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How can this be justified in our economic climate. People are being made redundant daily and if not made redundant being asked to take a pay cut.

Is Mr Brown going to take a pay cut!!!! I doubt it!

Mind you, he will be made redundant in the next election :-)

People who have not got enough money already due to job losses, increased prices in food, energy etc are being made to pay even more to the government and the fat cat oil companies who are making millions of dollars per second!

Come on Gordon, what about the average Brit, or have you forgotten us?

If you recall it was only when the fuel price rocketed through the roof that all this global economy problems surfaced. Although G Brown did not ask for this to happen he certainly does nothing to help the nation get back on track by imposing higher fuel taxes now or at any time.

Motorists are the easiest target, they know we need cars/trucks, therefore we need fuel and that means we are in the big fat greedy pocket of the Government.

If they could, and it didn't fall from the sky, I think they would charge for the water we drink.

I have almost had enough of this Government and the incompetent fools that run it.

I'm seriously considering leaving the country as it's run by a bunch of greedy clowns who are isolated from the needs and wants of the everyday citizen they are supposed to serve.

They put extra charges on the working population when they themselves receive second home allowances. SECOND HOME allowances for goodness sake.

This is all happening when we have workers being laid off due to the recession, leaving them unable to pay the mortgage on the one house they actually live in. All while the Government and the Banks give themselves bonuses for crippling our economy.

Leave fuel prices alone!!!! everyone is struggling at the moment one way or another. Thes best the the goverment could do is rasie the thurshold of Income tax to 10K before paying tax this will put more money into peoples pockets and eventally spend back into the system. Also look at the footballers and all mega stars who earn silly amounts of money and put them on a higher tax, afterall 100k a week, 400k month,over 20 milion a year, telling me that they can't afford to paymore its just dam right stupid.

We are told that oil prices are now lower but fuel prices have remained the same or even increased during the last few weeks. Now an increase in fuel duty.
Whatever next?

Another Labour con and for me and many like me a double whammy. Petrol prices UP in a recession and having saved all my working life for my retirement and Mr Brown and his ilk cocking up the economy income from my savings is now zilch

I wonder if Brown is deliberately letting this tax hike run until the 'eleventh hour' when he can announce a postponement and so get the maximum publicity. 'How great we are in helping the transport industry by not increasing the duty'.
Lies, lies and more lies....time we stood up against out politicians...but how ?

a rise in fuel duty at this time would be wholy injust particularly to those pensioners whose income has been slashed by interest rates brought down to nought; a gross breach of an undertaking, and a further indication of the currupt ineptitude of the current government.

At a time when councils will be increasing council tax to fund road repairs and the additional gritting expense incurred during the snow this year, they should be looking at the government for a slice of the fuel tax to help them out.

Yet again the motorists are being hit in the pocket from all angles..

Absolutely scandalous, the oil companies are raking in billions and yet this government is taxing the poor motorist again.

Mr Brown, make hay while the sun shines for you and your party's time in office is drawing to a close!

how in gods name can this be justified, this country is in such a state, all this will do is make it harder for all businesses & for the average road user, which is the last thing we need in the middle of a recession.

I can only assume that the extra money is being used to shore up all the rediculous policies that this government is trying to implement throwing money at banks ect, which is having no impact at all.

they need to try helping businesses not banks then a few more people may keep jobs

SHOCKING !!! - as if money isnt hard enough to keep a hold of.... now the price of fuel is increasing AGAIN..... the price of fuel per barrel is still low, why cant the fuel price be still at its lowest 94.9 (diesal) and 83.9 (petrol), surely this would help people to regain financial stability in there homes...NOT TAKE IT OUT THERE POCKETS !!!!

As for the clever idea of the drop in the vat %.....well thats was a complete waste of time... !!!

BROWN, SORT IT, OR CLEAR OFF !!!

Raising fuel duty when prices are relatively low, seems a good strategy. We all need a little persuasion to make more economical use of precious oil resources. It doesn't seem to be just the rich people that drive fast, one per car, in inefficient cars. Let's hope the major oil producers will keep some of the oil in the ground to benefit our grandchildren!

