hat a 2p-per-litre fuel duty increase had been put back from April to October and fuel duty was "still 11% below its 1999 level, in real terms".In short utter crap, if according to the graph one is paying 68/72 back in 1999 and according to this same graph that one is now paying 114-128 now. How in the name of all that is holy can that be 11% below the 1999 level in real terms?
Hundreds of lorry drivers angry at soaring fuel prices are protesting in London and the along the M4 in Wales.
A convoy of trucks closed the A40 into the city as hauliers parked up and went to join a rally in central London before petitioning 10 Downing Street.
In Wales, a two-mile line of lorries crawled along the M4 towards Cardiff.
Hauliers say diesel prices topping 120p a litre, plus the government's planned 2p fuel tax rise, will drive firms "to the wall". They want a fuel tax rebate.The protest comes as Chancellor Alistair Darling prepares for a meeting next week with Labour MPs concerned about plans to increase road tax on older, more polluting vehicles.
Forty-two MPs have signed a Commons motion asking the government to reconsider.
The EDM is aimed at Bottler Brown, after all one can imagine that all those MP's are rather worried about losing their seats and maybe having to earn a living like the rest of us:
EDM 1464 - VEHICLE EXCISE DUTYCampbell, RonnieThat this House is concerned at the retrospective effect of the vehicle excise duty changes announced in Budget 2008 to take effect from 2009; and asks the Government to reconsider.
Organisers from protest group Transaction 2007 led a lunch-time rally at London's Marble Arch. They said the price of fuel was "rocketing" and the government had the power to act, but was not listening.
Haulage company boss Peter Carroll said: "We are being murdered and you would not walk past a drowning man."
The industry says fuel bill rises mean many UK companies will go to the wall. While the government cannot control global oil prices, it wants an "essential user" duty rebate on fuel of between 20p and 25p a litre to ease competition with foreign haulage companies.
“This is not just a few angry hauliers,” said Peter Carroll, a spokesman for the lobby group Transaction 2007. “This is a whole industry saying you are going to kill us and you have got the power to stop it.”
Mr Carroll, who runs Seymour Transport in Maidstone, Kent, said that his company’s fuel bill had risen by £40,000 a month since last October and other companies were suffering even more. Their problems had been aggravated by competition from foreign lorries which arrive in Britain “with tanks full of cheaper fuel”.
According to figures from the Department for Transport last week, the number of foreign-registered goods vehicles entering Britain reached a record high of 1.7 million last year.
**Now this is what I see happening, some vague spin from HM Govt, sure that has already started but expect more about how we have never had it so good, how dare you complain and don't you realise that we have your best interests at heart you scummy proles...
Then they will wheel out some spokeperson on the orders of Bottler to say that HM Govt will not be dictated to by the plebs and proles.
Expect a few attacks on the character of the organisers of the fuel protests. All the best tactics will come out of the New Labour manual for government, which most of know as George Orwell's book 1984.
Finally Brown will state that he has decided to be "prudent" and attempt to offer a bribe in the form of holding off prices rises, or even a slight reduction in prices - although my money is on the first. Mind you he might even offer some form of tax credit, with billions of pages for people to fill in! After all we all know how sucessful tax credits have been in other areas.
Whilst doing this he will be claiming that its all nothing to do with him and all the fault of the nasty oil companies/OPEC/Pixies and assorted evil sprites an other elfen folk who are doing their worst.
Lastly he will try to pass the blame onto the Tories claiming that despite holding onto power for 11 years, in some bizarre way it is also their fault.
As Tacitus wrote of the assasinated emperor Galba: “Consensu omnium, capax imperii nisi imperasset”, which is translated roughly as “Everyone agreed that he was capable of ruling until he actually got the job”.The same applies to Bottler Brown.
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What's bigging me is the way the Government has started blaming the price of oil for the pump price, but further than that, the way the media, and even the fucking Tories, are agreeing!
For every PENNY the manufacturers put on a litre of petrol, or diesel, the price at the pump goes up by nearly 8 PENCE, and the difference between that single penny and what the price actually goes up by, is TAX. Put a tenner of fuel in your car and £7.80 is fucking tax, so blaming the price of oil is really fucking naughty as it represents a tiny portion of the increase.
Indeed and what is great is that no matter what our one eye'd leader does he will cock it right up and make matters worse.
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