Gordon Brown's futuristic eco-towns to fine residents for driving out of city limits

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[Sub-Driver]

Gordon Brown's futuristic eco-towns to fine residents for driving out of city limits Jill Sherman, Whitehall Editor

Motorists living in Gordon Brown's futuristic green communities face fines for driving their cars out of town, under radical proposals being drawn up by ministers, The Times has learnt.

Residents of the largely pedestrianised eco-towns may also be expected to park their cars at the outskirts and walk or cycle to their homes, up to ten minutes away.

These are among possible ways being discussed with ministers to meet a government target to cut car use in eco-towns by half. Detailed planning proposals will be published next month, a senior Whitehall official said.

The proposals could include a fee for a permanent car space at the edge of town, charges for driving out at peak congestion times, or penalties for taking a car out of town above a set number of agreed journeys.

The official emphasised that the rules would be adapted for more rural areas, where there was less public transport. “But outside Cambridge or near Stansted airport, for example, where there are strong transport links, you could be charged for driving out [of the eco-town],” the official said.

[Sub-Driver]

what insanity....

[Argus]

Obama’s planned eco-towns will also limit the amount any single person can eat to the equivalent of whatever an African peasant would have.

It’s for the CHIIIIIIILDREN!

[mojito]

Gordon Brown, the bureaucrats bureaucrat.

[sergeantdave]

New Exhibit Explores Hitler’s ‘Germania’

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,540558,00.html

[decimon]

“You are Eco 6.”

“Who is Eco 1?”

“You may not drive a car.”

“I am a free man!”

[nkycincinnatikid]

Friar Tuck,,
The Sheriff of Nottingham has returned. Lets meet.
Robin.

[BigCinBigD]

Doing their bit for Queen and country.

[wastedyears]

Britain is going bye-bye.

[ronnie raygun]

We are truley at a turning point if we allow Obama who is the icing on the cake for the socialist marxists rebels and the liberal progressive demonrats to send this country down the toilet. How much more disturbing information on this man do we need to know? The media is also in his bed along with the very senators and congressmen you voted for. All working in concert to destroy the country our fathers and mothers had worked so hard to build for us and our families and future generations. VOTE LIKE YOU MEAN IT, DEFEAT THE HORDS OF ANTI AMERICAN, ANTI CAPITOLIST DREGS.

[dljordan]

Lets see, you destroy British culture through excessive immigration, insane self-defense laws and socialism. You then set up a pervasiive surveillance and monitoring system. The next step is to confine the citizens to their immediate areas through social engineering. A high tech prison system all right. I guess the end step is to get rid of those deemed unwanted.

[mountn man]

Motorists living in Gordon Brown's futuristic green communities face fines for driving their cars out of town, under radical proposals being drawn up by ministers, The Times has learnt.

Residents of the largely pedestrianised eco-towns may also be expected to park their cars at the outskirts and walk or cycle to their homes, up to ten minutes away.

Hey howabout they park their cars outside of town and get fined if they ever drive them outside of town.

And don't even think about riding a bike to the next town, that will use too much human energy, requiring one to eat more food, and producing more carbon dioxide.

[BlazingArizona]

Gordon Brown's futuristic eco-towns to fine residents for driving out of city limits Jill Sherman, Whitehall Editor

Stay home and eat your Soylent Green tikka masala!

[spokeshave]

"I guess the end step is to get rid of those deemed unwanted."

Yeah...its called the NHS (National Health Service) in UK.

[NormsRevenge]

lolol .. oh mannnn .. Gordon!!!

If it’s Brown,

Flush it down.

[balls]

Four wheels bad, two wheels good.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The environmental movement and it's puppets in the Left are determined to make everyday life more difficult and more expensive for people. Every convenience which makes modern Western life the healthiest, safest, most empowered and least stressful in the history of man is attacked with dubious claims about it's impact on the environment.

We can see the same type of thing here in the US - oil prices skyrocket and liberal politicians immediately revoke the laws of supply and demand to claim "we can't drill our way out of this". Freeways are jammed and liberal politicians immediately claim "we can't build our way out of this" and refuse new freeway construction, instead diverting billions to unused mass-transit schemes. Liberal/environmental policy today consists of a litany of things we supposedly can't do.

[Doc Savage]

That's nothing! I'm setting up massive dysfunctional urban tracts where residents see themselves as victims of Capitalism. These cities will sponsor countless abortion clinics where unborn children will be murdered; a state penal system which coddles inmates, allows killers back on the streets, and arrests innocent civilians who may try to defend themselves.

My new state will be ridiculously weak on defense, will have no territorial boundaries, limits or rules. It will tax individuals until they bleed which will then backup our absolutely insane national health program.

The masters of this state will be corrupt, they will lie, they will cheat, and above all they will be arrogant, condescending, and make the stupidest laws possible............................................................

Oh, wait! We already have this. My bad!

[JimC214]

On a lighter note, Mayor Bloomberg is upset that he didn't think of this first.

[JimC214]

On a lighter note, Mayor Bloomberg is upset that he didn't think of this first.

[Clint Williams]

Lets see, you destroy British culture through excessive immigration, insane self-defense laws and socialism. You then set up a pervasive surveillance and monitoring system. The next step is to confine the citizens to their immediate areas through social engineering. A high tech prison system all right. I guess the end step is to get rid of those deemed unwanted.

If you want to see the future the Brits (and many others) will live in, watch carefully the rights they take away from "registered sex offenders" without due process of law. Those are today's Juden, the first to fall under the hammer. But they won't be the last, and if you're libertarian or conservative, opposed to the Zeitgeist, you should be concerned. At the least.

But hey. YMMV