My mistake, I thought that :
" "See and avoid" is simply bollox."
- meant that you felt VFR to be unsafe. Given your obvious concern for the wellbeing of all those flying within the IFR system, it is not a great leap to conclude that you would not advocate allowing any type of flight that you believe to be a risk to their safety. Additionally, to dismiss the very basis of VFR, struck me as a pretty arrogant statement. After all, VFR flight has been around a long time and has proven to be a reasonably safe way of getting around.
You have still not offered any reasoned argument as to why a VFR flight, which does not need, nor want, an ATC service, should pay any charge, according to your rules of fairness, or otherwise.
Probably not finally, I fly both VFR and IFR, piston and turbine Hi and Lo. My interests are diverse. It may well be that I do not have a clue what aviation is about, but I do have a clue what self serving public servants trying to justify increased taxes are about.