The news that NM Rothschild have proposed a radical plan to raise £100 billion by privatising the motorway network leaves me really angry. These roads have been paid for, many times over, by our Road Fund Licence and petrol taxes and I will not pay again.
Yes, the UK needs the money as Gordon Brown incompetently spent more money than he could afford on fripperies and building a Labour voting client state. This is not the way to raise the money though; a better way would be a 90% tax on all Labour MPs income for the next 1,000 years and a special "now do you understand why you shouldn't vote Labour" tax payable by all the fools who voted Labour since 1997. This tax would be on a sliding scale: 2% for those who voted Labour just in 1997 (they can be almost, but not entirely, forgiven their lack of common sense), 5% for those who voted Labour in 2001 (surely you should have noticed what sort of people the government were by then), 10% for those who voted Labour in 2005 (I can see no possible excuse for their level of stupidity). Of course people will still vote Labour at the next election and they should have an additional "they fucked the economy up and ruined the country" tax of 10% applied to their income, if any.
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We paid for them so we get to keep the £100 billion privatisation proceeds. The ownership is not the issue. The issue is that we will probably get a very poor value and the subsequent toll collecting mechanism will be very inefficient. The cheapest and most efficient way to tax road usage is petrol duty.
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