Road of nonsense
Feb. 13th, 2007 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Petition the PM:
[ ] Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy
[ ] No! Don't scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy.
[ ] In fact, increase the proposed vehicle tracking tax and road tax.
[ ] A vehicle tracking and road pricing policy killed my sister, you insensitive clod!
Not sure what you do if you think the pricing is good but the tracking is bad. Start your own petition, I suppose.
All the one-signature petitions make interesting reading, though. I think my favourite so far is "Bring suger filled vending machines back"; a one-line world of sadness, there.
[ ] Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy
[ ] No! Don't scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy.
[ ] In fact, increase the proposed vehicle tracking tax and road tax.
[ ] A vehicle tracking and road pricing policy killed my sister, you insensitive clod!
Not sure what you do if you think the pricing is good but the tracking is bad. Start your own petition, I suppose.
All the one-signature petitions make interesting reading, though. I think my favourite so far is "Bring suger filled vending machines back"; a one-line world of sadness, there.
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Date: 2007-02-13 03:46 pm (UTC)But on what?
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Date: 2007-02-13 03:50 pm (UTC)Or is that just me?
GIC
Date: 2007-02-13 04:04 pm (UTC)Re: GIC
Date: 2007-02-13 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-13 04:17 pm (UTC)I think we should petition to have Worf and Seven given homes at Number Ten.
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Date: 2007-02-13 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-13 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-13 04:24 pm (UTC): You up for some collaborative writing of Cameron/Vaizey slash? I'll start.
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Date: 2007-02-13 04:31 pm (UTC)(Yes please!)
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Date: 2007-02-13 04:51 pm (UTC)(I'll add a continuation link in when you post yours)
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Date: 2007-02-13 04:58 pm (UTC)Or piss off John Read (http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Martial-Arts/) by petitioning for access to the UK Coaching Certificate to be given to anyone who has seen a Bruce Lee film.
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Date: 2007-02-13 03:49 pm (UTC)That could be a six-word story...
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Date: 2007-02-13 03:59 pm (UTC)did you sign the one asking to change the national anthem to spandau ballet's Gold?
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Date: 2007-02-13 04:04 pm (UTC)Do you think signing the silly petitions devalues your signature on the sensible ones, kind of thing? I reckon Blair just throws them all in the bin, frankly. I mean, it doesn't say anywhere "GUARANTEED to be read by teh PM". And even if it did, really, well.
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Date: 2007-02-13 04:11 pm (UTC)Scrap the kiwi fruit idea, i think each resident of east london should be given a baby monkey.
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Date: 2007-02-13 04:17 pm (UTC)The Clockwork Orange is coming true
Date: 2007-02-13 09:20 pm (UTC)"stop staging news events to guide the implementation of government policy and guide social control to levels only yet realised in Orwells 1984."
Although the guy who complained about people taking Rounbabouts one-handed comes a close second.
Welcome to Blair's Britian.
[monkeyhands, distracted from one-handed recipe-copying]
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Date: 2007-02-14 12:21 am (UTC)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/6354103.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/6354103.stm)
(warning: includes references to petitions, custard and BADGERS)
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Date: 2007-02-14 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-14 01:36 pm (UTC)On the substantive, no need to increase road tax, it's only useful as it forces people to report that they own a car, so we can check that they also have insurance and that it's roadworthy and so on. Road pricing though, yes please. A much more flexible policy than charging for the petrol, enables us to bring our freight charges down to a level where a chunk of the country isn't put out of busines by the continent via tax competition, and to make it cheaper to drive routes where we accept that there's no public transport, vs. making it more expensive to drive where there are alternatives and where there is a major congestion problem.