18.03.09 Duty rise set to bring fuel tax to 71% in 2 weeks

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Has the Budget been postponed to push through a fuel duty rise unchallenged?

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.

Watch Brown pledge to freeze fuel duty. (1.40m - 2.02m)

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% - a move which angered UK hauliers who are able to claim fuel VAT back, but not fuel duty.

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.

The Treasury have said that the only time further changes to fuel duty can take place are at the next Budget � which has been postponed from March until April 22nd, after the duty rise comes in.

Do you think the Budget has been postponed to push through a duty rise unchallenged? Do you think it's fair that 71% of the cost of a litre of fuel goes directly to the Treasury? Should Brown be held to account for breaking his promise not to raise fuel duty? Leave a comment below and let us know your thoughts.

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Motorists - the mugs that keep the economy moving, even when they can't because of traffic jams, roadworks etc etc............

Posted by Ian And Janet Bundle, 18th March 2009 5:56pm

As a retired person (through ill health) who did not pay enough NI stamps in one year (1992) I do not get anything from the government until recently when my condition worsened and I was awarded Disability Living Allowance and was able to get a car to help me get around through Motability. I am not in a position to be able to afford all these price increases the car in Cornwall is really an essential not a luxury if these rises increase as they have been I will not be able to afford even this vehicle, it really is getting ridiculous we, the motorists, are constantly being hit for more and more money. I think you will find that when vat first came out it was added to the existing price of fuels which already carried the old purchase tax and as an element we are still paying a tax which was scrapped many years ago (Purchase Tax) on fuels today!!! Get it sorted Gordon Brown and the rest of you politicians!!

Posted by Alan Manzie, 18th March 2009 5:56pm

Is it really worth voting for any politician these days? Whatever we do they seem never to keep their word on any subject, and if, as usual, it costs the taxpayer dearly, politicians pay very little. They can keep their expensive houses cars and whatever else all at our expense.

Posted by Mike Wernham, 18th March 2009 5:56pm

"or even banking bailouts."

in this case definately bank bailouts!!! they got to be able to pay those nice fat bonuses and pensions off somehow!!

Posted by Jon Matthews, 18th March 2009 5:57pm

Why am I not surprised? Gordon Brown has brought nothing but broken promises to his leadership. I've noticed that fuel went up by approx 10p a litre last week anyway and the press are strangely quiet on all this. Why aren't they making the fuss that they normally do?

I feel as if I'm taxed up to the eyeballs now and still he keeps bringing it on. As a petsitter, I have to drive between jobs and parks. He'll price me out of business soon. And I know there'll be no apology....

Posted by Ann Cooper, 18th March 2009 5:57pm

how else is brown going to pay for his c@k ups?

Posted by Roy Bamford, 18th March 2009 5:57pm

As a working widowed pensioner with no public transport available to my home and everything going up but my income, the news that fuel tax is going to increase is a real blow. I am already walking to work to try and save costs and such added expenses will definitely impact on my quality of life.

Posted by Judith Ashworth, 18th March 2009 5:57pm

Brenda don't be too upset the extra money Brown will receive from his fuel duty increase will be going to a very good casue which is to help the bankers or should the word bankers be spelt with a w instead of a b. What a world we now live in. For the majority of us in this once fine country of our it's Third World Status Here We Come

Posted by Steve Pitts, 18th March 2009 5:57pm

Just one more nail in the coffin from Brown, who from the day that he sold our nation's gold at a rediculously low price lost my vote.

Posted by John Campbell, 18th March 2009 5:57pm

Well the economy is doing so badly we, the rich motorists, will have to bail the Government out again, and again.
Perhaps we could get everyone including all MPs to use public transport. Ah silly me. MPs would have to claim for all sorts of assistants to help them book tickets, carry their cases and all the other necessities and we the poor idiots who live where there is no public transport will be even further out of pocket than we are now. Or maybe we could make half the House of Commons, including their staff, redundant. Now there would be a massive saving.
Just pipe dreaming.

