Are these MP’s mad?

If they pass these sort of proposals motoring is doomed. And the hypocrisy of them is unbelievable.

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Steve.

Peter - that's a bit extreme! I had you down as a pleasantr, peaceful soul :-o

the worst bit is he drives an old polluting bmw, and yet he is preaching about cutting down on pollution, some people may as well just have a big tatoo on their forhead saying

i am a tit, please shoot me down in flames

honestly

i read about the tax brackets the other day in the paper, and they were rediculous, i think only a very small amount of cars came in the under 1K bracket and most were above that, the only cars to fall into the tax free on was total electric, and the prius was the only one in the next bracket up

We're not alone in our thoughts....

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Why are we surprised when politicians play politics? It's not like they are supposed to be real adults... they are, after all, politicians and don't have real jobs and aren't playing around with their money.

Max

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Maureen Murphy

Now I know what a statesman is - a dead politician, I’ve come to the conclusion the we need more statesmen.

Bob Edwards

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

Unknown

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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