Ministry for Retro-futurism
Futuristic car plans unveiled...
The future is all we've really got if you think about it. Which is why it's more than a little daunting that we should entrust it to a man like Gordon Brown who seems to think that 'good' means 'fines' and that 'better' means 'more'. It's really quite confusing.
In his latest attempts to wow the nation with his stunning intellect and compassion for the people, everybody's favourite fake Prime Minister has unveiled plans for the future of his 'eco-towns'. These plans are so mesmerising and enormous in scope that it won't be until the future has actually been and gone that people will find themselves able to figure out what he was actually talking about.
If you thought that Labour's circumscribing of freedoms was intrusive these days, it seems that, in Brown's proposed utopias, the only thing that's going to be free is the air. Taking a particularly high place on his agenda is a punitive system of fines for car owners, especially for those who wish to take their vehicle outside the boundaries of their villages, go on more than a predetermined number of journeys in one year, or drive at peak congestion times.
The plans, which sound a bit like like Ken Livingstone's recurring dream in which he's the ruler of EVERYTHING, are part of the Government's attempt to cut carbon emissions within ten eco-towns by 2013.
When taken as a chaser to the announcements made last week that Brown is considering higher levels of car tax for UK citizens, it seems that the new enemy of the people - besides terrorism, knifes, cigarettes, and alcohol - is the motor car. Unfortunately for drivers, though, it seems that the only way that Labour can think of dealing with things these days is to fine people.
Admittedly, the UK does seem to be have a few too many cars out and about there on its roads, but preventing people from using them to actually go places seems against the point of owning one completely...
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Should not all the people of this septic isle be fined punitively for allowing a situation to develop where this cyclopic imbecile is still at large. Surely the day is well past when he should have been sectioned under the mental health act. Not only him but at least 600 of his current "colleagues" in the Asylum of Westminster.