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Come on Prime Minister do you have no Shame it only seems like Yesterday that you made a Promise (18th July 2008) that you would not RAISE FUEL DUTY for the next year. Do you honestly beleive that as we are getting older we would soon forget your PROMISE sorry did you say promise.
Not only did we get the December raise we are once again looking for a broken Promise come April Fools Day have you still no shame.
The pensioners will once again get on our backs because as you are aware any raise in fuel duty will affect the House Holder by larger Price Rises.
Is it not Time that you gave up the job you are not capable of doing to the satisfaction of the electorate.

Hi, Mr Brown has to recover the billions he has proped the banks up with over the past few months. Yet again the tax payer has to stump up for the goverments incompetence, allowing the banks to get in to this situation in the first place.

'Here we go again' My suggestion for the Governments Theme Song, no sooner are we enlightened tha prices for fuel are being reduced, and they make sure with ALL tha advertising that we don't miss the message.........
big deal...thank you Mr Brown. Com on folks - all together......'Here we Go Again'.......whats up ?? FUEL PRICES ARE ON THE UP AGAIN.
The only thing that matters is............ I bet Mr Brown and his sidekicks do not PAY for thier fuel, I bet they have a little plastic card issued by the powers that be so that they can slip in for as much fuel as they need and whats the betting THEY ALWAYS FILL THE TANK TO MAXIMUM each time. after all they are holding a prestige position and this will be classed as 'necessary expenses ' . They are very very fortunate.

Well I'm afraid whatever hapens to the price of fuel I, as a full time carer for the past 14years that continues on and on, have to accept because I need my car to do a 10 mile round trip 365 days of the year to fulfill my careing duty since that devastating brain embolism struck my sweet wife down. Politicions should ease off on and consider special cases. We carers save them 1000000's as we struggle in silence and alone!

Once again the people in power who have freebies and expenses at our cost do not care about the the cost of living for ordinary families.

This country and it's British people need to grow a bloody back bone and stop playing possom..... We get shafted at every turn and are happy to complain all day but excpect everyone else to do something about it, if we are that bothered then we should be using "people power" to get our voices heard, every immigrant/ethnic minority comes into this country and shouts and screams to get what they want-and get their way, high time we stood up for ourselves. All this nonsense moaning has got to stop and something be done. Why don't we try and get one of the largest motoring organisations to encourage all their members to boycott a different garage each month and force them to lower their cost by not using them, if they cant get their massive profits each year they will not be long MAKING the gov't reduce taxes...Taxes are artificialy high because they get away with keeping them so high!!!!
BACK BONE REQUIRED PEOPLE.
I need to drive for a living and i try to do it as efficiently as possible so public transport is not an option, besides i wouldn't pay to stand on a bus/train beside some drunk toe-rag and be late for every appointment.

Just my two pence worth..........

What else could you expect from this incompetent government

For goodness sake. How much does this government expect us to put up with? Lies, broken promises, ever-increasing burdens of tax and duty. You will pay for this at the elections.

OUT OUT OUT!!! GET THEM OUT!!!

This government need to be kicked out now.

We can't sit around waiting for more lies and thieving ....They didn't put up with it when Maggie tried the 'poll tax'. We need to get out on the streets.

Vote in the UKIP to see this country sorted out in a sensible way that suits the British people and not the Eurocrats, the Browns and all the other thieving b----ds.

Hi All

It is awful that they can do this to us. I wish there was a way we could get are own back on Gordon Brown and all his so called ministers. He better put the price on his Whiskey this time cause he kept it low for so long. Im on motability and it was good when the prices came right down cause I use to get a full week on £10 now Im lucky if i get 4 - 5 days. I dont go that far it is mostly to get my food shopping as I cant go to far.

More tax rises to feed to the banking system!!!

another hit on the pocket of the tax payer just trying to get on with life through these hard times.

