Blackbriar 8,568 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 With the economy pretty stagnant, will Osborne return to milking that most reliable of cash cows ? Conservative MPs 'mobilising' against Budget fuel duty rise - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35743161 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BIGLURKS 874 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 f***ing better not iam enjoying see the litres digits go higher then the pound signs these days one thing I've never understood is why they want too rape us on fuel 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tiercel 6,986 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 f***ing better not iam enjoying see the litres digits go higher then the pound signs these days one thing I've never understood is why they want too rape us on fuel Because we are so dependant on it. Easy money for them. TC 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,189 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 Heard on radio interest rates going to be so low,0 percent? So i suppose they going to get it from somewhere . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BIGLURKS 874 Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 f***ing better not iam enjoying see the litres digits go higher then the pound signs these days one thing I've never understood is why they want too rape us on fuel Because we are so dependant on it. Easy money for them. TC aye I really need too buy me a horse again them fuckers were always easier Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,568 Posted March 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 f***ing better not iam enjoying see the litres digits go higher then the pound signs these days one thing I've never understood is why they want too rape us on fuel Because we are so dependant on it. Easy money for them. TC They are committed to reducing income tax, removing workers from the tax bracket, not increasing VAT, "green taxes" have been removed from energy bills etc etc etc........so they have to get the income from somewhere - and, in the fuel duty accelerator, they can exploit a captive market. The number of smokers and pub-goers have gone down, so who's next in the cross hairs ? They could even dress it up as an environmental protection measure - those pesky diesel drivers and their cheap fuel.......!! SO much scope to rip us off !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CushtyJook 1,097 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Scamming c**ts Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lab 10,979 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Just have to close the motorways then if they start taking the pish. Lorries and tractors will do the job lovely. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,568 Posted March 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Just have to close the motorways then if they start taking the pish. Lorries and tractors will do the job lovely. You're confusing is with the French, who would probably get up and actually do something ! Osborne knows the worst we will do is a tut and a roll of the eyes ! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,637 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Just have to close the motorways then if they start taking the pish. Lorries and tractors will do the job lovely. You're confusing is with the French, who would probably get up and actually do something ! Osborne knows the worst we will do is a tut and a roll of the eyes ! As much as I agree and am outraged by this move to increase duty, the fact is we are still running a deficit of around £70B. Before we can really condemn this increase in duty we need to offer an alternative solution! Osborne has been after raising duty for a few years now. the oil downturn has offered him the opportunity to do this without the taxpayer feeling too much of a pinch. Of course the duty wont be dropped again once the oil price recovers! But still the real issue remains, how do we find £70B a year to close the deficit? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,285 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Especially when it's got bigger under Osbornes stewardship !!........ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,637 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Especially when it's got bigger under Osbornes stewardship !!........ Has it? In 2010 when Osborne become Chancellor the deficit was £149B according to the June budget. The deficit for 2015 was £69B. From what I'm looking at it's steadily dropped year on year. As a percentage of GDP it's gone from 11% to less than 4%. I might be looking at bullshit figures or are you thinking of the National Debt? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Truther 1,579 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Just a thought, but why don't they tax big corporations as they should, that would bring a few quid in. Not very likely though when the people calling the shots own big corporations is it 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,637 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 By stopping all foreign aid and Voteing to get OUT the EU might be a start. Right, well they're the obvious ones and have got it down to something like £50B. That's ignoring any economic costs that those measures might have, which probably isn't worth speculating on for the purposes of this. What comes next are cuts to real services. Pensions, welfare, NHS, police, defence, education etc etc. Or alternatively we tax another area, the corporations and the rich are often a popular bunch to beat, until it becomes counter productive and negatively affects the economy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,285 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 (edited) As you know BH, they can make numbers say anything so mine, yours or both of our information may be flawed.....I think you will find that it is actually rising every week by 1.5 billion pounds ! Our deficit is 1.5 TRILLION pounds !! Edited March 8, 2016 by WILF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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