Posted by Naizby Noble, 18th March 2009 5:57pm

Are the Government mad, the cost of fuel is what helped to push the World Economy into depression. Businesses are now struggling with lower income streams and lower profits, the cost of Diesel for deliveries could push many under and create more jobless. Stop the madness now and leave duty alone. Why does the motorist have to constantly bail this Government out with fines and taxes. Our roads are now in third world condition and we are paying through the nose for them. I am getting angry and so are a lot of motorists, treat us with contempt at your peril Mr Brown

Posted by Paul English, 18th March 2009 5:58pm

Got to pay the unemployed with something hasn't he!
Got to pay for another chunk of our money to go into the blasted banks! Let them fail! That's whats happened to hundreds of other businesses-
As an almost pensioner (2.5 years to go) I have already finished work and now I may have to consider working again-if I can get a job because Labour is eating up my pension in stealth taxation- It wont be long before my savings have gone.
Why won't he go to the Country and let us throw him out properly-we did not vote him in and sure as heck its his fault the country is in a mess.
Fuel tax should be lowered not raised-we are now suffering because the Pound is not performing properly and is down against every currency in the World.

Grumpy old man I may be- But Mr Brown (the kilt) knows why.

Posted by Geoff Spearpoint, 18th March 2009 5:58pm

Diesel is the biggest rip off around already with petrol in a close second. The fuel companies have capitalised out of the crude prices but the government just keep adding to the extreme p-take they call "duty".

We have to stop them taking the p out of us all and learn to spend money wisely thereby reducing the need to tax heavily!

Posted by Neil Hoskins, 18th March 2009 5:58pm

Why should we be surprised they voted them self a large rise while pegging wages, this has been the most self serving government ever and really do not care about it's their citizens.

Posted by Peter Tucker, 18th March 2009 5:59pm

Is this government absolutely brainless don't they understand that the people hurt most by this escalator are those who can least afford it,like people who have no,or limtited access to public transport,country livers,isolated communities etc.Members of parliament who agree to this increase can claim on their exes no doubt.Hopefully Brown will use a bit of common and kibosh it.

Posted by Gil Higham, 18th March 2009 5:59pm

Another con by a con Government. of course the budget has been delayed until after this increase which show Mr Brown for the liar he is

Posted by Mike Pepper, 18th March 2009 5:59pm

I think the time has come

For THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

March on Parliament Destroy the Robbers

Animal Farm here we come

Posted by Graham Bacon, 18th March 2009 5:59pm

This government will fall not only because of the lies they tell us, I am nearing retirement and will then depend a lot more on my car to go out and do all of the things that you can't do whilst in full time employment. They will fall because of Pensioner Power.

Posted by Robin Dean, 18th March 2009 5:59pm

In today's desperate climate & gloom if the Labour Government do go ahead with this planned increase in tax it will prove they have no heart and interest in the plight of the British people & motorists.

Posted by Michael Gardiner, 18th March 2009 5:59pm

'Oh to be a Canadian' Posted by Vernon Fewtrell, 18th March 2009 5:49pm. makes a good point, if massive immigration has contributed so much to this country, why keep increasing duty and taxes.... and dont start me on the Bankers !!!!

Posted by John Dexter, 18th March 2009 5:59pm

Did someone say recession? 2 million unemployed? Redundancies left right and centre and barely enough cash to get by as it is... let's sneak out the bad news while no-one's looking, eh Gordon?

Posted by Ric Dunn, 18th March 2009 6:00pm

It's the same old story, the Government knows it has us by the short and curlys and that we have no choice to pay.

Taxation on Tobacco, Alcohol and Fuel is all supposed to be in the name of making consumers quit and find alternatives that are better for our health and the environment.

I bet they would absolutely pack themselves if we did stop doing all of these things and the revenue stream stopped.......what would they charge us to do then!

