Fuel Duty

[TWR]

How is this going to effect you? are you lovely people happy that you voted with a coalition government? are you man enough to say you did?

[pretty_snowdrop]

I am quite happy i voted for the coalition, far better than the muppets they replaced.

[Hopkirk]

Do you really think Labour would be any different?

[TWR]

Sunday Mirror today Red, reports families hard pressed to live, going into higher rated credit cards to survive, even some big wigs are complaining, but surely the last government was not as bad as this lot.

[flump1]

I voted Liberal ....any of the parties would have continued the inevitable duty on fuel.

[craft1948]

I voted for a Conservative government so am not altogether happy.............however anything is better than the last lot.

[whiskeryron]

are you lot wearing blinkers ? At the moment the Lunatics are running the Asylum there's no other way of putting it.

Ron.

[DTCwordfan]

yes and the Labour Party would have had it much higher, TWR, remember it wasn't that long ago that the Coalition prevented the duty rise. Thank God - stupid policy that your lot put in place, and also that successive governments have had the audacity to take the extra VAT off the excise duty - i.e. increase excise by 10 p and VAT goes up by 2p.

[TWR]

DT, I cannot remember the amount of people now out of work because of these clowns, what Government allows a French comp take or going to take an order for trains putting 1600 people out of work and in another breath saying the will put people back in wok?

[SIRandyraven]

Yes fuel is expensive.
But the roads are much more clearer.
So for me ....keep the tax high ...Makes driving more pleasant.

I guess when the Iran US/Israel war starts in the next 12 months and the price hits £2 a litre , the roads will be empty.

[bednobs]

hi TWR, this is becoming a well worn record - about 10 posts regarding the government or fuel and the government since November. I get it. You hate the coalition and you hate fuel prices. i get it i really really do.

[ummmm]

What has the amount of people out of work got to do with the price of fuel? We're in a recession...a worldwide recession. People lose their jobs in recessions.

[ladybirder]

SirA, the roads clearer, really, not where I live they're not. Is the price of petrol really making that much difference?

[DTCwordfan]

I don't know what Bombardier has to do with fuel prices, TWR? Please explain the linkage.

The clowns were Blair and Brown and their ijiots who put us in this financial squeeze, which would have happened without the global financial crisis. What ijiot sells off all our gold at the bottom of the market.

That was treason in my book, and for Blair, well he was the man that stuffed up Iraq well and truly. The great Labour leaders of the past are probably spinning in their graves and Ed Millipede will have them doubling their rate.

[NoMercy]

Labour were a bunch of Crowd Pleasers. At least the incumbent government have the balls to impose measures to dig us out of the hole that we are in.

[EDDIE51]

i voted for the Green party again have done so for the last 3 elections.

[DTCwordfan]

the question here is if Osbourne will use his delta between predicted borrowing and actual (put at some 10 bln going into the Budget) into excise duty relief or as a contingency for borrowing in the future - and maybe the borrowing juggernaut/supertanker is starting to turn if the gap is sustained, much to the angst of TWR and mates.

Iran could of course blow all this apart - the mere burst of a machine gun or capture of an "Allied" RIB setting off an incident that could see >$200/bbl oil. So be it, we have to live our way through a world crisis, the action being that the Government freezes it's excise and VAT take to help offset the pain that hits us, and all world economies as oil is truly a world market.

[atalanta]

Are you assuming only men voted for a coalition government ?
It is not possible to vote for a coalition government, either for male or female voters.