they like to call them in America - where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip?
However, I can't see hug a hoodie "Dave" Cameron being any better, maybe it's time to give these lot a go
http://www.newparty.co.uk/