I am not sure how many Brits we have here...

[ainu-laire.livejournal.com]

... but even with all the crap our administration is trying to push through here in America, we haven't gone this far:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/carbon/6527970/Everyone-in-Britain-could-be-given-a-personal-carbon-allowance.html

Really, British government? Really? *boggles*

Comments

[ccr1138.livejournal.com]

What appalls me besides the stupidity of it is this: You can never purchase gas anonymously. The government will have a record of where you are. In the UK they already have CCTV to such an extent that there's no privacy, but wow. Do people really want the government to track their every move?

I can forsee a black market in gasoline for people who don't want their moves tracked.

[longlostblue.livejournal.com]

Oh, honestly.

[fionavere.livejournal.com]

Where Britian goes, so goes the United States. We've been only a few steps behind the UK for years now, and with Obama as president, we're swiftly closing the gap. I could see this being proposed here within this presidential term.

[karmic-serenity.livejournal.com]

Please let the 2010 elections bring us back to sanity.

[princess-ailina.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing George Bush "stole" the election from Al (I want a recount until I'm declared the winner) Gore in 2000 - or else we'd already be there!

[proverbial-one.livejournal.com]

I can't wait until the elections next year in my country of birth! Right now, the government is having to tread a very fine line. There are still repercussions being felt from the ministerial expenses row. And there HAS to be an election next year because there wasn't one this year.

To be honest, I didn't think much of the CCTV growing up. The general feeling was that if you weren't doing anything wrong, you didn't have anything to worry about, and besides you're in the public eye anyway. Town centres are very different in the UK to here; you do the majority of your shopping in the town and not at a mall. CCTV helps track down perpetrators of theft, violence and vandalism in the centres. I've never heard any of my UK friends and family complaining about lack of privacy. It certainly doesn't spy on you in your back garden for example.