Putting the brakes on bureaucracy and pointless spending of taxes in Britain could not be more sharply needed when you look at the latest government cuts to funding speed cameras. They say it will stop them being used as cash cows and the Daily Mail reports treasury revenue of £110 million a year being gained from their use.
Yet a quick look at what funding the 'charity' BRAKE has received from taxpayers, to campaign against taxpayers using their roads without a camera in their face every couple of hundred yards, will show that these so called charities are nothing more than another waste of space and money just like road cameras which turned us into a spy society under Labour.
I don't get it actually, why taxpayers are funding charities but BRAKE is not the only one. Check that link above to 'fake charities' and it will open your eyes if you're not already aware, to the massive spending which is largely unseen, to 'charities' so that they can campaign against the very people who are meeting the bill for their existence.
Personally, I don't drink and drive and I think there should be zero tolerance on that but that's beside the point. I still wouldn't want the entire population to meet the cost of what amounts to me promoting my views on to others who are completely unaware I'm being funded by them to argue with them!
And that's the point of this article, to show you that taxpayers funding campaigns of any nature is really undemocratic and wrong. Taking this one example, why (if I felt like campaigning which I don't), should taxpayers pay for me to campaign? How much do I pay myself from this 'charity', and how much is the wages bill, office costs and stationary costing the taxpayer to help me with my 'campaign'?
Needless to say, this represents only the kind of underhanded crap spouted by ZanuLabour where they will take taxpayers money, spend it like water, tell you nothing about where it goes or ask you if you want it spent, then tell you they are 'listening' to the views of lobbyists like BRAKE when they order another £200 million to be spent on cameras no one wanted but BRAKE.
All the government had to do was to have the guts to place a policy into its manifesto prior to election, that if it were elected it would BAN drinking all together for motorists. Too easy? Not agree?......That's as maybe but at least it's democracy. Which WITHOUT this kind of approach to politics will mean we go from a to b, or from Tory to Labour, every god damn 5 years without having a say at all and with just a pile a costs for the money THEY choose to spend without asking us.
At least now the government has said councils will pay for cameras, it means we have the ability to go ask the council why they are spending our money on crappy cameras, or indeed giving it away to fake charities like BRAKE, when our bills come in for council taxes.
According to the 2007 accounts, Brake's income for road safety education was £296,984. The Department for Transport provided a grant of £41,811. It received further government grants totalling £17,480.
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