Motorists/speed cameras - Labour Vs Conservative

[regmolehusband]

I don't know if it's already been highlighted on here what the Shadow Transport Secretary, Tim Collins, has been saying about this issue. But it needs to be. THERE IS HOPE!

Nowhere is Labour's underlying socialist bigotry against the individual more evident than in their almost pathological hatred of the motorist.

Labour dislike cars simply because they offer individuals and families the power to travel at a time of their choosing, between destinations of their choosing, and with the company of their choosing. Just as socialists want us all to be treated in barracks-like collective hospitals, and educated in large identikit comprehensive schools, so they will not be happy until we all travel en masse along routes and timetables set at the centre.

Conservatives have a simple reply to all this: no, no and no again.

British drivers are the most abused, insulted and downright persecuted in Europe.

We get a very raw deal from this government. The highest fuel taxes in the Western world pay for the worst maintained roads in the EU.

The total tax take from the motorist rose from £31 billion in 1997 to an estimated £45 billion last year – a rise of more than a third.

Motorway congestion has increased by 250% in the last four years. Yet in 2001, not one inch of tarmac was added to the national road network - the first time that's been true since tarmac was invented.

And now Ministers are looking to copy Ken Livingstone's congestion charge in London, spreading its huge cost, damaging economic impact and basic unfairness to towns and cities right across Britain.

Ladies and gentlemen, enough is enough. it's time to call off Labour's war on the motorist

and more

Shadow Transport Secretary Tim Collins has stressed the importance of maintaining effective traffic police patrols on Britain's roads, rather than resorting to more and more speed cameras.

He acknowledged that properly sighted cameras can make a significant and welcome difference to road safety, while inappropriately located ones appear to be linked to a rise and not a fall in road deaths.

But Mr Collins told Conservatives.com: "This illustrates how essential it is to undertake a regular review of where speed cameras are placed. It is also very clear that no sensible road safety strategy would involve replacing experienced and alert traffic police officers with cameras

Roll on the election!!!

[Byff]

Wasn't it the conservatives that introduced the fuel tax escalator?

[regmolehusband]

Wasn't it the conservatives that introduced the fuel tax escalator?

and Labour carried it on gleefully......I recall somebody then in the Conservative opposition saying something like "if you get on an escalator then you have to know when to get off"

[JohnL]

But it was labour who stopped the escalator, and the conservatives who introduced Gatsos.

[Mark.S]

Funnily enough, a flyer from our local conservative MP (Simon Burns) arrived through the door this evening.

Pleasently surprised to read mostly pro-car sentiment. Particular emphasis on tearing apart a recent suggestion to introduce tolls on the A12.

[agent006]

Much as i'd like to vote for them, there's no point, Labour and Lib-Dem are the only ones with any chance to get in for our seat. Roger(?) Taylor put pay to a conservative being elected for a very long time.