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No change then............... usual load of lies from idiot BROWN

Why, Oh Why, after all the mess do some MPs with any common sense not see the light and raise a vote of no confidence in the government to get them out as soon as possible so we can at least start the repairs to the economy which has debts of over £17,000 for every adult and child in the UK and this debt is not only ours, it is also our children's and grandchildren's debt. All when Brown started with a zero balance of payments dept. It has to be paid back, with interest and a weak pound. What is the ulterior motive - join the EU, adopt the euro and remove the last bits of control the British people have in deciding their own affairs and future. Someone said he was a good chancellor? Any accountant or economist with half brain will tell you that we are a lot worse off now than we have ever been. I am not surprised Brown has gone back on his word regarding fuel tax. He signed Britain over to the EU without giving us a vote which was promised and was an election manifesto, so tax on fuel is small fry to him.

Did any sensible motorist really believe that this Government would not stealthily raise the duty, particularly if it thought that our attention would be focused elsewhere. Failures in policy all over the shop will ensure that this Government will continue to cheat those who pay most!!

I agree that the "full year" should mean 12 months from when it was said but Gordon Brown is the biggest liar of a Prime minister we have ever had - so who can trust anything he says.

Anyway, regardless of this, he should have the common sense to see that continuing with the fuel duty rise and the VAT increase (plus whatever he might add in the forthcoming budget) is going to do little to ease food prices (nmuch of which is transportation costs) or to put more money in our pockets to help the economy to recover.

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, regardless of common sense and the will of the people, will continue to tax, tax, tax.

Please let the General Election come sooner than later so we can get a decent government.

Diesel is taxed so much in this country because everyone was switching over to it when it was cheap. Now that a lot of diesel cars have been sold the public are now held to ransom for buying a cheaper to run car.

No matter who runs this country they will hammer the British motorist. Remember it was the Tory government that introduced the 2p a litre tax. Every time tax was raised on fuel, i.e. 1p added to the cost, and then it was automatically raised to 3p at the pumps. If it went up 2p then it was 4p at the pumps. This is why the fuel costs so much nowadays. The Labour government eventually scrapped this tax but have still managed to get the cost of it sky high.

What gets me is that before the fuel price rises the average diesel price was around 80p and at the end of it we were paying around £1.28 per litre. The cost of crude is now a lot cheaper than before the rises, yet the average price is 97p a litre. Now why isn't everyone screaming over this? In fact the cost of Diesel should back around the 45-50p a litre mark as it is cheaper than before the Gulf War!

Governments adding tax to fuel will always happen as we are sitting ducks. It's like death, it's a certainty.

Every business park is on the outskirts of somewhere. No town centre companies anymore so of course you need a car as these new parks are impossible to get to via public transport. I can't get a bus to where I work 40 miles away (which used to be a 12 mile journey until the government handed out incentives to companies to move to deprived areas to boost the local economy so my journey distance rocketed over night) and to get a train would take over 4 hours because there is no direct route and I still wouldn't get into work before 10:30am!

So what am I? A sitting duck needing a car to earn a crust so of course I'm being taxed to the hilt on fuel as I need to buy it. I'm an easy target.

Unfortunately, no matter what you say or do nothing will change any government when it comes to taxation.

This country is going to grind to a halt. Another tax rise can only hasten the demise of many companies and raise the unemployment levels further.

This tax increase will do nothing but harm to an already crippled British industry. Undoubtedly more smaller businesses will go into liquidation and the price of food and othetr basic commodities will increase again.

This is just typical of the Governement handling its finances badly again. Why not decrease the aid that we provide other other countries and reduce subsidies in other non essential areas. A further rise in fuel tax may well prove to be catastrophic.

Its so sad to see the rise in fuel tax again, at a time when the credit crunch is hitting so many businesses and individuals. Onlty today, record jobless totals highlight the burden everyone is under, whilst having to cope with increased prices in everything from food to fuel.
It is time the government stopped kicking people when they are already down.
What is needed is more encouragement to develop alternatives to fossil fuel for transport, or would that spoil the budget's relance on tax revenue from these fuels. They need to recognise now that it won't be around much longer.
Why not add more tax on to their own pay instead!!