Gordon Brown has already caused the pension system untold damage, the duty on fuel will of course be added whatever we say, the man is determined to go down in history as the most unpopular chancellor & uncaring PM.
His promises are like pie crusts, made to be broken.

To be honest and blunt, it does not matter what we write or say about fuel tax hikes, because this or any other goverment in power will do what they want to do and ignore the general public's view on the issue.
The only way to get any goverments attention is to vote them out of power, but alas will the next lot be any better, probably not !

Gordon Browns insists that the current economic problems in the United Kingdom are GLOBAL problems and the solutions need to reached by GLOBAL financial agreements.

Gordon Brown can do something without Global agreement, and that is leave people with more disposable income and spending power to kick start the economy.

High car fuel duty, car tax, council tax and extortiant gas and electricity costs only lowers peoples disposable income.

These are United Kingdom issues which Mr Brown can address without GLOBAL agreement.

THIS COUNTRY NEEDS A HIGH PROFILE PUBLIC FIGURE TO LEAD THE SILENT MAJORITY IN PROTEST AGAINST THIS GOVERNMENT.

its about time the parasites in power were moved and some one in that will look after the less off instead of feeding the rich with even more money but where can we get some one bring maggy back to sort this mess out

Typical, I wasn't aware of this and I am sure I am not the only one. After the government has 'pledged' to help everyone as much as possible during this recession but 'allegedly' offering motrgage payers help and support to keep their homes, this little gem is pushed through. How are homeowners already struggling to pay a mortgage going to be able to pay more just to get to work to earn the money to keep on struggling paying all those bills.

No doubt everything else will go up in price to accommodate this fuel price hike as the consumer will always be the one to bear the brunt of any price increase.

Also, this will surely send more small companies already struggling to the wall. Without help to support their businesses, extra expense on fuel will impact a lot of small businesses.

A truly shambolic way to help get the economy get back on it's feet. This will just add to the costs for everyone - the only winner is the government.

On the flip side, this may help to reduce the £££££XXXXTrillion of debt this government has saddled us all with - (tongue firmly wedged in cheek ;-))

It's quite simple, Gordon Brown tells lies.
Of course, no-one welcomes having to pay more for something, especially in these lean times & even more especially when so much public money is being spent on mopping up after years of financial muppetry.

I'd love a bit more of what happened in Sept 2000. Bring it on :)

Why is anyone surprised? We've just bought three of the worlds largest banks and a building society, and we are still trying to save the world from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, fight global warming and keep the House of Commons bar fully stocked. How else can they pay for all this ****?

This government have lost sight of reality - possibly as a result of the too well stocked house of commons bar, possibly because of some secret nerve gas released in Westminster by the evil axis of terror or possibly because they are all a bunch of complete incompetents who failed as lawyers and local councillors.

Don't forget there will be an income tax rise announced soon to help pay for the vat reduction and pay for the banking bail out.

We do only have ourselves to blame though, we (as in the country not me I'd like to add) voted for them. And the only way to resolve the situation is to vote them out at the next election AND make sure you write to you local non-Labour candidates and tell them what you want - lower fuel duty, no stupid parking restrictions and Draconian parking fines, fewer speed cameras, cheaper gas and electricity, no increase in charges for beer either etc etc. AND then make sure you don't vote for Labour otherwise nothing will change.

We have just become Lemmings. We silently accept everything this government imposes on us. It's up to us to let them know we don't want to be treated like this. Remember they work for us NOT us for them.

Hands off our pay packets Brown.

I Wouldnt mind a raise in prices so much if we acctually got the petrol we pay for getting just 36p of petrol is pathetic for every pound we spend give with one hand and take with the other all goverments have been the same since goverments began and they will never change ,maybe when everyones on the dole because they cant afford to travel to work the goverment will introduce a dole tax too the robbing *******

Here we go again. The same pathetic sheeple complaining about the price of a gallon of petrol.

