How Stupid Does GB Think We Are?
Gordon is a moron, but I think most Brits already knew that. Our idiotic PM is planning to raise tax on older ‘polluting’ cars to save “1.3m tonnes of CO2 and increase the number of clean cars” – his own words in parliament today.
This is a tax on people who can not afford a new car – plain and simple.
From a personal point of view, I have just sold my car and am thinking about buying an old cheap banger. It would be for emergencies only and would do very low mileage. It would produce a hell of a lot less CO2 overall than Joe Bloggs down the road, who has a lovely new car, but uses his car for every journey imaginable.
The Road Fund Licence is nothing but a tax on car ownership. We are already taxed hugely on fuel and this costs uneconomical (polluting) cars more. We do not need another ‘green’ tax when we already pay one.
Gordon Brown must really think we are stupid. He is earning extra VAT (which is a tax on the tax) on the fuel as it increases and the treasury coffers must be overflowing with this windfall. What the hell is he doing with this increased revenue that he could never have bargained for.
I. like many others, will vote for the lesser of the evils and I think Mr Brown is now the greatest of the evils.
OH MY GOD – I think I am becoming a Conservative supporter.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Frightening, isn’t it? To regularly find the Conservatives to the left of Labour I mean. Watching them both float aimlessly around the middle ground, at risk of losing their hard-line supporters, with the hope of attracting ‘ordinary’ voters- as if anyone will vote for either for any reason other than that you have given: Because they believe them to be the lesser of two evils. They both know there is no current realistic alternative.
That’s a good question- what is he doing with this extra revenue? I should imagine a good proportion goes to paying over the odds for private companies to provide our public services, or to subsidize privately operated ‘social housing’.
Of course he wants to tax road users more. He has to be seen to do something, under the pretence of ‘taking action’ on climate change. Any deity you like forbid he should attempt to legislate in a way which would affect big business, and take action against those still manufacturing and distributing the polluting cars. You don’t agitate the people holding the purse strings now, do you?
That said, as long as our purse strings are in the possession of those who abuse the privilege, I see no other option!