I generally try to avoid being too serious on here, but I'm feeling the need to draw your attention to the following. This is taken from
“In just 2 weeks fuel duty will rise again, bringing the total tax paid at the pumps to 71 pence in every pound - despite Prime Minister Gordon Brown promising not to raise fuel duty...
Fuel duty is set to rise by roughly 2 pence per litre on April 1st meaning that 66 pence of the average litre of fuel goes directly to the Treasury. Fuel tax goes into a central government tax pot. It's not necessarily allocated back out to motoring, so fuel tax can be spent on anything – the NHS, housing, pensions or even banking bailouts.
At the height of soaring pump prices Brown made a promise during Prime Minister's Questions on July 16th 2008 not to raise fuel duty for a year. He stated: 'In recognition of the problem people face with petrol, we are freezing duty on petrol for the full year.' Brown broke this promise in December 2008 when he added 2 pence per litre to fuel duty to offset the reduction of VAT to 15%... He is set to break the promise for a second time on April 1st when fuel duty on unleaded and diesel will rise 1.84 pence per litre. Including the additional 15% VAT on top this will make the rise at the pumps around 2 pence per litre.”
Lies, lies, lies. I don't know why the British people voted for him. Oh yeah, that's right—we didn't.
Okay, that's it.
Did you know that "Prime Minister Gordon Brown" is an anagram of "Lying Thieving Unelected Bastard"? Too good to be true isn't it? Yes, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteI know that "Virginia Bottomley" is an anagram of "Evil Tory Bigot". And that is true.
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