Ok, time for a rant. Recently there’s been a few things in the news that have been bothering me. All of them related to the damn assed morons that run this place, the government. The first is the new Road Pricing policy they are talking about. The idea is that duty on petrol will be reduced, tax discs will be abolished and we will be charged tax on a per mile basis.
The reason they’ve come up with this idea is partly to reduce congestion and partly to help the environment. I’m all for reducing congestion, but the environmentals just need a good kicking. It’s march and we’re scrapping frost off our cars so this global warming thing can’t be that bad. If you want to reduce carbon in the atmosphere why not plant more trees in city areas? Enough about this anyway, it just pisses me off.
Congestion. The thing the morons government don’t seem to realise is that the reason we’re all on the road at the same time is because we’re going to work, not just driving around to annoy people. This won’t ever change and trying to price us off the road won’t help. It might be time for a different idea pillocks.
And before you start, saying we should all use public transport is not the solution in it’s current form. I used to get the bus to work and a fifeteen mile journey through the country and then straight through the city center takes thirty minutes by car. By bus this takes an hour and a half each way and costs £8. As much as I love working fourteen hour days to spend half my wages on a big, slow box that stinks of piss, I think I’ll stick with the car thanks.
Anyway, enough on the roads. The other thing that’s been bothering me is taxes. Beer and fags have just gone up again, inflation has gone up 2.5% but prices tend to go up by a lot more and we have to pay £120 a month to have our bins emptied (except the council won’t let me have a bin outside my flat…. good one) and what have we got for all this extra cash we’re dishing over? Well… they probably used some of it to fuck up the NHS… oh, and I think there’s a big ferris wheel in London. Great.
I hate this country and as soon as the Isle of Man let me in, I’m off!
Just a few things before you leave a comment:
- I don’t give a shit about the environment, so don’t bother.
- Don’t say “You don’t know what you’re on about…”. I know. But I don’t think I’m capable of running the country.
Right, back to work!
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