Mayor Ken Livingstone Vs Porsche

[terrybullwon]

Why do we have so little back bone sometimes

Porsche has written to the Mayor requesting that he review his plans to increase the congestion charge to ?25.00 for some vehicles. If he refuses to think more about the plans, Porsche will formally apply to the High Court for a Judicial Review. Porsche is not prepared to sit by and watch a world class city indiscriminately damaged.

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[Acidburn]

Why do we have so little back bone sometimes

Because of the way the country has gone in recent years.

[terrybullwon]

Because of the way the country has gone in recent years.

You mean **** up dont you

[Acidburn]

You mean **** up dont you

I mean when a old granny goes out for her weekly bingo and gets mugged and the person actually caught by a policemen (on his way to a speed camera site i might add) and the mugger gets off with community service etc it takes the piss.

Then you either only have to read the papers or watch the news. Count how many good stories there are too bad and you will be surprised.

Bring back the death sentence was in the sun today (in the shop i didn' buy it )

I for one will go for that

[bertman]

The old saying,"No news is good news" is certainly true of today.The media has us hooked on listening to bad news only,I am sure there are plenty of stories about something good,but it doesn't bring in the viewers

[Acidburn]

True, media does rule at the end of the day.

Its just a pity that they did not focus on something good each day rather than all the bad stuff.

When the youf of today (aka james above and callam3n ) read that for mugging old ladies he's gonna get off scot free they ain't going to worry. (how do you think they're paying for there cars, pity callam3n ain't good at it)

[bertman]

There must be only a limited number of old grannies on the isle of wight

[Acidburn]

There must be only a limited number of old grannies on the isle of wight

Which is why he works in a restaurant and is able to get them when they come off the boat over

Always thinking, always thinking

[Cullam3n]

i don't know who callam3n guy is, sounds like a mean bloke :mischeif:

[Acidburn]

i don't know who callam3n guy is, sounds like a mean bloke :mischeif:

I thought he was a relation of yours?

[Graham]

Its a fact if you mug someone, beat them up, put them in a coma the consequences are an awfull lot less than someone who robs a cash machine--an inanimate object. Kill a person in a car get 5 years, rob a bank get 20. I support porsche though, i could never afford to venture into London on a day to day basis, never mind live there. Plus they would have to squeeze the money from my dead clenched hands if they charged me this much.

[Error404]

The reason Commie Ken is doing it is to increse the revenue because the congestion charge system is so inefficient in design and operation that 60% of its revenue is spent paying for and maintaining the infrastructure itself

Last year motorists handed over £250m in congestion charges, the system itsefl ate £130m in running costs.

The reason its so crap is that they rushed it in to fulfill a policatical agenda rather than actually giving a crap about congestion as they say. It is badly designed and using inferior technology and labour intensive payment management.

independant figures put congestion reilef at just over 10% - not the 30% that Ken and his Marxist buddies at the TFL claim.

thsi kind of Bull**it as is expected in this country these days. We'll see how Ken likes it when 25% of buinesses in London move outside the zone. Who votesfor this prink?

[dan_b]

But the thing is putting a different charge on a Band G car to any other is nothing to do with congestion at all - a Citroen C2 has just as much potential to Congest as my Audi A4 - but the C2 gets in for £8 and I get stung for £25. It's complete tosh and is purely the politics of envy.

The system is conceptually flawed in the first place. Think about it - a daily charge to prevent people driving into an area. If it were 100% effective, no one would drive in at all and no one would pay the charge, so therefore no revenue would be generated. I seem to recall that in order for the C-Charge to actually make a profit, it has to rely on reducing traffic levels by less than 10% - ie it's designed to be useless.

I back Porsche on this, and I back Boris on this too! At least there's a Mayoral election netween now and October and a chance to turn it over.

[Error404]

precicely - and as the Porsche case states, the reduced co2 is nothing compared the increases that will be seen when T5 opens, but noone is seeing 312% increase in tax on that.

Its just Ken and his communist friends exploiting those they percieve to have more to give

[S2central.net]

If I lived in London, I'd vote for Boris...

Simple reason being he's the only politician whose name I can remember other than Gordon useless Brown - the rest are such a bunch of dull, forgettable, empty suits.

That whole congestion charging thing is just a license for Red Ken to fill the coffers. I'm sure I saw a recent documentary about him - he has a small team of 'expert assistants' (bessy mates and yesmen of old) working for him, and their salary bill alone amounted to something like a million quid a year. Thats maybe not an exact number, its all public info - but its shocking that London runs the way it does.