Government Ending War On Motorist !

[Ceylon]

And the green party start their clamour against anything that could be seen as soft on motorists. fkwits!

The worrying thing is that as this country gets ever more PC the chances of greens being elected increases, and they could form part of a future coalition. God help us...single policy politics is always dangerous.

[k-ink]

No news here. This will affect no one. As you were.

[madala]

What a load of twaddle....yeah sure the government are encouraging Councils to cut back on parking charges and the moon is made of blue cheese.

In Ealing our parking permit charge has gone up by 60% as of the first of January from £25 to £40 per annum.....who knows maybe they were going to put it up by 100% or more and then they were encouraged to only put it up 60%.....thieving no good 'feckers the lot of them.

[Lordglenmorangie]

Definition of the word War : to carry on active hostility or contention : yep that sounds about right and we vote for them

[ShadownINja]

They're ending the war on motorists because they've pretty much won it at £1.30/litre.

[edo]

FranKinFezza said:

Total horlicks if they want to end the "war on motorists" they would stop
the charging of vat ON TOP OF fuel duty tax on a tax (which i thought was illegal?)

Or scrap the useless VED and absorb it to general taxation seeing as thats what its
used for anyhow. and the disks are useless as an officer has only to enquire
on the pnc to check the motors status. making the disk redundant and a waste
of paper so they could dress it up as a green initiative.

+1

[GhostDriver]

ShadownINja said:

They're ending the war on motorists because they've pretty much won it at £1.30/litre.

If it ends at £1.30 then I am an albino eskimo.

[ewenm]

k-ink said:

No news here. This will affect no one. As you were.

Absolutely. Housebuilders and council parking committees will continue to do what was previously mandated, just the government can now say "not our fault!".

[Dan Friel]

ewenm said:

k-ink said:

No news here. This will affect no one. As you were.

Absolutely. Housebuilders and council parking committees will continue to do what was previously mandated, just the government can now say "not our fault!".

Yup. That's "localism" for you...

[Pesty]

thinfourth2 said:

Its a start.

It was never the brightest of ideas building houses with no parking as folk just park on the street and argue with the nieghbours

When moving back up here I left the task to the Mrs and MIL to search for houses. excitedly they told me they had found a new house and it was perfect.

great I drive 150 miles up to view this house as I drive up to the house I notice a little car park at the begining of the estate. Hmm whats all that about I think. The house itself had one parking spot. The roads were so narrow you couldnt park outside if you wanted to but you were not allowed to anyway.

I pointed out to the mrs that we had 3 cars and was she happy walking to a carpark down the street every time she wanted to go somewhere... that ended that.

silly silly idea. I bit of common sense at last from a government.

[Pesty]

GhostDriver said:

ShadownINja said:

They're ending the war on motorists because they've pretty much won it at £1.30/litre.

If it ends at £1.30 then I am an albino eskimo.

1.40 to 1.50 they were predicting by July he other day

[ShadownINja]

GhostDriver said:

ShadownINja said:

They're ending the war on motorists because they've pretty much won it at £1.30/litre.

If it ends at £1.30 then I am an albino eskimo.

Who said the price would stop at £1.30?

[JagLover]

The ending of the restrictions on parking spaces for new developments is a welcome end to a bonkers labour policy.

But ending control over LA parking charges is as likely to increase the charges as reduce them (depending on your area).

[frosted]

Maybe this will bring life to high streets and not just industrial estates with parking spaces