Oh jolly!! Not to make light of this serious subject but. I am aware that we fund the "Dome" and many other initiatives and smaller charities from our gambling, habitual, hope it will be me this week, lottery money. But We are not asked how it should be spent. Here and where I used to live are a playgroups, they can't get lottery money! They only just manage to exist and they are needed badly. They (Government) can throw millions of "our" money to the "Dome", The national Opera house (£46.000.000) and yet only a pittance to the smaller "good" causes.!! Lottery money has and is going into school as NoFTI (new opportunities funding training initiative) for Computer training,and helped to set up the national grid for learning. I am not saying that what is happening is the best thing going, but how else do the people make the government listen to the wishes of the people?-(Do you want the poll tax back?) I know that there is diversity of feeling on this as there is on many things, but be honest-If the tax on petrol went down (not to be replaced with another form of tax) How many people would send the extra revenue to the gevernment because they didn't support the action? It like the trade unions who (though I don't always agree with how things have happened) strike for a pay rise and every employee gets the rise-nobody says "I didn't strike, don't give it to me". I would use public transport more myself if it was affordable, but it isn't and I have waited for non existant buses and been in places where there isn't a bus today the next one is Thursday. What ever happens, things will get interesting. Cheers (only a little petrol but a bicycle) Eric