A last word on this thread: I see reported today that the Chancellor is reputedly considering not enforcing the 3p rise per litre on petrol/diesel which was apparently planned for later this year. I should bloody-well hope so, having been paying £1.55 a litre for diesel in the Hebrides earlier this year.
At risk of repeating myself, the motorist is burdened with an unfair proportion of tax since he is subsidising the central tax "pot", from which non-motorists are spared, and this hits those who live in the country and are obliged to use their cars, hardest.
Long ago, I worked in the Cabinet Office and, very occasionally, I had cause to use Government armoured Jaguars, which weighed about 2 1/2 tons and, in London traffic, probably did very much less than 10 mpg. But Ministers who use these vehicles at no personal cost, sit in their comfortable London environment and impose crippling extra taxes on the poor unfortunate people who live in the country.
Motoring is not a crime. It is a necessity for many people and the Government should surely recognise it in terms of taxation ...
Tony.
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