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I've just been reading through the ABD website, and came across this:

"Labour's plans to tax and penalise car use are leading Britain into a former Soviet-style regime” “Labour is using the car as a milch cow in a most dishonest way” “The [Labour] Government's [anti-car] measures will take away what the car has given — mobility with freedom to travel as and when people please” “Planned levies, tolls, charges, penalties and electronic speed cameras are, in reality, taxes. They are intended to raise revenue in addition to planned new and existing taxes on motoring” “Road tolls are threatening disaster, cutting off areas of the country and towns, because it will become too expensive to transport goods... The impact threatens to be very serious...There will be no-go areas” “Graduated vehicle excise duty ... poses a threat to Jaguar, Bentley, Rolls Royce and Land Rover. If a nation does not have a healthy home market for the cars it produces, it faces a serious situation. How can its economy prosper?” “Graduated VED is very worrying. It will put the clock back” “It would be wise of the Government to realise it is facing a tremendous public backlash to its next revenue raising attack on cars and road use. The outlook is alarming”


Strange how seemingly educated people cannot see the wood for the trees.
It seems obvious, from perusing legislation over the past 10 years, that the government is only too aware of the public backlash. Hence the various new criminal law acts, the RIP act, anmd various other laws that seem to have little reason unless you consider that the government (the ones not elected by anyone) has decided to remove the freedom to travel where and when you want. Not by direct legislation but by invoking taxation and climate change as routes to that end.
Or maybe I'm too paranoid ?

On an unrelated note, very short thread titles are surprisingly difficult to click on!