STUFF IT UP THE EU's EXHAUST PIPE

Road tolls, to bring bumper to bumper congestion.

Here’s a conundrum for you, how do you create almost deserted free flowing motorways and traffic mayhem and congestion at the same time? Our Transport Minister, Justine Greening has the answer, which is, of course, slap road tolls on our motorways and busiest roads. Once this is done you will see most cars and heavy lorries pull off the motorways quicker than bathers getting out of a swimming pool with a floater in it. The mayhem on the untolled roads that can’t cope with large volumes of traffic will be immense.

Sadly, as usual, our silly little Transport Minister, who constantly looks way out of her depth, is going through the well known Basil Faulty syndrome of ‘don’t mention the EU’ when making the announcement of this extremely unpopular Tory Party volte face on road tolling. They have publically let it be known that a proposed upgraded 20 mile section of the A14 is to be tolled. Anyone with an ounce of knowledge of the EU’s devious little ways will know that by introducing this road toll our elected Government, is yet again, complying with orders from above in the unelected EU. The only thing is, like Basil Faulty by not stating this is to comply with the EU’s TEN-T project on road tolling, they think they “got away with it”.

Sadly, they are not only trying to dupe and fool the electorate, they are also fooling themselves. This disastrous coalition two-tone Government are not getting away with anything, they are going to get well and truly hammered by a very pissed off and frustrated electorate in the European election in 2014 and then again in 2015, if the coalition can hold on until then which is increasingly doubtful.

To see that road tolling does not work the Transport Minister only has to poke her stubby little nose out of the confines of Westminster and look north to the white elephant that is the M6 Toll. This was the road that was going to relieve the massive congestion problems on the M6 around the Black Country, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Birmingham – hardly anyone uses it as no one, especially hard pressed hauliers, want to pay to use a road that technically, their taxes, excessive fuel duties and Road Fun Licence has already paid for – it is madness to ask road users to pay for the use of the roads twice over – or even more than that when you look at how much every Government screws out of the motorist one way or another.

The M6 Toll is was a none starter from the off, because road users object to the extra unnecessary costs of road tolls not enough of them use it, which means the only way the toll operator can try to cover its cost is by increasing its toll fees which then results in even less traffic and few tolls being collected thus creating a downward spiral.

Naturally, those who stop using the toll road because of the spiralling costs have to use another route, thus adding to the problems on the M6 which the M6 Toll was supposed to relieve. As the M6 can no longer cope the Government is now forced to spend a massive amount of money on the M6 to ease the congestion while the M6 Toll remains little used. If you want a perfect example of motoring madness you only have to look at road tolls which create more problems than they solve.

If little missy Transport Minister, Justine Greening, and our useless lump of a Government, really wanted to do what they were elected to do and start looking after the interests of the people of the UK, they would tell the EU exactly where it can stick its bureaucratic thousands of pages of legislation and its TEN-T’s inspired traffic clogging road tolls, which is to ram them right up its ring of gold starred exhaust pipe.