On 13 Jul 2006 08:11:15 -0700, "
wrote:

Although I do not normally subscribe to class-warfare type causes [...]
I do agree that Chelsea tractors ought to pay more for the
following reasons:

1. Their drivers are so often appallingly bad at driving, which results
in
(a) road-hogging
and (b) poor parking, both causing much inconvenience for others;
2. Their journey (e.g. 200 yards to take Annabelle to prep school) is
so often totally unnecessary
3. They do use more fuel and cause more pollution

You'll know when they intend to tax such beasties when the tax
specifies so high and so wide. It just aien't so: the proposed hate
tax is based on the g/km figure. As poster Adrian correctly said,
plenty CTs come below the 225g/km while enough smaller vehicles exceed
it. Issue here is that one target of hate (CT) is being used to slip
in tax rises. Issue 2 is how the media don't bother/are too dim to
explain this. Issue 3 is incitement: I'm no fan of CTs but the bile
being spewed against them is not nice to see. First they came for the
Tractors, then they came for the cyclists, ... This is not intelligent
politics but barrow boy stuff.

I've sent another missive, this time to politics.guardian.co.uk on
this. My previous to the BBC web site elicited a zero response.

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