LOOKING FOR THE ROAD OUT OF EUROPE

A quiet road that could soon be jamed thanks to the EU.

One of the reasons there was no blogging on this site over the weekend was due to this blogger having to pound the roads from Walsall to the home of my mother in North Wales, which is a regular occurrence. This weekend the journey was added to by trying to avoid the V Fest traffic heading to Weston Park, which meant a detour on the way there on Friday evening and a trip along the North Wales coast then down the M6 on the way home yesterday rather than using my normal route along the A5 and M54.

All this, of course is very boring, but soon it could become very costly too and long diversions such as this to avoid road tolls could become the norm. Reported in the Sunday Express (Sunday 22nd August 2010) was the news that the EU wants to merge our UK main traffic routes with those on the Continent to form a transport network which would then be fully under their control. Not just content to steal our airspace and sea routes, as they have already done, the EU’s bureaucrats want to filch our roads too – and then twist the knife even further by charging us to drive on them through the creation of this EU-wide road network.. How much more perverse does our EU membership get?

Once the dirty deed is done, with the full approval of our useless, toothless, two-tone coalition Con-Dem Government, this new EU abomination will then open the way for the EU to begin to tolling our motorway system and any other main routes it takes a fancy to. To add insult to injury we may even find our roads are rebranded “E-roads”.

As my UKIP colleague and friend, Mike Nattrass MEP (shown on a campaign bus with Nigel Farage), who sits on the EU Parliament Transport Committee states: “The EU wants to extend the toll motorways network under the European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) Directive despite the fact the under-utilised M6 Toll has proved to be a white elephant.”

He pointed out that motorists avoid the M6 Toll in the Midlands and use other roads as they either want to avoid the cost of using this little used motorway, or as in the case of this blogger, totally object and refuse to use it as a point of principle. As Mike says: “Where is the common sense in the EU’s plans” if it only succeeds in forcing people off our motorways and other fast roads and onto roads which will not be able to cope with the added traffic this would create. Sadly, as we all know too well, nothing the EU does has anything to do with common sense, but all is done to help create its ultimate goal of a single country, the Unted States of Europe where all will be governed by the EU.

For me the regular journeys from Walsall to Wales, which I have been doing since first passing my driving test in 1965, will soon be coming to an end as my old mom is moving back to Walsall and her little house in Dolwyddelan is up for sale. As Mike Nattrass says: Britain should have control over its own roads and not be dictated to by interfering Brussels bureaucrats. The only road I am interested in is the road out of Europe.” Amen to that.

If you have time to read some lenghty EU documents on road tolling, see the links below kindly provided by anti-EU campaigner Anne Palmer:
http://aei.pitt.edu/6662/01/003642_1.pdf

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/its/studies/doc/eg06_obu_vehicle_integration.pdf

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/its/studies/doc/eg03_efc_enforcement.pdf