Last time I checked, road tax was paid per car (etc) not per driver.
You want to take Leanne space away from cars to have cycle lanes? Then why should car drivers pay for that?

To be pedantic, Road Tax is determined by CO2 emissions. My GF's Peugeot 107 pays none, a Renault 1.5 Dci pays £30 and my Transporter £220. So cyclists are exempt by virtue of lower emissions.

It's not a 'road tax' anyway. Only a portion of it gets spent on the roads. It's a simple tax apparently on the basis that if you can afford a car, you can afford to pay more tax.

As far as I'm concerned, everyone has equal rights to use the roads but an equal responsibility to be polite about doing so. Lot of people on both sides of the argument seem to forget that with rights come responsibilities. Car drivers can be idiots, bicyclists can be idiots. The fact some of the 'other side' are idiots does not validate anything.

Ideally, I'd like to see the major 'A' roads of the UK all have cycle lanes, physically separated from the 'car lanes'. Unfortunately this isn't practical even if it was affordable. Unless or until that happens, the basic rule of life applies equally to people on two wheels and four wheels - 'Don't be a dick'.