Kind people would describe the utterings of European Commissioners and pompous old men that want to go down in history as the creators of a Unified Europe on countries that have been dragging their feet on ratifying the Maastricht Treaty as a trifle authoritarian, others would describe them as downright fascist, but if proof were […]
Kind people would describe the utterings of European Commissioners and pompous old men that want to go down in history as the creators of a Unified Europe on countries that have been dragging their feet on ratifying the Maastricht Treaty as a trifle authoritarian, others would describe them as downright fascist, but if proof were needed that a latent Eurofascism lurks in Brussels, it comes with the proposal of a means to tax us on the basis of our usage of Community roads: the simplest system would probably be a Smart Card that disabled the ignition as the money on it ran out, which you would recharge with cash at the same time as you filled up with petrol; if gradations of charges were wanted for different types of road, the mechanism to put the system onto a new tariff could be triggered as the vehicle passed a roadside post – a simple system and beneficial to the European Smart Card industry; but no, according to the Evening Standard, the idea being floated in Brussels is a spy in the sky satellite that would track a chip in each number plate, so that Big Brother would know at all times in real time where every motorist was; we already have to give away far too many of our movements for comfort with credit card and automatic teller machine transactions, but for the spy in the sky satellite, Hitler would have given not only his quiff and his moustache, but even the appendage of which according to the ribald rhyme he had one more of than Goebbels.
