Road Pricing

[drpete]

This has been doing the rounds - it's a petition to Number 10 against the proposed NuLab road pricing initiative.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

It's up for another few days.

Comments

[miss_soap]

No. 10 are apparently having a shit-fit over the whole petitions on the website thing. They did make some salient points though, that the petition wording is inflammtory and makes no case *for* the charging, i.e. driving down emissions by encouraging people not to use their cars, etc. It focuses purely on 'Big Brother' paranoias, which is less than balanced.

Intention, and outcome

[purpletigron]

The Government have, however, determined the wording of their own policy. The petitions site explicitly doesn't attempt to give all possible shades of opinion on a given issues. Instead, it allows anyone to post their own wording - I presume this is what the MySociety providers agreed with the Government for the site

[ramtops]

aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[drpete]

You've seen this a bit too often? My apologies.