This is in response to the new tory proposals that want to impose heavy taxes on larger cars, more car park fees, taxes on internal flights, etc.
Yet they are leaving us with no alternative but to use these!! If I want to go to Newcastle, London or Scotland (which I do relatively frequently) then the train ticket prices are astronomical, sometimes as much as a flight, and I often have to stand in a crowded and packed carraige. (It's actually not much better than the train network in India, where I've just spent the last couple of months, and believe me for a so called 'rich' country as ours that is a dire insult.)
Also getting around anywhere by train or bus is often difficult and really expensive, the bus networks outside of major cities are a joke.
So what are we expected to do here? I'm all for saving the envioronment, but squeezing more money out of us is not the way to do it.
Should we all just stay home and not go anywhere? That seems to be what they want.
2007-09-12
22:16:09
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