[northwind]

No, wait till there's a bill, or at the very least an actual proposal, and then get into that. Or construct a debate based around objections to tracking in general. This is a mess, it's neither one or the other- that makes it unfocused and esay to ignore. They can literally respond "You've all been mislead by the petition writers, these "proposals" are nothing of the sort. Move along".

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy"

"WE, HM government, do not have a published plan for vehicle tracking to scrap. Yours, the govt."
Next week, they can start a "new" one. And that petition was specifically only agains the old plan, which at the danger of repeating myself, actually doesn't exist. The actual chain email's complete rubbish...

It doesn't matter that most people will be making a general objection against the idea of track and trace- the petition's too specific, regardless of intent.

"We, the undersigned, state our objection to the implementation of tracking private vehicles on public roads for any purpose. This represents a potential invasion of privacy which is not acceptable, regardless of any possible benefits. We petition the Prime Minister to renounce the concept of constant vehicle tracking."

Something like that. That could be cleaned up loads, I'm sure- but when you make a demand, you don't give the target space to wriggle out of it.

Something like that.