Road Privatisation

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fatboy · #1 Post by **fatboy** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:50 pm

Upper Class Tory Twit Cameron will today announce plans to place 3% of the countries busiest roads into prvate hands.Investors are to bid for longterm leases.
The investors will be responsible for maintenance and traffic management and recieve an annual maintenance budget
Tolls will not be levied on existing roads but it is not yet clear if this will apply to roads that have had major impovements/widening
At present the Highways Agy. has a repair budget of £3bn,half of what is raised in road tax
THIEVING BASTARD

Willopotomas · #2 Post by **Willopotomas** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:07 pm

Got to pay for the previous administrations spending spree somehow. No, not a good idea in the slightest!

fatboy · #3 Post by **fatboy** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:39 pm

Will, thats true but hitting the road user yet again is about as moral as a sniper in a tree firing into an enclosed play ground
guaranteed hit

Willopotomas · #4 Post by **Willopotomas** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:46 pm

Which is why they do it. Easy. We haven't got a collective 'union' to fight some bullshit corner for us. Instead we have to grin and bear it because the public sector will start striking.. And we don't want that do we?? Because it's not like we've got mass unemployment to fill their spaces at all is it? Place is a joke, and has been for many years. Come back Maggie, all is forgiven!

D-Rider · #5 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:59 pm

Willopotomas wrote: Come back Maggie, all is forgiven!

I think her legacy is alive and kicking and this privatisation by the back door is a fine example .... along with proposals to cut the tax of those on unbelievably high salaries .......

fatboy · #6 Post by **fatboy** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:24 pm

With you on that DR
Im guessing that you also pay 24% more income tax than Barclays bank ???
So do I on my astounding £14k income
A return to Maggies values.... sell the un waged to China, the low income to India and give the un abled to Guantanamo Bay
As for Union Membership

Sorry if that offends but this once great isle seems to have lost its understanding of morality and balance, working hard and paying your dues is no longer enough,we must also support corrupt multi national companies and pay the taxes they dont

#7 Post by **Kwackerz** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:46 pm

If they privatise certain roads they should be able to privatise the speed limits on said roads too.

i'd happily pay a premium to hit legal ton and a half down a privatised motorway owned..well..maintained..by a german company...

Willopotomas · #8 Post by **Willopotomas** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:46 pm

The nation needs a kick up the arse. The softly softly approach doesn't work. I think last years riots proves that.

D-Rider · #9 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:57 pm

Kwackerz wrote:If they privatise certain roads they should be able to privatise the speed limits on said roads too.

i'd happily pay a premium to hit legal ton and a half down a privatised motorway owned..well..maintained..by a german company...

Not a fan of motorways .... other than as a device to keep lorries and slowcoaches out of the way on A and B roads.
I might be willing to pay an annual season ticket to do a permitted ton on A and B roads where the blanket 50 and 60 limits are just a joke.

HisNibbs · #10 Post by **HisNibbs** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:58 pm

Willopotomas wrote:Which is why they do it. Easy. We haven't got a collective 'union' to fight some bullshit corner for us. Instead we have to grin and bear it because the public sector will start striking.. And we don't want that do we?? Because it's not like we've got mass unemployment to fill their spaces at all is it? Place is a joke, and has been for many years. Come back Maggie, all is forgiven!

No it isn't.

D-Rider · #11 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:07 am

HisNibbs wrote:
Willopotomas wrote:Which is why they do it. Easy. We haven't got a collective 'union' to fight some bullshit corner for us. Instead we have to grin and bear it because the public sector will start striking.. And we don't want that do we?? Because it's not like we've got mass unemployment to fill their spaces at all is it? Place is a joke, and has been for many years. Come back Maggie, all is forgiven!
No it isn't.

..... and it never will be

#12 Post by **Kwackerz** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:06 am

Willopotomas wrote:Which is why they do it. Easy. We haven't got a collective 'union' to fight some bullshit corner for us. Instead we have to grin and bear it because the public sector will start striking.. And we don't want that do we?? Because it's not like we've got mass unemployment to fill their spaces at all is it? Place is a joke, and has been for many years. Come back Maggie, all is forgiven!

Wait til the Armed Forces' new pensions are properly announced. National service will be brought back in... cos no fecker will want to join up if theyve got any sense..

MartDude · #13 Post by **MartDude** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 3:03 pm

D-Rider wrote:
HisNibbs wrote:
Willopotomas wrote:Which is why they do it. Easy. We haven't got a collective 'union' to fight some bullshit corner for us. Instead we have to grin and bear it because the public sector will start striking.. And we don't want that do we?? Because it's not like we've got mass unemployment to fill their spaces at all is it? Place is a joke, and has been for many years. Come back Maggie, all is forgiven!
No it isn't.
..... and it never will be

I've a feeling that many of those with a rosy-tinted retrospective view are too young to have lived through the immediate effects of Thatcher's policies, and have opinions influenced by the largely right-wing, Little-Englander-owned press.

She destroyed the economic foundations of entire communities - I'd just moved to the Black Country when her policies began to ravage the region. Towns like Wednesbury, Bilston and Brierley Hill became almost ghost towns, with tumbleweed blowing through. She took away the livelihoods and futures of tens of thousands of families, and put nothing in their place, except despair and destitution, in her relentless, obsessive idolatry of the free market, with the disciples of Milton Friedman as her high priests.

She was a failure. One of the prime duties of a government is to look after its citizens; that, in part, is why we pay taxes - it's a deal that's been in place, in various guises, since feudal times. In this respect, she failed miserably; 'trickle-down' didn't work, still doesn't work and never will - only those at the apex of a pyramid with an ever-widening base benefit.

OK, relax, I've put the soap-box away now.

Willopotomas · #14 Post by **Willopotomas** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:24 pm

Socialism is fine and dandy until they run out of other peoples money to spend.

I'm not going to be dragged in to the 'Maggie' argument. I've listened to both sides of the argument and am big enough and ugly enough to make my own mind up. Some of my views may be right-wing and "little Englander" but so be it if that's what people class it as. I prefer to call it a common sense approach meself. There're many reasons why I have the views I have, and it's not down to reading the wrong sort of newspaper as I read those from all sides.

Willopotomas · #15 Post by **Willopotomas** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:08 pm

Besides, there's no such thing as 'road tax' and hasn't been since the late 30's. It was replaced with VED (Vehicle Excise Duty) so therefore it's the vehicle that's taxed, not road use. These days it's based on emissions which is another way to extort money from us. Only cyclists, disabled drivers, police, royal family, those in band 'A' and drivers of historic vehcles (like me

) do not pay VED.

Pretty much means they have no obligation to spend VED on the roads and infrastructure.