do you trust the government with the proposed road charging scheme?

Question

what is to stop the sat tracking devices to be fitted to car for the propsed road charging scheme not be open to fraud?
and what protection can the government ensure that the information will not be used by the wrong people ; ie you are out for the day and certain people know this ,tell someone else and your house get burgled.
I think there are alot more problems to this scheme than the government have thought about.
The new biometric passport have alredy been hacked and so has chip and pin!
can we trust them with this technology ?

i don't have a paperboy or a milkman

Answer 1

Hi. No you can't. There is nothing to stop the government (after a safe period has passed) putting up the road pricing in the name of the green issue. The real reason for this is to take even more money from the hardworking public. There is also the possibility that they will use the data for fineing people for speeding etc.

Answer 2

No I don't trust the government they are not doing this for our environment/safety/or benefit they are doing it to make more money to cover costs when they have overspent on other ridiculous schemes. It is all very well penalising cars and lorries etc but not until they have sorted out the public transports issues ie the lack of it. You can never totally ensure that information won't fall into the wrong hands but extra staff and security will have to be introduced which will cost more money and in the long run it won't benefit anybody. If our governments cared about what they were doing they wouldn't have based our transport industry on the roads in the first place they would have kept it on the trains but at the time, the short term quick money saving solution was road transport. They knew these problems would arise but didn't care because it would not be their problem in years to come which is exactly what is happening now with this road charging scheme. Our Governments rarely do anything for the benefit of our country but schemes to get them voted in at the next election.

Answer 3

I have noticed through the past 30 years a pattern forming.
They tell us they are doing things for our own good, even give benefits. BUT all these things are only leading to big brother and the
for our own good and benefits thing is only to make us comfortably numb. Ben Franklin had a quote something about those who trade freedom for security have neither freedom or security.
The government has had plans for a lot of technology available but is slowly introducing it for the simple reason that it is easier to get us to accept it. They know that if they just announced one day that we all had to go get the chip and go to the cashless society and be 'tracked' we would not accept it.
There is an analogy, if you put a frog in boiling hot water it will leap out. If you put a frog in cold water and slowly turn up the heat he will cook to death.

The USA says it wants to do something about the borders simply to shut people up; at the same time they are building the Freedom Highway to go from Mexico to Canada. They say some other country will be getting the tolls from the road and not America.

Have a milkman, don't get the newspaper and not paranoid

Answer 4

No, we can not trust them. The money will NOT be used to improve trains or buses. It will be used to prop up money-draining departments such as the DSS and the various wars in which our forces are engaged, which are using thousands of millions of pounds per day.

Nothing will alter, except that ordinary people will be unable to afford to drive on day trips and will have to use the buses and trains. Business users (company cars, delivery trucks, company directors) will carry on as usual.

The trains and buses (which will NOT have altered in any way whatsoever) will be rammed with people, crowds left on platforms as groaning trains chug away and we shall be the laughing stock of the world.

When you think of all the ludicrous government (Tory or Labour) initiatives that have failed - biopassports, £5,000 fines for school non-attenders (not one person in the UK ever fined this much, despite half a million truants a day!), frog-marching to cashpoints (has never been ONE recorded incidence of this happening), privatising buses and trains (disaster!), selling council houses (hundreds of thousands of people in b&b's), failing to build prisons (criminals literally wandering the streets), etc., etc - the idea tha this cockamamie road pricing scheme will work is laughable.

I shall say no more - I need a cup of tea and a sit down!

Answer 5

This government has proved time ad time again that it cannot be trusted on a single issue. The proposed road tax delivers a double whammy for drivers: they can spy on us and bleed us dry at the same time. No driver should agree to pay this tax. They can't haul everyone before the courts.

Answer 6

Trust the government? How long does it take to learn?

The traitors in the guise of a UK government who fabricated evidence in order to wage an illegal war at the behest of the US are capable of anything if they believe that they have a chance of success. I.T. contracts are mainly given to one firm together with open ended budgets. I would trust neither their honesty nor their competence to perform any function of their office.

Answer 7

i'm bored stiff with Labour sticking their nostril into my existence, each and every of the crap approximately utilising public transport, whilst it expenses too lots, is under no circumstances on time, and is basically too inconvenient. it incredibly is why Blair have been given on a Lear jet, the different day, just to circulate to his constituency and decrease back. they're all hypocrites treating the well-known public like dumb sheep. nicely they extra acceptable no longer come to my homestead requesting a vote.

Answer 8

I would not trust this government with a Boots home brew kit, but I think perhaps your question should be put to a higher place i.e. your MP, but it is a very good question.

Answer 9

If we ditched every proposal in the world that could be open to fraud, then nothing would ever get off the ground.
Your milk man and paper boy know you are away. Let's ban them.
Trust me... the government have put MUCH more thought into this scheme than you have.

Answer 10

do I trust the Government?

er when has Tony Blair not lied to this country?