Eye in the sky

Fancy having a satellite tracking device fitted in your car so the government knows when you use the roads? It’s a suggestion that’s been talked about for a while and Labour seem to be keen to get it started.

As usual they like the idea of pricing people off the roads but offer no alternative except an expensive and overcrowded public transport system.

They say they’ll reduce the tax on motorists if this comes in, but Tony Blair and Gordon Brown having always said that the heavy road and fuel taxes were to pay for a ‘world class health service’. The NHS is on its knees, so that’s a non starter.

If you live in some London boroughs such as Haringey, you have to pay to park outside your own house, pay when parking near the local shops, face an expanding congestion zone, stump up for road tax and just about the highest petrol price in Europe. Now every journey will be on the meter.

Oh, and somebody is watching what you get up to.

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