Is this the way any government listens to the people?..I can assure this government they(Labour) will not be in power after the next election..R Naish

pretty grim highess prices in urope but tony not the best bloke to pull us out who can tho probly he be out this next time but others may make it worst i dont no answer i no him in usa keeping low not saying a deaL let have a vote to stop moterway again over fuel

Brown you are a disgrace to this country! More still you are a lier and a cheat!

I had forgot about this tax, which i imagine most people have. The goverment should not be aloud to get away with it, it is alway'a Tax Tax Tax the motorist.

Well it's all very well putting up the fuel tax, but where does it end? How much tax can he put on fuel before it's too much to pay? How can he go back on his word? Because like all politicians, they lie, cheat the benefits system for them selves and probably earn too much for trivial things like tax on fuel to affect their quality of living.
Has he not realised that this may be a vicious circle. Surely Mr Brown must have noticed some level of drop in revenue from those that are driving more economically or not using their vehicles (for those that can reduce usage).
I know I certainly have, and can make fuel gains of at least 10% - hence 10% less tax paid! I personally would prefer he scrap the Car Tax completely and charge this on fuel and then the system is totally fair. I only do around 5k miles a year but still have to pay £185 tax because I run a 9-year-old car.
I could go on but I won't!

Its hard to see which to tackle first the thieves from the oil companies who race prices up & then sit back & rake in excess profits when oil is as at the moment dirt cheap. If we were french we would be burning some british lamb or driving tractors to the docks at 5mph whilst the police stood back & encouraged us. The only trouble is that H M Opposition are just as much a set of toerags as the present government.

"Increasing fuel prices would solve one problem by creating another".

It is known that drivers are being encouraged to ditch the car and use the train but rail ticket prices are too expensive.

I give up i thought they had hung Richard Turpin apparently i cannot use the first name that he was known by.

This on the day when its announced that Unemployment Passes Two Million.......

I am not at all surprised that my long held opinion about politicians in general is,yet again, being reinforced- namely that calling someone a politician is just a euphemism for a liar.

Once again the Government have lied to and cheated the people of GB, as a War Pensioner I have to pay for my own Perscriptions, Dental and Glasses, a fact not known by many, so Gordon Browns promises mean nothing.
He will be remembered as the worst PM behind Phoney Blair and the worst Chancellor of all time, having lost 80% of our gold reserve in one weekend.
Funny though how they can still manage to give money away, our money!

another nail in the coffin for the gov. yet again the motorists pay the shortfall and are penalised with tax after tax..

I am so fed up of all this fuel costs in the uk, why cant they just have it same as all other countrys, why is it always the uk who pay the most. i have already had to give up my new car a settle for a older car, i went from petrol to diesel and diesel still costs more and yet its ment to be more better for the so called global warming. i really do hope that all drivers do another m25 and london blockage. its ok for the mp's who earn so much money they dont ever notice it, were as people like you and me notice it big time, my fuel bills have doubled in the last 3 years, in another 3 years will it have trebbled ?? but our wages stay the same, even our council tax goes up and yet here we all are doing there work by recyling everything into its propper bags or bins etc and yet we still pay the same money, our coverment stinks, we got a credit crunch and we still get news like this that fuel is to go up.

this country wont change unless we all act on this and it a big way.

what if we decide not to vote on the nexr election

The government and the oil companies just see the motorist as a cash cow to be milked. Oil is at a low price but the price at the pump is still very high and the government are going to push it even higher. They need to money to try to mend a MASSIVE hole in the public accounts and this government see us as passive enough to let them do it. This is just another example of how little this so called labour government cares so little for anyone but the very wealthy and big business. Roll on the next election.

