An independent report on improving Britain's transport system commissioned by the government has recommended that motorists should pay by the mile for road use. Well I suppose the people who commission independent reports have some right to decide in advance what he findings ought to be before the authors even start to consider the evidence The outcome of this exercise was as predictable as the results of enquiries into the death of a government scientist and the total lack of WMD which in both instances said the mishaps nothing to do with the Government.
Now it is not Little Nicky Machiavelli's way to sing his own praises (he said without a trace of irony) but regular readers may remember I predicted almost a year ago that the governments great transport initiative would amount to nothing more than taxing private motorists of the road to make more room for corporate execs in the chauffeur driven Limos.
Call me simple minded if you like (possums) but I thought the taxes I pay on every gallon of petrol were to subsidise the public transport system. I mean what else could they be for except to fund illegal wars and hand out massive sweeteners to PFI contractors?
The transport report makes a number of claims that are quite startling in their stupidity, the main one being that the £28 billion a year brought in by the new tax will reduce congestion and pollution and benefit rail and bus users so much it will render unnecessary the building of new roads and railways.
Yeah right.
But how are bus and rail users going to benefit when there are no buses or trains that take them anywhere near where they want to go. And when bus and rail operators already announced earlier this week that the additional costs of providing extra services to meet anticipated increases in demand will be passed on to travellers in the form of extra costs.

It all sounds like a gigantic fraud to me. I will bet that the outcome is we all end up paying huge amounts of tax just to keep the transport system we have now.