May close to lifting fuel duty freeze to help meet NHS promises
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The government is close to lifting its eight-year long freeze on to raise billions of pounds to help meet pressure from cabinet ministers to boost public spending while also continuing to reduce the deficit.
An inflation-linked increase would raise £800m extra for Treasury coffers next year – and billions more over subsequent years – to help pay for Theresa May’s promise to spend an additional £20bn on the National Health Service by 2023, a pledge which the prime minister had said would .
Senior government sources told the Guardian that the plan to scrap the freeze, which chancellor Philip Hammond has continued since taking over at the Treasury, was “under serious consideration” as it would ease pressure on the public finances, with a number of ministers lobbying for funding for their own departments since the news of the NHS boost.
Ministers are also understood to be considering lifting the freeze on alcohol duty – which covers beer, wine, cider and spirits – announced in last autumn’s budget and costing the Treasury more than £200m a year.
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Last month, former government transport advisor Professor David Begg claimed that freezing duty had reduced fuel prices by 13%, resulting in a 4% increase in traffic that had triggered 4.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
The main rate of fuel duty was cut by 1p in the 2011 budget to 57.95 pence per litre and has been frozen at this rate. VAT is also paid on fuel at 20%.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/02/freeze-on-fuel-duty-may-be-lifted-to-help-meet-nhs-promises
or they could just stop giving tax breaks to corporations and the super rich
But then how could the rich get richer?
If they have to raise the fuel duty, I'd rather see it hit diesel the hardest. Diesel actually impacts people's health significantly, and costs the NHS money.
For the love of god stop shilling Elon for once in your life. Break the Conditioning!
Apparently advocating for the electrification of transport is now "shilling for Elon" somehow.
Not every electric car is a Tesla you know, the Nissan leaf isn't to bad of a car from what I've heard from owners.
I have a Nissan Leaf and it's an amazing car. The new one has issues rapid charging and I would avoid it out of principal though. The ioniq, Zoe, Kona, i3, and i-Pace are all good non-Tesla EVs.
Wait but I thought we were getting infinite money from leaving the EU, are you telling me I was lied to and Brexit somehow isn't working out as planned?
It's £27,235 minimum for a new one. The Nissan Juke is £14,935 new, so a difference of £12,300.
Even taking insurance and servicing into account, you'd have to do a lot of miles for a lot of years for that to break even: 10,000 miles a years = £1,453 in fuel for the Juke, servicing £500 annually, insurance let's say £500, Tax £140 annually = yearly cost £2,593 so break even around 4.7 years. That's just as you're just coming to the end of your battery warranty on the Leaf with a replacement cost of £5,000.
My commute would suit an electric car well, and the future is surely going to move to electric vehicles, but they're still well outside my level of affordability.
Jesus Christ it was a fucking Joke, Calm your Tits. Did the "Break the Conditioning" not give that away.
No, it sounded like some sort of tagline anti-electric cronies would parrot.
£27k is pretty high even for a top spec leaf. You can get a tekna for around £24k. Checkout the Hyundai Kona electric coming out soon as well.
It's legitimately impossible to tell these days.
And I could get a perfectly serviceable used Honda Civic for a grand
Sorry but you have to realize this sounds exactly like "I was just pretending to be retarded"
He's not wrong though. Shilling electric vehicles is a type of shilling I'm all for.
You can get a Leaf around 5 years old or so for around 8 grand.
Could there possibly be a more conspicuous way of hammering home to the ignorant majority that the 'Brexit dividend' so talked about in the news last month was disrespectful lies?
Just fuck off. They get enough fucking tax from us already. We have one of the highest fucking tax rates. Just actually fucking use it and stop lining your own damn pockets. Cunts in our government.
the issue starts with your broken culture that supports your government
the same applies to my own here in the US
You're still fucking over the people that own diesel cars and don't have the money to swap to a better alternative. Things are bad dnough as is.
Fuck off May you dried up whore, you're content to stick your claws into the pockets of the public but somehow have millions to waste on some unionist relic party that legit parallels with the parasites in the GOP.
The only real way around that is to have a scrappage scheme for diesel cars, which probably won't happen under this government.
If the government first recommends buying diesels and then does a 180 on policy later, they should have some sort of reparations system.
I agree that a diesel scrappage scheme would be good, and helpful in getting them off the road quickly. I don't think that the Tories will do it though, and will simply use the lack of one for political gain, simply pointing the finger at labour for encouraging them despite knowing the risks.
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