It's nothing less than can be expected from an unscrupulous Labour government I hope the middle class vote that put them there are happy that they have put in place a party that can break promises with no regard for the general electorate. I'm sick of this government who are unable to provide a straight forward honest answer to questions put to them, who claim that the financial irregularities of their members are 'genuine' mistakes when all other parties are sleaze, funny how they are genuine mistakes when they are found out, how many more go unnoticed?

Brown's broken another promise ? Surely not ? . People - understand clearly that when this disgraceful Labour Administration bailed out all the incompetent buffoons in the Financial Industry 'last month', then the coffers have to be filled to actually pay for that, 'next month.'

Thats where the 'commoners' like you and I come on. And the 'commoner motorist' is one of the easiest to hit in the pocket, as are the poor blokes trying to make a very modest living in the haulage business.

If I broke promises ( i.e. LIED ) at my work, I'd get the boot.
Time for a radical change people, and I dont mean the 'Mirror-Labour Party & Cameron'. We're long overdue a wide-reaching shake up in how this Pathetic mess of a Country is run. Brown, you.. your idiot predecessor and your colleagues and cronies are a total joke.
Get out, and don't bother to look back - you'll not be missed, Liar.

gordon brown and this government should not be trusted they are irresponsible and shpuld not be allowed to try and run this country, i say to try because thats what they are doing trying, and thats what they are very trying, absolute thieves of the highest calibre, take, take, take, lie, lie, lie.

I am appalled at this government even thinking of raising taxes . I suppose they need this revenue to help prop up the banking system.

I am having trouble believing anything this Government says about fuel duty. All you hear are statements that are later retracted or clarified to mean the reverse. They always finish by assuring the public that they feel our pain

Now, instead of hauliers taking the vanguard in fuel protests and risking prosecution from state influenced police on any spurious misdemeanor,why not arrrange a national and periodical NO FUEL PURCHASE DAY in protest against the ongoing bleeding of the motorist and Haulier alike. This could be arranged thriough the webs various blog sites.I feel this may have a bigger impact and raise the profile without the usual few sticking their necks on the line for the many who reap the benefit.

Just imagine,EVERY filling stations forecourt empty for 24hrs.

How long would it take for them to FEEL OUR PAIN??

We are in a recession, that means that everything should be getting cheaper, not going up in price!

How do they get away with it. What other item carries a 70% tax burden. It's an absolute disgrace.

Since "NEW LOBOUR" came to power they have taxed us beyond belief so why should they change now the only way to stop this DAYLIGHT ROBBERY is to vote them out at the next General Election

I do not believe a word this Prime Minister (or his Government) says - if he said his name was Gordon Brown I would have to think about it! I new that the price drop at the pumps would not last long but I think the Big Guns like BP, who are making billions, could help us all out.

Why are people shocked at this? Haven't we seen how this Government and treasury lapdogs run this country to the ground. Maybe the Government will ban Pensioners and the Low paid from having cars, they may as well, it's becoming too Taxing to own a car for some. Please don't say use Public transport, that's a dead end.

Does he ever keep his promises on anything. Petrol prices have been going up over the last few weeks, and yet you do not hear of oil prices going up.
No the poor old driver is being hit once again. It would not be so bad if the money raised from petrol and the road fund license was used to give us better roads. I am utterly disgusted with the way Mr. Brown treats the people in the land.

Just another example of the balls up of government and how they consider motorists the easily bail out for their mistakes.

Give us a break please!

so when will the motorist ever get any good news with the goverment.

At a time when the country can least afford it the Brown the Burglar strikes once again. This man and his cronies are a disgrace to the country. Bring on the next election!

And yet again the idiot PM decides that the motorists should pay for all his mistakes. Why do they make us such an easy target.

In the long run this will help immigration at least, who the hell is gonna wanna come here to get robbed at every chance, the Govt is now an official joke

Once again the government displays it's misunderstanding of a very simple procedure; the more money it costs hauliers to get products into stores, the more money the stores charge people for the products.

By raising fuel duty AGAIN, the government demonstrates it's reluctance to help people out of the global recession. I have recently been made redundant and the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of that ignorant man who was never elected to power, Gordon Brown. Both himself and his band of merry idiots should visit planet earth from time to time and then take a walk along Britains streets.

