lord summit,

i think 67% is way over the mark. the fact is that motorists are a minority out of those who are eligable to pay tax. they get ****ed 6 ways from sunday what with car tax, petrol tax, insurance tax, tax on parts vat on labour for repairs, etc. etc. almost ad infinitum. if this load was shared between everyone not just those with a car (except for a reasonable fuel tax to pay for road maintainence, environmental issues etc.) then i for one would feel better about paying it.

to be honest though government spending is completely uncontrolled. from burrough council members who get more money if they hold their meetings in another town, get travel and food expenses and then cut services and increase council taxes because they 'don't have enough money' to the parlimentary ministers who paper their offices with 60,000 ukp a sq meter wallpaper (it's be cheaper to use 20 pound notes i reckon) and buy antique desks with public funds.

to be honest there's not much you can do about it as referendums are a joke. just take it like a man and occasionally cheat the tax man where you can by way of some vaseline.

depressingly it's the way the world works.

oh yes. the last time the truckers tried to do something they got **** all support from the public after a couple of days and things became inconvienient. this is what those gits in parliament rely on and it works every time.

cheers

julian