UK to Impose New Tax on Speeding and Parking Tickets

Just when you thought life had got expensive enough to use roads in Britain I learn today from goldiron in the states & theNewspaper that our government is planning a new source of extra revenue from road users. Of course it is not officially described as a tax at all oh no. And it will not apply to ‘law abiding citizens’. I have to say though that my idea of law abiding citizens includes the millions of people who occasionally exceed speed limits and get a ticket from a lovely ‘safety’ aka speed camera even though they have done no harm to anyone or anything. But hey, what does that matter when a new revenue stream is up for consideration. And, to be as fair as I can, this new idea is officially just a ‘victim’s surcharge’ which is of course a much more caring and righteous thing than a new tax for riders and drivers. The great British public will have to make it’s own mind up about what this really is. But for what it’s worth, I think that yet again this isn’t really about helping road crash victims which I’m all for, this is really yet another way of screwing another stream of cash from the pockets of the ‘selfish’ and ‘lazy’ planet destroying group of people who use privately owned and funded modes of motorised transport. The intriguing thing about this group of individuals is that it happens to comprise the vast majority of citizens in Britain – and most developed nations…