Angry Motorists want Road Charging. (Or Not!)
January 24, 2024
By Paul Homewood
If anybody has not watched Geoff Buys Cars, I can thoroughly recommend him.
Here he demolishes a rather ludicrous article in the Express:
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An excellent YouTube channel. A nice mix of cars, politics and plain, good sense. Well worth a look – generally, IMHO
Seconded!
Geoff, Paul Homewood and John Palmer are right about this in spades!
A long listen – but well worth it. Would that it could better coverage in the press.
It will be 650 members of the population who inflict pay per mile charging. Or perhaps just a declaration from the Transport Minister, like Gove cancelling ICE cars without so much as a statement in Parliament.
Geoff is wrong to major on the sample size as a line of attack. Perhaps he could provide evidence that the sample is biassed. A sample consisting of everyone who voted Green would be much larger, but obviously biassed. He is correct to attack the leading questions, as Sir Humphrey explained to Bernard.
But, whatever the failings, Geoff has over 100k YouTube followers. I’ll bet that many of them are only now being alerted to the truth of the upcoming situation – if we don’t all get off our collective a***s and say no.
More power to his – and others on YouTube who are exposing this on a regular basis. (Not unlike that fellow Homewood….)
That’s followers only, how many viewers who aren’t followers are there?
I also noted Geoff’s apparent lack of understanding of statistics and polling. But I forgave it, as he indicated questions were set up to give the desired responses*, which I believe because I expect it.
*”the questions were extremely loaded, anyway”
”Pay Per Mile”, isn’t a toll road, its logging everywhere you drive by fitted gps, mandatory on every vehcile ….big big big brother
Having literally just stopped reading 1984 we will all come to love Big Brother so there is no problem.
happy days
Keep it going Geoff
Sounds like a seeding operation by government.
Minister: “We need to spy on automobile drivers.”
Assistant: “They’ll never allow it.”
Minister: “We’ll tell them it’s for taxing people who haven’t been been paying taxes.”
Assistant: “Yeah, that will probably work.”
I come to make this comment late in the day in the hope that others will have made the point soon after the article was circulated by Paul .
We already pay per mile . It is called fuel consumption.
No need to set up more electronics. If road use is to be further discouraged then increase fuel duty.
Our experience with govt introduced computer based recording systems has not been a happy one. NB Sub-postmasters.
It sounds to me like a journalist is just regurgitating press releases from green organisations, but he’s sent the links to Geoff that we’re attached to the press releases. As for the survey samples, that just reminds me of the Climate Assembly scam, led by biased so-called experts feeding one-sided information and asking leading questions afterwards with no options for dissent.