I thought it was the traders putting the price up, not the companies?
Always good to blame bankers/traders.
Ok then, you all want the moon on a stick eh
Right, one question for you all.
Who the feck is going to pay for it?
Answers on a postcard please to No11 Downing St.
The PM is paid circa 140k-150k odd irrc, or there abouts, considering his hours of work (all of them lol), stress attached to the job (look at gorden) and of course the ultimate person responsible for 60+ million people its not what i would call overpaid lol.But what does the PM spend when in office? 70k is the wage, what about the free house, no bills for elec, gas, no travel costs, prob no council tax, no food bills.
No, not cancel it, too bloody late now. I don't think we should of ever of been put forward for it.
Saying that, the current government has scrapped other area's that were fully paid for to save money.
I would LOVE the olympics to be scrapped, except theres probably so many planners/managers/strategy consultants etc etc that it would end up costing more to get them to cancel it
I vote for an end to ALL benefits/tax credits, for everyone. Replace it with food stamps so nobody starves to death and call it a day.
There is no way they could even contemplate scrapping it, my god the country would be a laughing stock and the costs to bin it would likely outweigh the cost to host it
Yes we shouldnt be doing it anyway but the decision was made a long long time ago, balls set in motion and a lot of water under the bridge has passed since then.
As for cutting all benefits - good luck getting the electorate to vote for that
Nice idea and all that but....
Which has been static at 17.5% for most of that, then gone up by 2.5%
If people bothered to actually research into it, rather than just getting all of their infor from newspaper headlines, they'd see the price rises aren't proportionate to duty/tax. That's the point I'm trying to make.
As Johnny said, I was referring to commodity traders (amongst others).
We are paying for it though.
You've yet to outline an alternative and better solution to effectively slashing 5/6p off fuel duty.
Re:2012, if anything it's provided jobs, construction contracts and investment in places that otherwise might not have got the funds, sure it's cost a lot but it isn't all negative IMO.
I really can't see how people can complain about a cut in fuel duty. Just shows how much of a battle the government is facing!
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