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[Nickbat]

It seems like the anti-VED campaign is beginning to bear fruit...  

Headline story on bbc.co.uk:

"The government is coming under mounting pressure from hauliers and its own MPs to change its mind on measures that threaten to raise the cost of driving.

The Labour MPs say poorer motorists will suffer most from plans to increase road taxes on more polluting cars."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7420409.stm

The rises could yet get scrapped. Fingers crossed!  

[Vamps]

I have said this before, I don't think Jo public quite realised the implications, a U turn is on the way. don't tell everyone till I have updated my Mig.

[JiMbOb789]

I got my fingeres crossed

[Entwood]

Nice thought .. but don't hold your breath .....   :-/ :-/


(and being picky ... It's March 2001 that matters .... said he .. owning a Nov 2001 car ..  )

[Vamps]

For older cars, should have put that in my post.

[Growler]

A u turn may be on the cards but they will want to do it in a way that saves face.

[Nickbat]

Nice thought .. but don't hold your breath .....   :-/ :-/


(and being picky ... It's March 2001[/b] that matters .... said he .. owning a Nov 2001 car ..  )

Yep, you're right. Darned keyboard!!

[Vamps]

Nice thought .. but don't hold your breath .....   :-/ :-/


(and being picky ... It's March 2001[/b] that matters .... said he .. owning a Nov 2001 car ..  )

Yep, you're right. Darned keyboard!!

Yes, mines dyslexic as well

[Omegaani]

I certainly hope the idiots U-turn, but they are so separated from reality that they may not be capable.*

Luckily the Jan 2001 example I recently bought is very straight and shiny with just 45600 miles on the clock, so I won't feel like I'm running around in an old banger unnecessarily if they do change.


* Here's an amusing melding of current with historical:
Bunker mentality

[Vamps]

 

[Jay w]

sorry to sound like a damp squid but they will not relent on this one.....

There will be a lot of fuss made about it but they will stand their ground and we will be made to pay  

It will of course spell the end for Labour in goverment, however they cannot see this, they have beenin power for so long now that they feel there isn't any way joe publice will vote someone else in....

Rewind 20 years, Maggie tried the same trick with poll tax, look what happened there and look how that affected her and the conservatives, today we have council tax, it has been fettled slightly but it is still the same basic princilpe as the original brief.

if the government would not reinstate the 10p tax threshold there is zero chance of this being reversed

Sorry.........

[Kevin Wood]

I would be very surprised if they U-turn. For every motorist who would be appeased by that, there's a tree-hugger who'll be outraged. Net affect on Labour's popularity: NIL.

They'll probably introduce some means-tested gas guzzler benefit for these "poorer motorists" and thus make the system far more complicated and expensive to administer.

Kevin

[humbucker]

One Labour MP warned that the party also risked alienating "Mondeo man" - the name given in the past to middle-income voters Labour needs to woo if it wants to defeat the Conservatives.

Mondeo man!!  

[Nickbat]

From the BBC this morning:

...Business Secretary John Hutton told the BBC the chancellor was "listening to what people are saying about vehicle excise duty".

He must be hearing a lot of foul language!  

[Kevin Wood]

"Over a 10 year period...I think the direction we have been going in has been clear to people at the time," she said.

... they've gone from not introducing new road tax bands retrospectively to doing exactly that. What's clear there?

The election can't come soon enough. What a bunch of muppets.  

Kevin