Posted by Nigel Wolstenholme, 18th March 2009 6:00pm

The reduction in VAT was a complete waste of time, half the retailers have not passed this on to their customers anyway so they have made a profit from this. What a stupid idea this was. How is this going to help anyone who is struggling to make ends meet?
The rise in fuel duty is just an easy way of the government making even more money to bail out banks and pay chief execs of the bailed out banks pensions!
Tax the average working person - thats all they do
I don't know why we British people just put up with this all the time, if they did this in America the people would go mad and protest!!
We need to stop paying people benefits etc who have not paid into our system, those who are able to work and have been claiming benefits for years and years, stop their benefits and watch them soon get jobs. Stop the ever increasing immigration into this Country, our public services cannot cope as it is let alone having to pay for interpreters etc. There are not enough jobs now for British people let alone immigrants and why are they allowed to claim benefit for their children back home that do not even live in Britain, this is completely nuts!! I just cannot believe it. I cannot even read a newspaper or watch the news any more it just makes me sick! Im going to emmigrate to a country with a government that looks after the people that work hard and pay their taxes not the lazy people that do not contribute anything!!!

Posted by M Smith, 18th March 2009 6:00pm

Once again were fed total tosh by gov and once again its drivers that suffer what a surprise ha ha with unemployment as it is most people have graeter distances to travel to be able to work and wages like they are make it hard no wonder the economy is spiraling down vat dropped to 15% so why cant they drop fuel duty as well not put it up

Posted by Mike Hawkins, 18th March 2009 6:00pm

Has anyone told "Prime Minister" Gordon Brown that we have a credit crunch right now? Is the idea of this increase to fund Sir Fred Goodwin's pension and "leaving present"?

Posted by Michael Allsop, 18th March 2009 6:00pm

Yet again the average person in the street is made to suffer. Oil companies won't bring down the price of fuel because they know we will keep paying and now in a recession the goverment turn the screw even more to help bale them out, it's just not on.

Posted by Andy Wilson, 18th March 2009 6:01pm

typical goverment

Posted by Norman, 18th March 2009 6:01pm

Why don't the government reduce the diesel prices and increase the petrol prices where the haulage would be cheaper, prices in the shops would be cheaper even the cars with petrol would gain some from the goods the buy. We would all be winners.
Put this statement to the government, I did but did not get anywhere, you might!

Posted by Peter Cutforth, 18th March 2009 6:02pm

sooner this bunch of con men go the better, they are killing this country

Posted by Chris Bending, 18th March 2009 6:02pm

Its not just the duty what goes up don't forget to add that little bit of extra VAT too....Double Wammy

Posted by Keith Lloyd, 18th March 2009 6:02pm

Given the current climate, what on earth has possessed the man to do this? The answer is greed!

Posted by J Halliday, 18th March 2009 6:03pm

once again the motorist shoulders the brunt of the need for government funds (stealth taxes and the like!). And once again, no doubt, we'll all sit at the keyboard and moan about it, but do very little because 'we're British'
perhaps if we were French, there would be riots, protests in the street against the Government - but not us 'we're British'!!
this country just gets me down - i'm running a business, bearly able to survive and the bills just keep going up - where is it going to end - bancruptcy?
it's all hot air - there's no help at all - except for the Fat Bankers (yes, I said Bankers.......) and Government officials - no pay freeze there i see!!
Disgusting..........

Posted by Tony Worrad, 18th March 2009 6:03pm

What did you expect from a lying Scottish one eyed idiot. He'll be gone next year. Guaranteed!!

Posted by Jon Wright, 18th March 2009 6:03pm

This Government is a disgrace. Broken promise after broken promise from Minister after Minister, and yet again Gordon Brown thinks he is saving the world! Is it not time that the we, as a nation, recognise this Government for what it is - disastrously incompetent - and takes steps to dismiss them from Office?

Posted by David Lord, 18th March 2009 6:03pm

yet again the motorist gets hit and brown takes no notce.
no one even voted him in

Posted by Ian, 18th March 2009 6:03pm

If this was France, cars would be burning in the streets! We need to band together and boycott the pumps - a few days of this would soon send a message!

Posted by Teresa James, 18th March 2009 6:03pm

yet another tax on the public, how much longer do we have to keep on suffering ever increasing taxes.

Posted by Steve , 18th March 2009 6:04pm

Does anyone remember the Tory plan "THE FUEL ESCALATER" this was when conservatives were in power, not that long ago. People do have short memories.

Their plan was to raise duty by 5% above inflation, a litre of fuel would cost a lot more than it would now; so it's not just this government, they are all the same.

