Government Fuel Duty ‘U-Turn’!

Well, I wouldn’t want to be a politician right now!

Across Europe we’ve got governments from one end of the spectrum to the other and I don’t think any of them are trying to increase government spending (and therefore borrowing). The problem with most European economies, and the UK economy, is that the Public and Private sectors are intrinsically linked; cutting public-spending hurts the private-sector too because the public-sector is the private-sector’s biggest customer.

Globalisation has damned us all to an extent; forget the ‘extra’ government from being in the EU because we’re all-in-it-together even if we weren’t in the EU. Our banks have lent to Greece, Spain and Ireland, we don’t want to lend any more to them so their borrowing-costs go up and the chances of them defaulting (and us loosing our money) go up. Vicious circle!

Still a ‘fuel-duty-hike’ is all the simple British newspaper reader understands…..so it is headline news! :rolleyes:

@Creaking Door

Indeed. Then there is all the non-sense about having a “plan for growth” which they seem to think is like some alternative to a plan for cuts. Sure, we could have a plan for growth [in the public sector] which avoids cuts, but then we’ll next much larger cuts in the future. If we want growth [in the private sector] then we need to cut the burden on the private sector, and that means cutting costs, either through cutting regulation (inc. leaving the EU regulations), and/or cutting the size of the tax bill through cutting what we spend through cutting the size of the public sector. Anything else is just smoke and mirrors and fancy accounting as far as I’m concerned.

When did any large part of the electorate ‘trust’ politicians? :rolleyes:

All that really matters is that they do the best (or better) job of running the country…

…the problem is they also have to try and remain popular while doing it…..impossible!

Meanwhile the electorate is screaming for ‘no cuts’ and ‘no fuel-duty hike’ (and not bothering to see the connection), fine, but we have to raise money from somewhere; we can’t keep borrowing!

This government aren’t “listening” they’re running scared, they have not realised that during their time out of office the internet and the proliferation of sites open to all, means that their policies can and will be questioned pretty quickly and unpopular policies will just as quickly get a bashing along with the proposer.

Tories can’t get their heads round the fact that their word is not treated with the regard and awe that they expect from the common herd.

Basically trust in politicians is pretty low and presently trust and belief in the present rag-bag virtually non-existent.

Support the government, and it’s a “change of mind”; support the opposition, and it’s a “U-turn,” and politicians wonder why they’re viewed with such contempt. Scoring points, in front of their accolytes, is more important than caring about the welfare of the voters.

It’s not a u-turn, they are just saying it is. That doesn’t make it the case.

The Labour party is a bit of a joke as it stands, they’re good at complaining, but they caused most of the problems, and they never propose any credible solutions.