I really don't want to seem defeatist, but frankly I don't see anywhere we can turn on this one: Talk about a Catch 22!
Brown is haemorrhaging tax income from every pore! If he doesn't get enough tax in he can't pay for all the government controlled sectors, so he raises tax a bit on fuel. This puts more companies out of business so he looses more income and corporation tax thus has to look elsewhere. He uses the budget to put more tax on cigarettes, booze (and even chocolate!) whilst saying how frugal he is being able to freeze fuel duty again for the second year running (sic), hoping no-one had noticed the last one in via the back door. So more unemployed claim jobseekers. This incurs costs for the JCP, who are funded by government, so he needs to raise tax elsewhere. By the time we get here, everyone is so fed up about not being able to get drunk whilst munching on a 500g of Cadburys best, they may not notice another 0.9p going on a litre of fuel. This puts more companies out of.....(Hang on. Haven't we been here before?)

I also see another issue popping its ugly head out....
The current opposition are almost certainly going to get in next time and taking over a bankrupt country isn't something that any sane person would look forward to! How long do you think it would be before someone on the other side of the house suggests that they start putting up fuel duty?

G Brown our unelected PM doe's not know what a promise is, becuse he lives in a world of his own, doe's not to pay for anything he needs as it all comes out of our pockets.

71 Pence tax and duty in the pound for fuel for going to work, taking my children to school/college, for delivering essestial supplies! etc etc Does Mister Brown think we put fuel in our vehicles just to drive around for fun thus making it a luxury? What world does this man live in? Oh! yes of course he is a public servant. with a free, paid for by taxpayers, chauffer driven car!

HOW FAR ARE THESE STUPID PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE RUNNING THIS COUNTRY PREPARED TO PUSH THE MOTORIST, MAYBE WE SHOULD BE MORE LIKE THE FRENCH AND WALK OUT UNTIL THIS TAX IS TAKEN OFF.

Hi,

When o when will this goverment realise that there is not a never ending pot of money to bail them out after there disaturious handling of the bank fisaco

There is no honor to politics these days! there is no shame just look after their image and how long they can hold their government! They messed up they need more money after they failed to bank for moments like this and instead of apologizing they are predending to be our saviours. why do we accept this situation we should be on the streets protesting!

Once again the Government are letting us down. Fuel prices should not rise because of extra duty in a period of recession. It affects us all as individuals as well as businesses and that extends on to consumers, the utilities etc.

Sadly the alternative Government of smiling Old Etonians de-Nationalised the public utilities and destroyed the railways so where on earth do we turn?

Maybe the Liberal Democrats - I like Mr Cable but not Mr Clegg!!

Surely someone could do better. Wonder what Sir Fred Godwin would want to represent us - he usually manages to get a very good deal!!!

Malcolm Vasey

Havent we paid enough this last year? Gordon Brown promised to freeze prices for a whole year, so what is his promise worth now? So is this going to help the recession when the knock-on effect will be to raise all the other prices around as well as that of the diesel in my tank. I already drive the minimum number of miles i can, so if this is designed to make people 'greener' please note its pocket testing me and all other poor and ecologically aware people, and will not have the desired effect. When is it all going to end? I speak as an extremely disillusioned labour voter. I have agreed with many of Mr Brown's actions, and support him against all the people trying to blame him for the world-wide crisis. This further kick in the teeth is how he rewards me!

well what do you expect from a goverment that lies and cheats it way through life.
they look afterthemselves and do not really care about the man in the street

Why am I not surprised? I'm afraid it's what I have come to expect. I live in a rural area where private vehicles are almost obligatory so this latest rise is another pain in the butt!

It's not long since the price of oil per barrel was$150 and I was paying £1.19 per litre of diesel.
Present price of barrel of oil is around $50 ie one third of earlier price. I'm now paying 97.9p per litre. Overall approx one third reduction in oil price but only approx one sixth reduction in pump prices.
What about a windfall tax on oil companies which would end the need to put additional tax on fuel.
This government seems to be standing idly by why oil companies make massive profits. Similar situation to what has been happening with the banks.

Simply great I don't think. America think they have it bad with fuel prices. Enough is enough. I'VE HAD TO RETIRE DUE TO AN ACCIDENT AT WORK, AND NOW HAVE TO WATCH THE PNNIES EVEN MORE CLOSELY THAN I DID BEFORE.