When are you all going to realise that fuel is CHEAP when compared to the price of the average cup of coffee or bottle of mineral water. How far can a litre of mineral water propel your car? How many cups of coffee can you buy for 87.9p?

When crude oil prices begin to accelerate because of the geological constraints on supply, what are you all going to do then?

It's time to wake up and smell the coffee (or should that be crude oil) folks!

Our fossil fuel dependent age is about to reach a peak.

It's time to conserve what is left of this precious black commodity.

Hopefully this unelected prime minister and his cronies will not form the next government

How much more can they possibly squeeze out of the poor motorist, i am fed up to the back teeth with funding this goverments muck ups and having them bleeding us dry. We havent got anymore to give.

The government has to find a way to fund the banks, so this is it!! Not only have I lost money on Bradford & Bingley shares, my partner has lost 1/3 of his pay due to the recession, now this. Still we're lucky at the moment, we both still have a job............. but how long for? Still if we don't have a job we won't have to pay out for fuel!!!

No suprises there! The price at the pump has been slowly rising in the last month or so but as said before, this tax will allow the retailers to put an extra 1 or 2 pence on the price as well as the tax and no- one will bat an eyelid.
The supermarkets have been very quiet of late.

Why Mr. Brown?

For crying out loud, the ecomonic down turn has affected us all terribly, the working class n new graduates are either made redundant or CAN'T get a job at all, our pound doesn't go that far as it did 2 years ago AND YET YOU STILL WANT TO SQUEEZE MORE FROM US???

What else would you like? We know YOU can get it easily....VERY easily and yet you don't seem to take us into account. You may well have lost one vater.

i dont think there's much we can do about because this goverment cannot be trusted they've proved this so many times in the past i hope the lorry drivers blockade 10 downing st and make them stop this mental gov before it ruins this country there's as much trust in this unelected p.m as there is in the rbs

Anyone noticed the increasing number of foreign registered trucks on the roads? Less work for our haulage industry and no duty at all for our government, so they have to get the money from somewhere and it's us who will suffer. Broken promises are irrelevant, they're all as guilty and having 'borrowed' several billions recently, they have to claw it back somehow however slowly and painful that may be to us who are such easy targets to fleece. Apart from mass rioting, we have no choice I'm afraid.

My pay never goes up in line with fuel increases but my food and other bills surely do i suppose the MP's etc will just claim more on there expenses.
Perhaps a fair way would be to scrap road tax and put your insurance on the car windscreen like they do in IRELAND at least those who do more miles pay more.

Brown should not only be held to account - he should also be removed from office for being the most prolific liar ever both as Chancellor and Prime Minister

I think it is an absolute disgrace that the government can even think of putting more tax on the public, considering the mess the countrys in. They are ensuring labour will not be in power for a very long time after the next General election

Absolutely disgraceful - but other than make comments on sites like this how can we make our voices heard. We don't shout loud enough! Can the press actually make an issue of this? Hope somebody can.

The reduction in VAT did not help the small business community on flat rate VAT at all, in fact it cost us money.
Yet again as a motorist who has to drive all over the country for business operating a consultancy operation it will be impossible to claw money back from my customers so I will have to absorb this and any other increases via my company.
Hardly surprising that the unemployment figures are reaching astronomic proportions. I believe that for a government which has been at the helm for 12 years the situation we all find ourselves in is appalling Mr Brown and his Government should go and go NOW!!

It's nice to see that whilst the bankers get help and a big pay off. Normal people get screwed at the pumps.... Want to get more money in the system, then reduce fuel tax and dont charge vat on it either. Most people drive so more money in pocket to spend... rather than give it to overpaid people who caused this problem in the first place!

Our PM is obviously not achieving his aim of destroying Britain fast enough. Is he hell bent on bringing everything to a halt?
The motorist is seen as an easy target, as many of us, my wife & I included, have to rely on a car in order to get to work to earn money, so that we can then pay our taxes, shop, so we can pay our VAT & sometimes even enjoy ourselves!

Do we live in a democracy? I sometimes wonder.

I am in favour of fuel duty rises to preserve what energy sources are left in the world and also encourage less road driving