done, but after reading through this lot I feel just as hopeless as I ever did 
We live in a beautiful country (well, most of it), shame about the useless idiots who “run” it, we’re long overdue a revolution (about time we, the public, collectively grew “a pair”) 
I got a whiff of Neil’s cigarette and can only agree about the road tolls and vignettes, Your government, the ones you voted in turned down the chance of joining the Eurovignette in the early days when it was shared proportionately between the member countries. Germany got the lions share. Greece and Portugal iirc got a rebate on the price, but France and the UK were against it. At the time it was introduced, many mentioned how easy it would have been to collect. A dozen portacabins at the RORO docks and a couple of dozen men or women to run the scheme.
The UK excise duty was reduced but hauliers didn’t rejoice, they simply cut their haulage rates or failed to increase them sufficiently