road safety in general

[The People's Hero]

I'm not actually sure I couldn't run the car on Barbars. It's a thought.

But yes, I agree racism/sexism is bad. In fact I think it is shocking that anyone should lose a job simply because they are white rather than black or female.

You didn't sound too pleased yourelf the other week judging by your comment on Harriet Harman but you've soon reverted back to kind. Safety in numbers I guess.

Harriett Harman and positive discrimination are a joke. I agree with that.

I don't agree with your views that all dark skinned people are like apes. Believe it or not, that's still a very racist thing to see, even if you do think that these dark skinned people are 'magnificent creatures'.

You're a bigot and you won't change anyone's view on here of that.

[stez]

i found a book in my parents loft today which might be of use to people who don't drive to the conditions;

well it says 60 so i'll drive 60, that'll learn the 'authorities'

anyway here:

published in 1965, so might be hard to come by, but it is full of hints an tips for the drivers of yester year, today and tomorrow.

[Tommy G]

We already pay higher taxes in real terms than ever before.

Gordon Brown has to reduce that tax on moral grounds for a start because it is so unfair.

For a Labour prime minister to impose a tax that penalises the people whose hourly work drives this country leaves me disgusted.

Well if he doesn't reduce the tax he'll not be Prime Minister for long and I doubt that any independent biographer would say that he served our country in that role.

If he steps back from imposing his intended 2p increase in fuel tax he'll simply be acknowledging his guilty conscience and

prove my point that he has to go in a different direction.

And that direction should be to get electric cars on the road even earlier than the 2020 projection. It is the route we should have gone years ago,

Then, instead of patronising calls to eat rather than waste our food - something anyone with a proper conscience would do - he should make some harsh choices, stop wasting money, and give us the transport system which will enable this nation to remain fully mobile and to set about earning the revenue which will take it forward.

A transport system which would allow the millions of potential tourists to come here from the thriving economies of Russia, China and India to marvel at one of the entertainment, historical and innovation centres of the world, if only we'd set about building it.

We need to make ourselves as near to self sufficient as possible again. We need to harvest the wind and the waves.

Not by pinching the workforce's money and destroying their incentives, but by using an acceptable share of their earnings properly and conscienciously, which surely doesn't include waging expensive wars in places we don't belong.

Brown needs to heed his own words about waste and act on them.

Not just over food but on warfare and so many other less dramatic areas of unnecessary and unproductive spending.

You seem to have the view that running a country successfully is a piece of cake, you are very very wrong!

It's easy to sit there type away with criticism about our current government and how they have got all their taxation policies incorrect But to come up with alternatives and implement them yourself would be an impossible task. Clearly you dislike Gordon Brown for reasons mentioned in your post, but you have to respect the mans intelligence.

The government has to raise a certain amount of revenue from tax each year to provide services for the UK. In simple terms, if he didn't stick tax on fuel then it would have to be raised another way. I'm sure people would kick up a fuss if VAT wen't up to 25% instead?

The government is clever, because fuel is price inelastic then small changes in price is unlikely to affect it's demand as it's such a necessity. It is unfair but unfortunately it's life, people seem to forget that global fuel price fluctuations reflect the price at our pump - so it's not all Mr Brown's fault.

You could write pages and pages on the current economic problems facing this country, but it's unlikely that we were ever going to keep growing at a steady rate. I think the UK has enjoyed favourable economic growth for something like 30 concecutuve quarters, mostly under Labour Government. Anything that happens in America will affect the UK aswell, it's bound to.

I can't be arsed to write anymore, but I certainly would prefere to to have the tax system in place in this country than perhaps lower taxation such as the USA but having to pay for you're own Healthcare etc.

[Hullfox]

It's easy to sit there type away with criticism about our current government and how they have got all their taxation policies incorrect But to come up with alternatives and implement them yourself would be an impossible task.

Let's not bother with elections then as if the present way is the only way why bother? I'm sure that Messrs Cameron and Clegg would argue with you there.

You could write pages and pages on the current economic problems facing this country, but it's unlikely that we were ever going to keep growing at a steady rate. I think the UK has enjoyed favourable economic growth for something like 30 concecutuve quarters, mostly under Labour Government. Anything that happens in America will affect the UK aswell, it's bound to.

30 quarters = 7.5 years

Labour elected in 1997 = at least 44 quarters

Therefore all 30 must have been under a labour administration. - Maybe not the ideal mathematical knowledge to base an argument around economics on.

[Daggers]

...published in 1965, so might be hard to come by, but it is full of hints an tips for the drivers of yester year, today and tomorrow.

Anything about dealing with traffic wardens, the lack of available free parking outside the shop of your choice and reasons why drink-driving is acceptable?

[The People's Hero]

Anything about dealing with traffic wardens, the lack of available free parking outside the shop of your choice and reasons why drink-driving is acceptable?

As if he needs a book on any of those things!

[Guest]

I'm sure people would kick up a fuss if VAT wen't up to 25% instead?

Of course they would, but only when they went to fill up their cars...