Further fuel protests planned...

its all fucking bullshit i recon like, we have enough money as a country to get rid of world poverty and its us who have to pay the £5/month to help

i know we have to earn money as a country and our country is good in alot of ways but still if the wages dont go up y should the prices and taxes i get paid £1700 gross a month and they take off me almost £600 its unreal they got so mant fucking taxes they forget about half of them and we get ripped

u think when the Queen dies and leaves all her money to charles of whoever they will take 40% off him fuk will they

if they did it would pay for everyones petrol for the next 20years

i don't have a problem with the tax i pay on my wages - it's a necessary evil - i hate the stealth taxes on essentials that they KNOW we as consumers buy - i.e. 80% on petrol, the same on cigs and booze

I would question whether these three are essentials though. Food, clothing, energy etc are, but not petrol, cigs and booze.

hhmm... yeah, luxuries would have been a better word!

agreed look at somwhere like switzerland they have a higher standard of living than us and they have (not on evrything ) much higher taxes than we do !

However they have moved there wage scale up to at least alow people to live comfortably .

Higher taxes are needed but we have to look at a compromise on wages as well . part of the reason the minimum wage was introduced was so taxes could increase so why not move it up again !

fuel prices are piss taken...my fathers wagon does 4mpg,so at £5 a time,all them miles day in day out,its not cheap..

those who dont agree havent got a clue,some people need to use roads to survive,we all cant be crustie hippys who basical know fuck all about real live

would you moan if your local dealer started charging you VAT?..and added a bit on every month..u would soon be also pissed off

exactly who was that directed at ?

non protesting person,or persons

exacto. our taxes arent exactly being but to best use at the mo. but its a shite sight better than some countries.

any fool who says everyone in american is better off is a fucking gimmel.

they arnt better off,most of america is just a 3rd world country......thou some live in kookoo land in plastic houses

So is Sunderland

petrol in this country is a fucking rip off, as are fags and booze. any trip to the continent will tell you this. the whole of europe is also facing an oil shortage but you don't see the french, italians or spanish paying a £1 a litre, the goverment has been looking for excuses to hike up the price of fuel since the last gen elec. and now they have something... even though it's been going up 1-2p a month anyway.
one thing that does piss me off is that many other euro countries pay they're road tax within the price of thier petrol, and its still cheaper than ours... wtf is that all about!!
we have the second or third highest taxes in europe, behind norway and someone else i think, and anyone who thinks this goes to the nhs and so forth can think again, our nhs is shite, and standards are constantly falling, fair enough its probs better than america and most third world countries but compared to most of the eu, were a fucking laughing stock! question is... were do all the taxes go???

p.s am a taxi driver and am gutted with rising petrol prices!

if you cant afford the petrol in your car, get a more fuel economical car.

ive just tanked up the impreza and it cost me £45, was strange seeing the litres go up the same speed as the cost.

will be knocking of early tonight to go and do sum donuts down silverlink

if they do protests, i will either get the metro in to work, or take the fuel out the scooby and ride the minimoto into work

sketchy-so this will obviously push up taxi fares.,,

think im gonna ask me gaffer for a rise then, prices are just rushing past us :evil:

you'd think!! but no... at the moment taxi are fares are remaining static.. will take quite a bit more for them to go up! that why am a bit gutted!! planned taxi protest in the north east on the way though. should be next wednesday! but you know what taxi drivers are like.... lazy twats!!!

this is well overdue, the last protests where at about the 90p mark this is a piss take

The thing is, we're British. We just accept this sort of thing.

I'm amazed USSR patriot hasn't wrote a 2000 word reply on this, he thinks petrol should be a hell of a lot more expensive.

I remember once he proclaimed that inheritance tax should be 100%

Anyway, i digress...

Every system here is better than the Americans, taxation does obviously work to good effect. It's nice to know that if you get injured, you will get proper care and it wont cost you £10k....operations etc etc, all come from tax.

But, those who claim that all taxes go to good use is horse shit, I wonder how much is going on Iraq operations etc etc

Putting up petrol at this rate is an absolute disgrace though, and the government will probably get away with it. People can cause major disruption, but in the long run it wont solve anything, petrol will still go up.

I think if it was say dropped and frozen at 80p a litre, while thats still damn expensive, it would make a massive difference to peoples attitudes and they would still make a horendous amount of money from tax.

filled me car up 2day just incase like