Posted by T Johnstone, 18th March 2009 6:04pm

I run a voluntary animal sanctuary and as well as taking in unwanteds I also care for animals of people in hospital. All of this requires a considerable amount of driving around, e.g. yesterday over 50 miles. The whole thing survives (just) on donations and after that out of my own pocket. I don't mind this one bit but its a bit tough when I have to spend a big part of the budget on petrol. I love what I do but it would be nice not to have to continually worry about these extra costs. And what is a few pence to the likes of those imposing these additional charges can be quite a lot to anyone on a limited income. Did they ever live in the real world do you suppose?

Posted by Pat Clements, 18th March 2009 6:04pm

Since this is an untargeted tax hike to bail out ....what ?....Why not be politically savvy and have the nous to direct it towards tax-efficient transport research.......like eco-lorries or some other brain-storming approach to personal transport in the grotesquely near future ?

Posted by Jeffrey Clive Malim, 18th March 2009 6:04pm

The duty rise is a mind bending stupidity. We need the fundamental cost of doing things to go DOWN not up. This sort of increase will help to sustain the recession but then that is what this government can't or won't see. We also need the cost of diesel to come down as this is held artificially high by the tax system and again pushes up the fundamental cost of everything. Just can't believe government cares about prolonging the recession .

Posted by John Goodale, 18th March 2009 6:05pm

I take it that when VAT is increased he will remove the extra 2p per litre he made us pay to fill the vat gap. If onle we could find some way of everybody boycotting fuel these cretins would be on their knees in a week

Posted by Kevin O'neill, 18th March 2009 6:05pm

There doing a great job... of destroying what's left of the economy

Posted by Matthew Wright, 18th March 2009 6:05pm

It is typical of this government that they use an underhand trick to avoid discussion on the rise in fuel duty.
It is outrageous that in this recession, at a time when the public are struggling to manage with reduced incomes, loss of jobs and future uncertainty, that we should be required to pay yet more into the treasury coffers.

Posted by Chris Humphreys, 18th March 2009 6:06pm

Fortunately I barely use any petrol since I lost my job before Christmas. I now enjoy my fortnightly cycle to the job centre. So I'm spending a lot less, doing more exercise, and eating less. Happy days, thanks Gordo!

PS PLEASE can we have an election now?

Posted by June Dobbs, 18th March 2009 6:06pm

Is it now true that the PM only has 2 faults....you know the ones I mean.

Posted by John Wright, 18th March 2009 6:06pm

As Peter Cawdell posted. This government is a disgrace. The sooner that Brown and his cronies go to the polls the better. Goodbye labour government!!!!. Every time the motorist is penalised. Where did all the additional income from duty and Vat go when the pump price went to OVER £1.30 per litre last year? Now however, as prices over the last few days have started to fall by a couple of pence, possibly Brown considers that the motoring public will not notice the increase?

Posted by Chris, 18th March 2009 6:06pm

ANOTHER 2p. Tax is getting out of hand always told to get diesel car now got one and every thing says no to diesel even fifth gear did comparison and thay say petrol. Bet that knackers the selling on price as if cars arn't worth much as it is now.what are we surposed to do WALK. not practical.

Posted by K Chell, 18th March 2009 6:07pm

Hi,
When you keep making so many mistakes there has to be a whipping boy to cover them up.
When you have spent so much of other peoples money there has to be a way to try to cover up.
Fuel duty is the cash cow that incompetents can always rely on.

This is just one more thing we should really be starting to expect.

Posted by Duncan Tee, 18th March 2009 6:07pm

I am sick to the teeth with Mr Brown and his gang who run this country with very little thought for the ordinary people struggling with every day expences.

More and more taxation is all they can think about, but then every Labour government in my 71 years life has left office in disgrace. BUT, we are not hearing of any alternative thinking from Mr Cameron and his team!

Posted by Dennis Mulliner, 18th March 2009 6:07pm

Once again the government is going back on it's word. I wouldn't mind so much if the money went back to motoring, but it isn't. As a worker in the road haulage sector, this could be the final nail in the cofin of some of our hauliers already struggling due to the work downturn. I don't think the Prime Minister would like a further rise in unemployment to deal with !

