Cable Forum - View Single Post - Congestion Charge

BBKing · 18-10-2005, 13:11

It's not a bloody tax, it's a toll. You want to drive on a particular road, you pay up. Do they pay to go over the QE2 bridge or through the Dartford Tunnel or on the M6 Toll or on Autoroutes or Autostrade in France and Italy? If not, they shouldn't have to pay the CC, otherwise to be consistent they need to start annoying the toll collectors in those areas. Prats. This isn't the Boston Tea Party. Two fingers up from me, and doubtless two fingers up from Ken, too*.

If they don't want to pay it, move the US Embassy to Menwith Hill and we can remove a large terrorist target from the centre of London, free lots of armed police and the concrete blocks that stop ME from driving round parts of my own capital city in order to provide security for a foreign power. Might prove harder to give Blair his orders from there though. Hrrmph.

*"All staff at the American embassy should pay the congestion charge, in the same way as British officials pay road tolls in the United States." So should we stop paying our tolls on their roads?

18-10-2005, 13:11	#5
BBKing R.I.P. Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Services: 20Mb VM CM, Virgin TV Posts: 5,983	Re: Congestion Charge - Tax or Service? It's not a bloody tax, it's a toll. You want to drive on a particular road, you pay up. Do they pay to go over the QE2 bridge or through the Dartford Tunnel or on the M6 Toll or on Autoroutes or Autostrade in France and Italy? If not, they shouldn't have to pay the CC, otherwise to be consistent they need to start annoying the toll collectors in those areas. Prats. This isn't the Boston Tea Party. Two fingers up from me, and doubtless two fingers up from Ken, too. If they don't want to pay it, move the US Embassy to Menwith Hill and we can remove a large terrorist target from the centre of London, free lots of armed police and the concrete blocks that stop ME from driving round parts of my own capital city in order to provide security for a foreign power. Might prove harder to give Blair his orders from there though. Hrrmph. "All staff at the American embassy should pay the congestion charge, in the same way as British officials pay road tolls in the United States." So should we stop paying our tolls on their roads?