I'm looking forward to the next election

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I\'m looking forward to the next election

Wonderfully silly day for news:

SUV parking fees hiked up while environmentally friendly cars go free.
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Scotland to send all its nuclear waste to England (Our elections are in May)

Now's the time to lobby MPs for all your sailing wants, while they actually need us .
 
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Just to make it clearer. The plan is to increase the cost of parking gas-guzzling SUVs outside your home. This will encourage you to leave it there, thus ensuring maximum hours parking per £ spent, and take public transport to work. What's wrong with that?

As for the nuclear waste? Wait and see the incentives HMG hold out to local authorities. It'll come down to a simple choice: a £1,000+ pa hike in council tax, or a nuclear waste repository at the bottom of your garden.
 
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Just to make it clearer. The plan is to increase the cost of parking gas-guzzling SUVs outside your home. This will encourage you to leave it there, thus ensuring maximum hours parking per £ spent, and take public transport to work. What's wrong with that?

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Its social engineering but it might be acceptable if they also levied charges on the lentils that all these vegetarian leftie councillors eat - they must be responsible for at least as big a hole in the ozone layer! And will they levy the same charge on the council employees car park? Will they h*ll as like.

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As for the nuclear waste? Wait and see the incentives HMG hold out to local authorities. It'll come down to a simple choice: a £1,000+ pa hike in council tax, or a nuclear waste repository at the bottom of your garden.

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Nonsense. They will all be sited in the leafy conservative voting suburbs. And with a government of Scots, do you really thionk any will be north of the border? Depite it being largely empty up there?
 
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[quoteNonsense. They will all be sited in the leafy conservative voting suburbs. And with a government of Scots, do you really thionk any will be north of the border? Depite it being largely empty up there?

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1) There are no leafy conservative suburbs up here as far as I know.

2) We've already got most of the UK's nukes up here in the "largely empty" spaces.

Seems to me that all the nimbys would rather we store this radioactive crap in inadequate, insecure, corroding facilities rather than bury it safely.
 
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I'm not convinced it is to encourage longer parking. More likely something to do with the incongruity of 4wd SUVs in a wholly urban environment.
Perhaps Birdseye should start campaigning for wee Alex's Scots Nats - they want to keep Scottish waste Scottish.

But on the boaty front - red diesel tax derogation, subsidised berthing fees for low emission vessels (i.e. rowing and sailing boats), etc. could be vote catchers.
 
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From the Evening Standard,march 2005 relating to the tax year 2005/6

'' In Richmond 2,690 householders who live in the most expensive band- H properties will pay Pounds 2,775 a year - London's highest council tax.''
Its never enough is it? If I had an expensive car that cost just a lot to sit outside,well it would make sense to use it more,no?
 
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What's this rubbish about electric cars getting free parking. And a waiver on the congestion charge in London. Obviously that makes sense, because they don't take up any space, and they're so fast as to not contribute to the congestion...

Does this mean sail boats will get free marinas?
 
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