Posted by Steven Crozier, 18th March 2009 6:07pm

Have some sympathy for old Gordon & his cronies - they have to feather their nests before it blows out of the tree. What a better way then have good old right wing tendancies of looking after those with the capital funds so that when they are booted out they can earn their fortune as consultants. Us in the meantime will be looking forward to being able eat cake for some time yet - wouldn't mind if it was just the crusts of the bread I had. Mind you that sparked of a little unrest in France a few years back didn't it

Posted by Chris Mason, 18th March 2009 6:07pm

why don't we do as the north americans do. spend a few days walking to work cycling get lifts do not use the car it works when the fuel duty and the profits stop coming in the price in the pumps come down rather quickly.

Posted by James Moore, 18th March 2009 6:08pm

i think its ridiculous the amount of fuel duty thats put on petrol and diesel,but there doesn't seem to be any action taken by fuel protesters and hauliers,this country just lies down and takes it on the chin,not like france and spain who protest at anything,if nothing is done the government will eventually tax us all off the road,and horses will be back on the road,unless they tax the oats as well

Posted by Freddie Budd, 18th March 2009 6:08pm

I agree with all the comments ref the fuel tax and the government etc, but I do around 30k a year doing my job and I think garages charge what they like - I've seen a difference of 7p a litre for petrol in various garages within a 5 mile radius of each other - wots that about ?

(No 61) Watford Phil - Get off your bike and get a life in the real world!

Posted by Sean Slevin, 18th March 2009 6:08pm

have they forgotten there's a credit crunch going on.it's totally disgusting when people,myself included,are losing their jobs, and facing financal hardships.this government is losing the plot!it should be doing all it can to reduce all prices, not just motoring.to help people through this very difficult period.

Posted by Graham Chadwick, 18th March 2009 6:08pm

Hi
I'm not in the least suprised that the government have put another stealth tax on the ordinary people, as many have pointed out, how can they help the banks out with billions of pounds but can not help the very people that keep the country afloat........
ALSO am I the only one to notice that the petrol price at the pump is slowly creeping up in price, Gordons way of keeping things under the radar.....

Posted by Paul Hesketh, 18th March 2009 6:09pm

What we have is not democracy.

We need a system where we have some say in what the government can do.
The power of veto perhaps.

Posted by Tim Mylward, 18th March 2009 6:09pm

I cannot understand why the government help the banks who are the cause of this problem then help them by our tax money. Then they come and tax us more to cover this. Is this fair? Instead of paying all this money to the banks they should have paid it to the people to sort out thier problems, not to those who caused it.

Posted by Hussam, 18th March 2009 6:09pm

Brown and his policies must go and hopefully he is digging his own grave!

Posted by David Cole, 18th March 2009 6:09pm

RIP off Britain strikes again !!!!

Posted by Michael Davis, 18th March 2009 6:09pm

Well, It doesn't surprise me. I've noticed that the petrol has been creeping up anyway, and to be honest, I don't beleive a word Gordon Brown says anymore.
Hasn't he noticed that there is a recession going on? Mind you, it won't effect him, he won't no what recession is with what he gets paid. I feel sorry for the self employed who need their vans for work and pay their own petrol and spend so many £'s a week. Is he trying to put them out of business?
It's about time he kept his promises and kept the petrol down.

Posted by R Outhwaite, 18th March 2009 6:09pm

Yea he spoke thus with forked tongue and the untrueths spewed as vomit from his mouth. How much longer are the people of this country going to lay down and meekly accept, yet again, the lies upon lies that are spewed out from this government. Did our fathers and grandfathers give their lives for this. Are our sons, husbands and brothers fighting in that God forsaken country, Afganistan, putting their lives on the line, for a government that deals in lies and false promises. Sending them out without proper essentials and God willing, they make it home again, to what? A government that seems hell bent on ruining the country and taking down the very people that it was formed to protect and support.

Posted by Mike Cooksey, 18th March 2009 6:09pm

Another nail in the coffin of the man in the street. This government is the least democratic one we have ever had. Broken promises, issues forced through without proper thought and consultation.
I have a dream that one day government will work for the people who put them there to do so instead of getting elected and then pushing us all around. The arrogance of the labour party is nothing short of outrageous. Oh and while we're at it, lets not forget all the wasted years when we could have been investing in sustainable fuel systems instead of hastily hoping for poisonous nuclear power plants to get us out of the sh*t.
B*gger off Gordon.

