On the Prime Minister's shitlist.
Feb. 21st, 2007 04:03 pmTalking to my mother last night, I mentioned I was one of the 1.8 million people who signed the roadtax petition (Top Gear told me to do it. And yes, if they told me to jump off a cliff I might consider that too. It's *Top Gear*).
Mother: You'll be getting nasty emails from Tony Blair tomorrow then.
Me: *doesn't watch the news* Yeah right. I'm sure invading countries is more important than emailing protesting students.
Mother: No, really. He's emailing everyone who signed.
Me: ... Really?
Mother: Check your email tomorrow.
And, sure enough, I have an email from '10 Downing Street'. HOW COOL IS THAT?
Unfortunately, I can't be bothered reading the email itself because it's about ten pages long and the only word I can pick out on a quick skim is "congestion" repeated over and over again. So I'm assuming that's their excuse and it's a bullshit one when rail ticket prices just went up a month or so ago. And the cost of our buses goes up by around 15-20p per year (it's getting to stupid levels now.) And yes, I did read the part of the email where he says 'improving public transport won't help'. Um. How do they work that one out? I'd sure as hell prefer to pay cheap rail prices as opposed to paying insurance, tax, the *cost* of getting a car at all... You want people to stop driving, stop raising the cost of public transport, f**kwits. And having zero transport on Sundays is a pretty dumb idea too, by the way.
BUT. If you have more stamina than me -- and want to check for any hidden assasination threats for me -- ( here's the email )
A related -- and hilarious -- fact from an MSN article: "By the time the petition closed at midnight yesterday it had attracted a staggering 1,791,942 signatures. The most popular poll in support of road-pricing has just over 3,000 supporters to date. In fact, more people have signed a petition calling on Tony Blair to, “stand on his head and juggle ice-cream."
Now I have to go and sign that petition.
Mother: You'll be getting nasty emails from Tony Blair tomorrow then.
Me: *doesn't watch the news* Yeah right. I'm sure invading countries is more important than emailing protesting students.
Mother: No, really. He's emailing everyone who signed.
Me: ... Really?
Mother: Check your email tomorrow.
And, sure enough, I have an email from '10 Downing Street'. HOW COOL IS THAT?
Unfortunately, I can't be bothered reading the email itself because it's about ten pages long and the only word I can pick out on a quick skim is "congestion" repeated over and over again. So I'm assuming that's their excuse and it's a bullshit one when rail ticket prices just went up a month or so ago. And the cost of our buses goes up by around 15-20p per year (it's getting to stupid levels now.) And yes, I did read the part of the email where he says 'improving public transport won't help'. Um. How do they work that one out? I'd sure as hell prefer to pay cheap rail prices as opposed to paying insurance, tax, the *cost* of getting a car at all... You want people to stop driving, stop raising the cost of public transport, f**kwits. And having zero transport on Sundays is a pretty dumb idea too, by the way.
BUT. If you have more stamina than me -- and want to check for any hidden assasination threats for me -- ( here's the email )
A related -- and hilarious -- fact from an MSN article: "By the time the petition closed at midnight yesterday it had attracted a staggering 1,791,942 signatures. The most popular poll in support of road-pricing has just over 3,000 supporters to date. In fact, more people have signed a petition calling on Tony Blair to, “stand on his head and juggle ice-cream."
Now I have to go and sign that petition.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}