Weston Super Saint

Have you been staying away for five years

Scooby doo?

And yet he still bought a house next to an airport. I wonder what he thought they were going to do...

Hmmmmm Dark hair and a moustache eh? I bet it was Graeme Souness :shock:

£5?

Then we could re-introduce the poll tax and really get things going backwards

She lives in Oxfordshire

It wouldn't be if Oxford built a regional airport

At the rate things are going, it's great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren. It's almost the same as saying that neanderthal man didn't give a monkeys about how many Great Woolly Mammoths he left for us to look at

1. You can check in 'online' before you fly - or even at a self check in computer when you get there. Providing you have no luggage it is a 1 minute job. 2. Internal flights require only 20 minutes to check in, not two hours. 3. You would have to drive to the train station to catch the train anyway. 4. You would still need to arrive before the train left - probably about 10 minutes to be safe. 5. We don't have, nor are we even close to having a high speed rail network.

What if we scrapped the railway network all together and just used planes? After all the Ozone layer is closing back up isn't it, and we are still pumping that nasty CO2 into the atmosphere. Oh, and the global warming that CO2 was to blame for has stopped too.

Frankly, I can't see any Government that implements that sort of policy lasting past the next election. Political suicide is never going to be on the agenda for the people who's livelihoods depend on being in power.

LOL. So that wouldn't be able to track people's cars then? It's all well and good saying that the data 'would have' to be held seperately from personal data, but we already have ANPR systems all over the motorway network tracking number plates etc. Also, rural drivers wouldn't be charged? How ludicrous is that? Surely the motorways would be empty with everyone taking the non charged roads?

It's 1hr 15 minutes to fly from London to Edinburgh. For some people, time is more important than money....

Blast from the past :shock:

So, you don't have an answer then?

Also, you could probably have bought a second hand car for £100, spent £100 on fuel and saved £100. Probably would have got there quicker too!

Please explain how you will charge people by how much they drive, without some sort of tracking device..... Unless of course you meant to just put the tax on fuel up even more

Re-nationalise the coal industry? Excellent news for the Unions, they haven't had a decent strike in years!

Because it isn't profitable

And the way to do this is with a GPS tracker in every vehicle right? And you were complaining about the Government knowing too much about our movements with an ID card

So why don't we do it?

LOL. And end up driving more people onto the roads

I bet she made it up

To be fair I'd go with : a little faster than now and affordable. How exactly will it happen though - it's not like we need more railway tracks is it? I think people choose internal flights over trains because even with the waiting around / check in etc, the plane is still more enjoyable than trundling along in a stinking train carriage stopping every ten minutes for one person to get off / on.