Keith wrote on Feb 1
st, 2007 at 9:42am:
Long way to go before it overtakes the 1st petition on Road pricing which has over 600,000 signatures, but as that is growing by 5,000 - 10,000 signatures per day I'm rather suspicious that these are genuine signatures!!!!
I think you forget how many car clubs etc there are out there and that a lot of them are actively promoting the signing of this petition to their members.
Whereas this is the hidden ripoff that most of the public are still totally unaware of. Also annoying though this telephone con is the consequences on the freedom of the individual of New Labour road pricing and conjoined spy in the cab proposals (which will also obviously potentially track your speed everywhere) are even more frightening and disturbing. The only thing can you say is that at least those proposals are not hidden and are in the public domain and being discussed long before they may be implemented.
The single step that would vastly increase the number of signatures is for Martin Lewis to give the petition star billing in his weekly MSE emailing and/or to put a similar banner message to sign the petition on his website.
But I don't like this petition because it does not criticise Ofcom for their failure to act and demand that Ofcom takes action. And I consider that Ofcom and their equally incompetent predecessor OFTEL are the primary guilty parties over this issue.
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