Comments on: Fuel Lobby threaten the vote

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:50:21 +0000

Presumably, you’d also be happy to pay the much higher levels of corporation tax and national insurance, just like your French counterparts do, then?

By: john

john — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:14:13 +0000

we in in the haulage industry would like to have the same tax level on fuel as the french & dutch etc alowing us to compete on even terms

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:09:50 +0000

…not so many people getting to work, not so many goods and services reaching their destination, not so much food in the shops, not so much income to the country, not so much money available for essential government services…

No, nothing serious to worry about at all. Feel free to act like a dumb little thug all you want.

By: maureen foster

maureen foster — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:18:34 +0000

I fully support the fuel protesters. I will walk where I have to go to support them. I can see this will have other effects, not so much money paid to enter central London, not so many police/councils making so much money from ‘safety camera’s’ and parking fines, as there won’t be so many cars there offend. What a shame!

By: Fin

Fin — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:35:44 +0000

Garry; therein lies the argument againstTthe Fuel Lobby…

By: garry

garry — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:40:27 +0000

about time it happened a fuel strike we need 1 we getten ripped off all ways was charged 80 quid for motor on drive no sorn its stupid we sould do as the french and all stick together on this good work

By: tom

tom — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:38:13 +0000

We desperately need some kind of fuel stabilisation formula which would result in tax levels on fuel being reduced as world oil prices increase.

I love the idea of a tax system in which businesses can increase their profit levels almost without limit, knowing that the government will shield them from any adverse consumer reaction by lowering the tax on the goods. That’d work really well. Oh yeah.

By: Watching Them, Watching Us

Watching Them, Watching Us — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:30:05 +0000

“the government is doing the haulage industry a bit of a favour here by not using a percentage tax, which would have exacerbated the recent world oil price changes much more”

Value Added Rax @ 17.5% ?

Even if they do actually blockade oil refineries from iin the week before Polling Day, this will not lead to immediate petrol or diesel shortages, judging by the previous time, so any talk of a “threat” to the Election is rubbish.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:02:28 +0000

Fuel protests could be the wildcard in this election, mind you. Which is scary, as it could even cause enough of a swing in the opinion polls towards the Tories (as it did in 2000) to help them win the election!

By: Iain

Iain — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:23:42 +0000

Hey, whinge about policies you don’t like by all means; its everyone’s democratic right to do so. But when their democratic right to whinge gets in the way of my right to get to work in the morning, then I’m all for moving the bastages out of the way with a few anti-tank missiles.

By: badly dubbed boy

badly dubbed boy — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:24:18 +0000

The Govt. didn’t exactly stand up to them last time, did they? Why?

because probably, deep down, most voters feel the same way about fuel prices. Why does it keep going up etc.? They don’t give a toss about global warming, the rationale that they need to cut down on fuel consumption and the like because they like driving to work et. al. — people like The Fuel Lobby are just a radical manifestation of that thought.

So we’re all going to go to hell in a basket.

By: Iain

Iain — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:32:41 +0000

You don’t expect a coherent argument from those morons, do you? Their entire reason for existence is to argue that they shouldn’t have to pay more for things, just because the price has gone up.

By their logic, I want to know when the Government is going to hand me about �100,000 to offset how much faster than inflation the price of houses round here has gone up by.