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It's not a weird argument at all. If they were that sensitive to prices, they'd have abandoned their cars weeks ago and wouldn't be going out of the house in the middle of the evening to save 27p a gallon In their heads they need a car to go about their everyday lives, they'll buy the fuel because they need to, they'll do it at the cheapest price they can The need for the car is greater than the hassle of living without it. They are getting fuel tonight because of that, price sensitivity comes into it but nowhere near as much as you seem to think it does

It is demonstably wrong. Have a look out of the window for proof Petrol stations have people queuing at the pumps right now because the price dropped 6p. They aren't going to change their habits with anything other than utterly punitive fuel taxes for a problem that will be on the way out in five years tops Most cities apart from that there overpriced infrequent service London, do not have the public transport infrastructure to cope with people abandoning their cars, Cheap (relatively) electric cars will be available in five years, they will be cheaper than their petrol equivalents and widely available The reliance on fossil fuels for personal transportation will be gone in a relatively short time Meanwhile all those bloody big boats will be sailing around the world causing more pollution than cars as they do right now

DOn't we already have that (or much of it)?

Range is already not really a problem, if range were a problem we wouldn't have a fleet owner completely changing he fleet of over 300 vehicles to electric, paying for every driver with the help of grants to have a charging point at home and having a waiting list months long for drivers wanting to change

And every game will be jumpers for goalposts. I might actually watch that

Not really at all The alternative to fossil fuel driven vehicles needs to be cheaper As is being proved right now, increasing the price of the fuel does not curb usage (by very much) Reducing the price of electric vehicles is what will drive the change. From the reports I've been reading recently, we are only a few more years away from this being the reality. Electric cars are becoming more commonplace by the day and the tipping point where they become cheaper than Petroleum driven vehicles is almost approaching Our largest fleet provider to drivers is aiming to be all electric by the middle of next year and she's half way there already. She actually has a waiting list of drivers who are prepared to pay the premium she's charging for an electric vehicle (and that was the case before the current rises) It's the driving platform price that will dictate the switch not fuel prices

Oh another prediction... It will be 2.25% to start with which will replace the 1.25% NI and 1% IC they will have taken away and it will again cost more to implement and run the three taxes than the new tax brings in just after we've got the money back in for the previous changes to NI

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If you actually believe that... I'll make two predictions 1) It won't last only a year 2) At some point, a government agency in the future will determine that the change in April combined with the threshold increase in July will have cost the taxpayer more money to implement than it raised in the tax year starting on April 4th 2022. The exchequer and the British public would both have been better off if he'd done absolutely nothing

Yes they are traditionally the party of lying too

This is because the Tory Party are traditionally the party of high taxation

I genuinely suspect that just like myself, your missus is always right

I vote Southampton, it's a cultural desert, I've never found the city remotely interesting in any way If they could build a wall around it and not let anyone in or out, it wouldn't negatively impact anyone's lives

So by 2024 we'll be at roughly the same level of taxation that we're at now except we'll pay more NI and less IT But in the meantime... exchequer takes more and more and more

Not when you take into account the rise already announced for April (1.25%) still takes place and the cut in the threshold is only effective from July.

What he should have done was announce a temporary reduction in the VAT on fuel to say 12.5% to be reviewed until the price hits a certain threshold (say £1:40 as a guesstimate) at which point it would be reviewed

Every time you buy a litre of Petrol you pay the government 58p in Fuel Duty plus 20% VAT You don't need to be a maths genius to work out that a 5p cut in fuel duty is not stopping the gvt raking it in over the high prices At £1:20 per litre the Government was earning 78p At £1:80 per Litre the government is earning 88p Even with a 5p cut at current prices the exchequer is 5p better off per litre than it was

Fear that Ukraine might regain what is rightfully Ukraine's Essentially Putin wants to use the people of Crimea as a human shield because he figures Ukraine will not attack with all the civilians there. It shows that his reason for attacking Crimea in the first place wasn't to protect Russians as he's quite happy to use them as a defence

I have this! (plus the lounge one too)

See Andy Burhnam said the same the other day The pragmatist in me wondered how much of our imported good are transported by P&O. Turns out its around 15% which might give a hint as to why it'll never happen. Andy Burhnam possibly meant it. Government ministers probably mean the opposite. Both of them are still grandstanding Personally, I don't see how it can happen without creating shortages (I'm not condoning what P&O did btw, far from it)

Why would you want to lift the gypsy curse? (which was why Barry Fry was supposedly doing it iirc)

Probably because Barry Fry hasn’t pissed on the corner flags recently

Mazepin fingers more like, considering the o is next to the p on the keyboard

Are they Hawaiian now?