{"id":1237,"date":"2005-06-01T13:52:54","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T12:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2011-09-15T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:20:25","slug":"road-pricing-big-brother-says-christian-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/road-pricing-big-brother-says-christian-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Pricing ‘Big Brother’ says Christian Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government proposals to replace the road fund license and fuel duty by road pricing dependent on satellite tracking have been described as “like Orwell’s Big Brother”\u00a0 by Christian Voice,\u00a0 the group behind the Jerry Springer the Opera protests, which also monitors assaults on civil liberties.<\/p>\n

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice,\u00a0said today:<\/p>\n

“Motorists are already taxed on how much they use the roads, by fuel duty.\u00a0 Fuel duty also reflects the environmental impact of vehicles, highly-polluting vehicles paying more.<\/p>\n

“The radical solution is to ring-fence transport income and expenditure in the Department of Transport, and plough all the money raised from motoring into road improvements, and more importantly, public transport.\u00a0 It should be possible at least to halve fares on trains and buses and reach an equilibrium where fuel duty is subsidising an envirogated public transport system, based on a re-nationalised rail network.\u00a0 Christian Voice have already proposed such an idea, in our alternative Queen’s Speech.<\/p>\n

“We have\u00a0a profound civil liberties issue with the Government’s proposals.\u00a0 The satellite technology they depend on will track every vehicle.\u00a0fitted with the spy-in-the-car black box.\u00a0 Motorists will be paying for the transmitter and for the miles they drive, but the spin-off is that the Government will know where every car is at every moment.\u00a0 Many of us don’t see why the Government should know where we are, and we see a similar control-freak mind-set in the pages of Orwell’s “1984”.\u00a0 The Government will have data on the whereabouts of every vehicle, and we shall be financing their intrusion into our privacy.<\/p>\n

“We must fight this proposal, and push for an alternative which will subsidise public transport and help the environment.\u00a0 Our counter-proposal does exactly that.”<\/p>\n

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Government proposals to replace the road fund license and fuel duty by road pricing dependent on satellite tracking have been described as “like Orwell’s Big Brother”\u00a0 by Christian Voice,\u00a0 the group behind the Jerry Springer the Opera protests, which also monitors assaults on civil liberties. Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice,\u00a0said today: “Motorists are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,82],"tags":[43,97],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalism-depopulation-id","category-politics","tag-stephen-green","tag-totalitarianism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t