February 08, 2007
On this day:

Fucking wanker

Despite over eight hundred thousand signatures on an e-petition to scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy on a site set up by the Government to enable disenfranchised voters the means to communicate with the Government the fucking wanker Tony Bliar has turned round and given them the finger.
Mr Blair told the MPs that people needed to realise taxpayers could not continually fund new roads.

The arrogant prick! Motorists pay extortionate amounts of tax through VED (car tax) and the tax on petrol which is almost 80% of the price and that is without the tax that has already been paid from their salaries.

What galls me is that the blurb on the site E-petitions states:
Downing Street is working in partnership with the non-partisan charitable project mySociety to provide a service to allow citizens, charities and campaign groups to set up petitions that are hosted on the Downing Street website, enabling anyone to address and deliver a petition directly to the Prime Minister.

This is not the first time that the government has responded with a lengthy, verbose fuck you. Oh, no. The Home Office sent a letter to MCN stating that it hadn't tested speed cameras on motorbikes so MCN set up a petition on the E-petitions site asking for a freeze [on] all speeding fines levied against motorcyclists until such time that the Government tests and approves all speed detection equipment for use specifically on motorcycles.

Yesterday, though MCN posted that Frank Garrett, an ex-policeman who has since turned his hand to speed camera partnerships, admitted under oath that the LTI 20.20 Ultralyte, a popular hand-held speed camera, is not as accurate as claimed. You can read the transcript of the court case where Frank Garrett admits the LTI 20.20 Ultralyte is flawed here. It's a big transcript but worth the read.

My frustration with this government is increasing with all the new "policies" they are coming up with to watch and control the populace. Biometric ID cards where the microchips have only a two year warranty, street lamps with x-ray cameras, vehicle tracking systems for which you will be fined/go to jail if they are found to not be working, RFID chips in bins to see how much rubbish you chuck out; the list is ever growing. Even the Archbishop of York has warned that Britain is becoming a police state and he fled Uganda when Idi Amin ruled!!

I was recently asked what party I will be voting for when the next general election comes, my answer? None of them. None of them have got sensible policies and so I will be voting for an independent; I should stress that is not the UKIP. If everyone was to do so then no major party would get in and the current voting system would need to be overhauled.
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights
and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed - Adolf Hitler

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