A Big Thank You!

A big thank you goes to the people of Greater Manchester, who were courageous enough to vote decisively against the latest attempts by political officialdom to both bribe and extort them simultaneously.  The inhabitants of all ten metropolitan districts (I do wish the BBC would stop referring to them as 'boroughs') opted to overwhelmingly defeat the proposal to charge up to £5 per day to travel into the city and many of its suburbs. 

Sandinista Gordonistas, not to be deflected from their overriding mission to screw Middle Britain, plan to press ahead with studies aimed at the introduction of road pricing schemes in other parts of the UK.  However, they may find redoubled opposition from local authorities.  Leeds has already pledged to resist road pricing for the city, and others will undoubtedly follow.  It may be that the Feckless and Fecund Revolutionary Socialist Movement, alas currently occupying the role of government in this United Kingdom, will want to avoid asking the people in future (Lisbon Treaty redux) because they know exactly what the answer will be.  Those battles are for another day.  Meanwhile, let's thank Mancunians for restating what the Left have been trying to deny for the last decade or so: that the car is king!!