Classic Car Petition

Post by **lowbug** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:22 pm

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Classic-Cars/

Post by **d_harris** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:40 pm

Hmm, first post with just a link and no explanations.......

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:54 pm

Should've said - moved here from 'General Discussion' too, as it's not strictly Mog related
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Post by **MoggyTech** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:44 am

There's a big thread on Practical Classics about this petition. It's a hoax apparently.

Post by **AndrewSkinner** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:49 am

does anyone know what the idea of the hoax is meant to be??

Someone may have jumped the gun and signed it

It seems very well done and all the links work?

Post by **bigginger** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:07 am

http://www.practicalclassics.co.uk/foru ... php?t=3043

There do seem to be an extraordinary number of these petitions floating around - I used to sign them, but they seem to have no effect on anything much, and they're very often posted by scare mongerers/europhobes and yes, some of them appear to be hoaxes
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Post by **Orkney** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:40 am

About time someone started a petition against petitions

Post by **chickenjohn** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:35 am

I hope it is a fake, but then you never know with the EU these days.

FBHVC says its a hoax http://www.fbhvc.co.uk/news/archive-07.htm

"21st December
Scaremongering - again!
Several e-mails and a telephone call received today suggest that the e-petition calling on the Prime Minister to reject proposals to ban or restrict the use of older cars that we debunked in June in our Newsletter 3/2007 has been given a new lease of life. We do, of course, fully support the principle, but the problem comes with the explanatory note, which says:-

Several EU proposals across the years are dangerous to the classic car movement. One that has been under consideration is to ban the use of cars older than 10 years. Similarly, Edinburgh City Council is considering the banning of cars over 15 years old from the town centre. These, and similar, proposals directly threaten the classic car movement, and encourage the manufacture of new cars, with the attendant environmental issues of sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, distributing and scrapping the spiralling supply of new vehicles.

This is ill-informed and unnecessary scaremongering that helps no-one: it resonates with those who are determined to see the worst in what is going on round us, and spreads the myth that government and EU have ‘got it in for us’. Experience suggests the opposite, but we would be pleased if the sponsor of that e-petition (or anyone else for that matter) could provide us with any evidence to support the claims.
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Make sure you participate in "Drive it day" as a peaceful protest against the possibillity of such things.

Post by **MoggyTech** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:38 pm

What irks me, is tax payers money has been used to set this petition up.

Quote from PC Site

This "petition" is a spoof set up by a bunch of disaffected Commons staff with too much time on their hands, acting on the suggestion of the green-voting daughter of a fairly senior SNP member with a constituency near the Capital.

Unquote.

If the government plebs doing this were replaced with decent honest hard working people, we might save enough money, to actually have a decent transport system. Rant mode off.