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If you drive a car, van, etc., 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 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


Anybody who believes this probably thinks that alice in wonderland
is someone's biography.

It will be at least 5 years before the infrastructure for this is ready.

By that time the boxes will cost 20 quid each.

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tim..... wrote:

It will be at least 5 years before the infrastructure for this is ready.

By that time the boxes will cost 20 quid each.


The national infrastructure of roadside telemetry and IT systems to talk
to them however will cost £20Bn by the time they can make some pretence
at working, and we will have paid for it all through the back door...

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...........It will be at least 5 years before the infrastructure for this is ready.

By that time the boxes will cost 20 quid each.

tim
Plus a tax to cover the Olympic Games overspend.
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...........It will be at least 5 years before the infrastructure for
this is ready.

By that time the boxes will cost 20 quid each.

tim

Plus a tax to cover the Olympic Games overspend.


Ggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...............




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tim..... wrote:

Anybody who believes this probably thinks that alice in wonderland
is someone's biography.

It will be at least 5 years before the infrastructure for this is ready.

By that time the boxes will cost 20 quid each.


I'm sure they will. But what will *we* have to pay for them?


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