So, you want to park outside your own house...

[jumpy]

...for free do you?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6082690.stm

over my dead body!

Typical pie-in-the-sky thinking from the LibDems
I suppose all the money magiced out of thin air in this proposed scheme will be used to fund a convivial and reliably organised seat on public transport for every man, woman and child in the country then. No? Thought not.
Buses or trains, dirty, crowded, smelly, violent and perhaps most important of all; FA use if you want to get anywhere on time.

some comments:

Typical of a Lib Dem council.
I live in Cornwall and have a Lib Dem council which, as soon as they were in power decided to give themselves high pay increases and reduced the pay to council workers.

Will the council in Surrey do somethoing about the Buses and Taxis which also pollute the air.
Peter Fulcher, Pool, United Kingdom

In the end you can look at the information any way you want but the amount of petrol your car uses does not make any difference to the amount of room in which you need to park it in. Another money making exercise, you'd think they could come up with something else after all parking permits are just another way to get money off of people who have verylittle choice about it.
Amanda, Aber

I sold my car as unnecessary and cycle to work or use public transport, but I still completely disagree with any tax aimed at big cars. Why should a driver who does 20000 miles a year in a small car pay less environmental tax than someone who drives 5000 miles a year in a big one? We already have a great tax which penalises you for high mileage or for driving a gas guzzling car: petrol tax.
Chris, Reading

and finally:

We pay enough taxes already without having to pay taxes for parking our cars outside our own homes, what next a tax for when it rains.
Welsh Dragon, Port Talbot, United Kingdom

I couldn't agree more with that last one. (thought Welsh Dragon would be particularily hard hit, seeing as it rains all the bloody time in Wales hehe)

When it commes to commuting to work the sad reality is if I was allowed to work from home by my 1960's style boss then I wouldn't really need a car at all, unfortunately pigs will fly before this happens as the phb (pointy haired boss) thinks 'eye to eye' contact with your employees is where it's at in terms of office management. The fool.
I have a kickass PC at home with a good broadband connection and a much more comfortable leather swivel chair also, and with things like msn and VoIP networks I could talk to my co-workers for less than the cost of boiling the kettle to make a cup of tea - which I could also have, as opposed to that godawful stuff that comes out of the drinks machine here.
So much for progress, unless you're refering to the continual hikes in taxation this and successive governments seem to think are nescessary, in which case 'onward and upward!"
Typical money spinner politics aimed at the soft target - the motorist.

BLEARGH.

[danlisa]

What's a good country to move to? This is getting too much!

[The Avon Lady]

I mentioned Thatcher on another thread today. Found this: .

Heh. :p

[STEED]

Originally Posted by danlisa

What's a good country to move to? This is getting too much!

I hear Iceland a nice place.

[HunterICX]

*I sold my car as unnecessary and cycle to work or use public transport, but I still completely disagree with any tax aimed at big cars. Why should a driver who does 20000 miles a year in a small car pay less environmental tax than someone who drives 5000 miles a year in a big one? We already have a great tax which penalises you for high mileage or for driving a gas guzzling car: petrol tax.
Chris, Reading*

Big one? does he means SUV's?
if so, well I agree that they higher the taxes on those petrol sucking jeeps, especially the ones with those iron bars on their front. they are OVERSIZED , Dangerous and they piss me off in traffic.

the car is build for Rough terrain duty. NOT FOR CITY's! but I dont understand the driver in the first place why did you buy it? you could save money on an smaller luxirous car then such oversized cock enlargement. because thats what they are when you see them driving in the city, because just look at it how unhandy the handling of those things are!
I would ban those oversized SUV's out of the city's.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by jumpy

...for free do you?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6082690.stm

over my dead body!

Typical pie-in-the-sky thinking from the LibDems

And that's why they will never win the General Election.

[Godalmighty83]

but in the end the libdems arent going to be elected so it doesnt matter.

[tycho102]

Maggie was awesome. I don't know why the British hate her. Her son is a bit of a pooser, but she was a tough broad at the right time and the right place. Really cleaned up the economy. If anything, Britain needs another strong woman to get that country lined out.

<insert some kind of pithy little comment about European women being worth 50 times more than the European men, here>

As for the tax, sounds like something our Democrats would do. I agree that the SUV's are gas guzzlers. I would absolutely love to see us move to a hydrogen economy -- probably internal combustion to start with, and moving over to PEM fuel cell as the technology matures.

[lesrae]

A lot of people in the busier UK cities already pay to park outside their houses, for example in Bath where I used to live it's now £60 a year for a permit. The idea was to prevent commuters from out of the city from taking up all of the available street parking spaces (which they did). It was a pain to pay the extra, but at least you had a fighting chance of parking within half a mile of your house.

The main effect is now that when you drive into the city you see all of the commuter's cars parked on the outskirts of the city, very amusing in a city like Bath which is in a valley between 2 steep hills :O)

The latest row is about increasing the charge for cars which create more pollution, part of the current environmental push. My attitude is pretty much that if you want to live in the city and drive a gas guzzler then that's your choice - pay the extra fee. If you can afford a 4WD or high performance car for fashion or street-cred then you can afford to pay an extra couple of hundred quid a year to park it.

[TteFAboB]

Why don't we stop pretending and raise taxes to 100% of everybody's income already?

[XabbaRus]

This is a proposal for those who don't have a drive way and already park their ar in the street, ie a lot of terraced houses and pay for the right to park there car in a designated space. They already pay. It's not as if everyone is going to be charged for parking their car. I do agree it is extreme as it seems anyone with a 4 x 4 or a nice car is targetted and villified.

[Yahoshua]

If someone wants to own a bright yellow humvee, why the hell does it concern you? You don't own it, you don't drive it, so leave him alone!

So he pays a bit more for gas? Big deal.

And if the guy rents an apt. They already paid for their parking space.

If a person owns a home but doesn't own a driveway, they get a place to park in front of their home. So what?

This is nothing more than a money-grab by politicians. It has really gone overboard with this one.

Either these people need to be taken out of office or some heads need to roll.

[JSLTIGER]

Jeez...is there anything that they don't tax you folks for in the UK? TVs, parking in front of your own home??? No wonder we revolted...

[ASWnut101]

Tea, maby?.....:hmm:

[XabbaRus]

Yashoua in towns people who live in flats and houses that have no off street parking and park in the street have paid for a long time. They may own the flat but last I checked public roads were public so they are charged a rent by the council. Fair enough. The issue is a punitive increase of the parking rates.

Thing is what you are getting here are Daily Mail articles, never the most balanced view I'd say a shade away from the BNP. Honestly Britain isn't that bad, other countries in Europe have high taxes too.

I do get a little fed up with everything negative being posted about the UK.

There are plenty worse places to live. If you don't like it leave, but where will you go?