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GOVERNMENT PROMISE TO DEBATE ROAD PRICING "A SHAM"
The promises by Ministers to listen to the 2 million signatories of the anti road pricing petition and debate the issue sensibly have been exposed as a total sham.
Infrastructure and legislation are already being put into place - the wheels are already turning.
Protestations that nothing has been decided and accusations that the public have been duped into signing the petition by false information are spin doctoring of the worst kind.
Already, Stephen Ladyman has contradicted Douglas Alexander by saying that road pricing is 'inevitable'.
Embarrassing revelations occur on a daily basis: A minister has called the person who thought up the idea of e-petitions a 'prat', and a German GPS Systems Company, has, according to the London Evening Standard and a number of national papers, allegedly contributed a substantial sum to The Institute of Public Policy Research, an organisation known to favour 'selling' road pricing to the public. (See links below)
Overwhelming public opposition to being tracked and charged on the UK's woefully inadequate road system has manifested itself in the prime minister's e-petition.
There is no debate.
On one hand, there is massive public opposition to road pricing, on the other, the Government regards Road Pricing as a 'fait accompli'.
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