fuel tax gordon

[capel679]

i heard with interest that gordon has had to borow heavily and will not do anything prior to election but you can bet as soon as, if , he is elected then watch out.
previous goverments have had to borrow on a large scale and then repay by taxing you and me.
he will be desperate to claw back from anything.
this is not intended to be a political jibe just a worried boater.
oh, and by the way. i think we are still bettter off with the present lot.

[Andrew_Fanner]

Don't reelect them. Over the next few months the Conservatives will make promises and be wanting to make them. Exploit this.

I'm deeply worried about the prosepect of another Blair/Brown (and then Brown) government. If Brown has got his sums that wrong, given his addiction to taxes, we are all in a hole as he will scrape for revenue foprm anywhere. Hello £100 pa SSR, £85 identity card (+£15 marine endorsement), crewing ticket, helming ticket, navigation ticket and skippering ticket (all @ £200 pa each, boaters are wealthy) plus qualification charge and so forth.

Only, I fear, slightly doom mongering. After all, unless we are tracked and watched we might bring in bad people, you know, not Labour voters...

[mirabriani]

Agree, Gordon is a master tax collecter
In addition to your suggestions he will surely consider
how to tax the increase in property prices occuring
in certain areas.
I just heard a "factoid" on the radio, in 1998
he paid £130 for a haircut! unbelievable!

Merry Christmas Briani