Posted by Mike Stryk, 18th March 2009 6:10pm

Fat cats get richer yet again, no doubt using the credit crunch to justify the price increase. Well I am a person who lives in the sticks, is in need of a vehicle due to my ailments and will yet again become a prisoner in my own home.

Cheers fat cats. Let the little people pick up your greed tab.

Pity the government can't look into their affairs as they have had to do with the banks. No doubt someone is getting a pretty wedge in bonuses or over inflated pension for thinking up this latest unjustified hike in price. When are the government going to look after those who need and deserve to be looked after, you know, the general public who vote them into office.

Sick of it. Do something, this kind of greed is going to drive this country further down than it is already.

Posted by Michelle Hope, 18th March 2009 6:10pm

Yet again I'm ashamed to be Scots!! With these two clowns running this government, I'm not surprised that the motorist is the subject of yet another tax rise. Perhaps, in light of Browns' promise about 1 year free of increases pressure should be put on the media to report this in full and show that this government and the PM in particular can't be trusted!!

Posted by Alistair Liddle, 18th March 2009 6:10pm

Chris Collins and Shaun Butler-good ideas. I believe that we should increase the threshold on income tax for everyone, and in return increase fuel tax and/or congestion charges, and scrap VED. Pay for insurance per mile so you only drive if you have to. Give kickstart revenue and capital support to PT schemes and cycle facilities-the Dutch, Germans and Danes have it about right.

To summarise, less tax on hard work and 'goods', more tax on 'bads' that you can choose not to pay by behaviour change.

Posted by Matt Barker, 18th March 2009 6:11pm

Wow. Putting tax up at this time. That is gonna hurt the government, no wonder they aren't announcing it.

Posted by Dave Marek, 18th March 2009 6:11pm

Time to give Gordon Brown and the rest of his pals their P45s,All they have done since 1997 is tax ,tax,tax,waste all the money,and sell the British people out to Brussels.TIME TO GO MR BROWN

Posted by David Grayson, 18th March 2009 6:11pm

Excellent news! More tax: just what we need. Can please tax the smell of freshly cut lawns too, it's an excellent opportunity to broaden the existing tax regime - and about the only left the beggars have yet to get round to.

Posted by Jonathan Huntley, 18th March 2009 6:11pm

As another who is over pension age (I am still working to try not to use our repidly depleeted value savings) I can now look forward to only being able to sit at home wrapped in layers of bedding in future winters as now I won't be able to afford heating nor afford to use my car to go visiting and sharing the heat of public spaces and friends & family!

Posted by Carole Wilton, 18th March 2009 6:11pm

we are all stuffed as now days if you have a low paid job and a family and unlucky enough to travel 17 miles each way to work,
benefits pay equal or more after tax than working as this happened to a close friend of ours now has time to be a father and a husband instead of a slave to a job and tax paye

all the tax rise will do is make more follow as the people get made redundant will see stop as the new income stream as a better deal

and then we have the fat cat clowns who do not see the pain of the hard up working class suffering and company' s struggling to pay staff wages never mind pay any thing to them selfs

most of can not afford to leave this country and will die old never getting ahead in life in great Britain just poor and poorer

Posted by G Hughes, 18th March 2009 6:11pm

These tactics by the Government are disgraceful. Like many others I am struggling to maintain my job and to do so I have drive an average of 35,000 miles a year to and from work. I can barely afford this level of expenditure and of course cannot afford to live in the Great and Powerful Metropolis called London, where over paid (expenses) and over cosseted politicians rake in vast amounts of tax payers money to lead opulent lives supposedly looking after us poor b...t..ds! How the hell is the average working man supposed to survive when constantly battered with ever increasing back door taxes?

Posted by Mike Mcdermott, 18th March 2009 6:12pm

Its time Gorden brown stepped down as leader of this country as he is the worst leader that we have had .

Posted by John Redden , 18th March 2009 6:12pm

Disgusted of Bookham

They have no ears or heart

Posted by William Penman, 18th March 2009 6:12pm

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