The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

9 responses to “Kill me. Just kill me now.”

1. 

   Diogenes

   August 8, 2013

   The perennial threats of road pricing and tracking devices seem to have been put on the back burner for the time being.
   As for banning private cars… that would be genuine electoral suicide, let’s hope the left grasps it with both hands.

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   corncrake

   August 8, 2013

   The unfortunate thing is that whilst the Lib/Dems might be proposing this in public the remainder of our political elites are seeking to do this by stealth.

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   Jackart

   August 8, 2013

   “We love our cars”. Actually most of us detest driving. It’s a boring, stressful chore and by far the most dangerous thing we do every day. Most people don’t drive a Maserati, but a £5-10k runabout.
   Anyway. They aren’t really planning to ban cars at all. My take on this story’s <ahref=”http://brackenworld.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/so-liberal-democrats-want-to-ban-cars.html”>here.

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   Jackart

   August 8, 2013

   here http://brackenworld.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/so-liberal-democrats-want-to-ban-cars.html

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5. 

   Tom

   August 8, 2013

   I suggest you come with me to the Goodwood Festival of Speed next year. Thousands of happy, normal, decent people in love with the internal combustion engine having a great time. As for the envious sneering, my first car cost £80 and I loved her as much as my Ferrari. In fact I have plans to buy her back if I can acquire a garage near my home to keep her in. Attitudes to cars are a good litmus test for joy in life. I have rarely met an A-B merchant who was any fun to be with.

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6. 

   Moggsy

   August 8, 2013

   I voted, but it didn’t make any difference.. Isn’t that a story for our times ^^
   How would you drive to, say Devon from London, with an electric car? It wouldn’t make it on one charge. would you string up wires over the road like dodge-em cars?
   Why low energy vehicles, what is wrong with using hydrogen?
   What about veteran cars?
   Do they want to force peole to use trains? what’s the term? “Swivel eyed (towney) loons”?
   Tho personally I wouldn’t mind one of those cars that drives themselves, an electronic chauffeur and I could read a book or chat on the phone while stuck in traffic ^^ no I do’t do that already.

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7. 

   Cascadian

   August 8, 2013

   The limpdems are welcome to their showboating. By next spring when the full affects of Britain’s disastrous energy policies are evident to all bill-payers and another few hundred pensioners have died from lack of heat the backlash will get going.
   There is absolutely no point arguing these points logically or scientifically, the public is not interested, it only becomes interested when their pockets are visibly being picked by evil rent-seeking “corporations” carrying out the governments disastrous policies. So a full winter of costly diesel generator backup infeeds to the grid should do it.
   As for banning petroleum driven cars that is just another of th watermelon’s dreams, and will be just as disruptive as bike lanes, windmills and ten different kinds of garbage cans. So I predict the limpdems will stick with the policy in the hope of attracting support from green voters, they are that desperate.
   Not unrelated, and good for a chuckle google Hydrogen highway, a costly nonsense we tried in BC during the Olympics. Its the kind of wasteful nonsense Clegg would have you believe is the future of driving.

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8. 

   prog

   August 11, 2013

   As if the Lib Dems would ever find themselves in a majority. They’ve peaked and it’ll be downhill from now on. Same goes for the Guardian.

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9. 

   james higham

   August 12, 2013

   Should the country be banned while we’re at it?

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