I'm sick of being looked at as an open wallet just because im a motorist. Brown and that other dithering imbecile, Alistair Darling, need to look at other ways to generate money and if they can't find it perhaps they might consider spending the money they do have a little more wisely. Like the rest of us have to.

Roll on the next election, while it may be a case of ' Meet the new boss, same as the old boss ', i don't care. I just want to see Labour gone gone GONE.

With the electricity and gas companies still charging very high prices for their supplies and now we have the latest rises in council tax and water rates, which will add about another £15.00 per month to my living costs from next month, how does Gordon Brown expect pensioners to manage who do need to use a car due to poor bus services.

We are now getting smaller amounts of interest on our savings, due to all the banking problems, so I will not be able to afford to use my car as much as before.

The sooner we have a general election the better, as it can not get worse !

This is lunacy and a completely unfair tax rise when so many are facing hardship.

I'm affraid Brown has destroyed this country by incompetance and lies, assume this extra duty is to pay the conmen bankers, no wonder we're a laughing stock to the rest of the world................................

Yes, we all know not to believe words that spew from a politicians mouth and this is a case in point and it ain't no surprise now is it.
What really riles me is that we, as the British public will moan until the cows come home but we will then accept it and pay it. Our nearest neighbours, the French would not do this. No, instead they would probably burn all the politicians in the streets and would not put their matches away until their government backed down and stopped ripping them off.

So, isn't it about time we English dug our fliipin' heels in about this? Pass me the Swan Vestas...

We are being hit in the pocket in two ways again. First the fuel prices went up last year and so did consumers goods to meet it. Then it went down after Christmas slightly but consumer goods didn't go down as much. NOW they are going to raise the fuel costs again. So I suppose this means consumer goods will go up EVEN MORE? What a fiddle! We are being stung on all sides...

at a time when people are already finding their wallets stretched this is just too much. Already the prices are creaping slowly back up to £1.01 where I live... come on give us a break somewhere.

Not many companies will give even basic cost of living salary increases this year... so purses are going to be stretched tighter and tighter.... the government should keep their word and not increase

As an accountant, I am continually amazed at the government's poor budgeting and dubious prioritising. Again the tax payer is being penalised for the government's lack of basic financial management skills.

We're not supposed to be sponsoring the rescue package for all those poor banks, are we? Whatever title you think up for it, a fuel price increase hits everyone who travels.

I think it's ridiculous that fuel should go up again. In this day of the credit crunch, the Prime Minister should be helping us, not taking more from us.

He has broken his promise twice and I think that is cause for a complete lack of trust in him.

I am only just making ends meet and a vehicle is essential to me. I will have to cut back on something else, like food for instance, so that I can be mobile.

Shame on you Gordon Brown

With this PM all promises are there to be broken. As long as he gets it published he thinks we will forget it. We are not fish who forget in seconds.
We will never forget. Especially fuel hikes
Why is diesel so much dearer than petrol. It never used to be . It must be cheaper to refine........ Roll on the General Election.

You ask us to vote on whether the Budget has been postponed for petrol-rise reasons. I have voted "Yes". But that is only one of the reasons for the postponement. Our masters in Westminster have been advocating all sorts of panic-measures now that the capitalist system has let us down (again!).

The upping of fuel prices will allow the big boys to put up their prices to us, the consumers, and blame their increased profits on the extra tax on fuel. We are already being conditioned, by a governing party which once had Socialist members, to get into borrow cash to get out of debt. Whatever next? We must protest as loudly as possible - before the right to protest is taken from us.

To Shaun Butler, number 55 - to improve an impoverished country you provide economical transport and communication and things start building from there. To impoverish a country you tax transport and hinder communication so people cannot afford to go to the jobs to which they are most suited and instead they take more menial low paid jobs close to home which they are not suited for and which causes dissatisfaction and stress for them and others around them because they are not happy.

I think it is disgusting. People out of work, can't afford a house or pay the mortgage and can't even afford to live in the car!!!
I would like to see all MPs live on £100 a week and see how they fare.