all of 1p cut in fuel duty , what a big help that will be do the motorist

 

Well that's a step in the right direction and a bit of a surprise actually

It may not be much, but they are obviously listening at last!

 

Wont stop it rising again, but yes, something at least...

 

4.54p per gallon will save me 60p per tank!

TX.

 

Nice typo Agree though. Giving first time buyers more money to spend just keeps house prices inflated. Looked at as a subsidy to the construction industry makes more sense so long as the first time buyers are buying new.

 

Its bullsh1t!

Drop by 1p a litre, increase of 4p a litre next year
Yeah, they're really listening


Another issue.
When they lowered VAT by 2.5%, didn't they increase duty by 2.5% to compensate?
Question then - when the rotten b@stards raised vat back by 2.5%, did they reduce the 2.5% duty?

 

? No raises (from them at least) for the rest of the governments term...

 

That's what I understand too.
All paid for by a £2billion fuel compant tax.
Why not make it £10billion and give us a decent reduction!

 

Because if they did the fuel companies would have to raise their prices so ultimately you would pay anyway.

Chip

 

Right
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12829433

 

Which no doubt the oil companies will do anyway to compensate for the raise in their tax.

Swings and roundabouts anyone?


Sod it, anyone want to buy my scoob, i'm going to ride my wife to work.

 

Ha ha lol.

Australia did the same thing with first time buyers and it just helped promote a housing bubble.

Of course the cynic in me says that is what the government want...or at least wants to keep the tail end of this bubble inflated and the low interest rates is in league with that aim.

If you think about it, then it's outrageous that the government is using tax money to pay for the investments of private citizens. It's a disgrace....huge government overreach.

 

Rubbish.

Have you seen how much profit (excluding BP for obvious reasons) they have made in the last 12 months? The price of their product has gone up way more than it costs them to produce.

 

it is the same process as bailing out the banks with tax payer money though

 

Why all the help for first time buyers? What about the other people who had no choice but to pay the going rate for their properties and are now in negitive equity and can't move? All this does is to get more people into the same situation where they actually own less!

 

Stop whinging and be glad you're on the ladder?

 

It's all some posters ever do on here

 

I have just bought a property yes. But as I will be here for a good ten years at least (bought as our first family home with room to expand) , I don't really care what happens with house prices.

Friends bought their propery 4 years ago at the height of the boom and are now stuck, even though they must be on £70k between them.

Then again, I suppose they didn't 'have' to get a £20k loan for their wedding!

 

oooo, you nasty bugger!

 

 

That wasnt directed at you Chris by the way, It just squeezes my nips when people bang on about not being able to upgrade their house when others are now having considerable more difficulty purchasing their first compared to 'X' amount of years ago.

I still rent with my wife, we're still saving for a deposit, but have decided to carry on saving for another 5-10 years to get the best first house we can in that time with as small a mortgage as possible.

 

Fuel duty escalator axed for the rest of this parliament. Anything to try and look good!!!

When they came into power, the avarage UK petrol price were 121.5 ppl. Since then it has gone up to UK avarage of 132.9 ppl. And they go and knock off only 1 ppl!

 

And surely you realise this has nothing to do with the government. The price of oil has rocketed. Just like it did under the Labour government when fuel was just as expensive a couple of years ago.

Labour had a 5p rise planned for April as mentioned in his report

1p was totally unexpected and better than a kick in the teeth, so credit to them

 

Fair enough mate. Good luck to you. We looked at it the other way. It was going to be stupidly hard to rent as well as save at the same time, especially when our savings were basically going down in 'real' value every year.

At least now we are now on the ladder. Wasn't the best deposit in the world but we didn't think 20% and a mortgage around 3 times our combined annual income,w as too bad. Time will tell I suppose.

I did have to give up my scooby though but never mind. I'll wait until I get my mid-life crisis to go down that road again.

 

Yeah, where's Alcazar

Chip

 

Moaning about insurance renewals!

 

What about the other amazing deal of the council tax being frozen?

Made to sound like its a massive deal yet they forgot to mention the services you are getting for that money have been cut massively.

 

Jeezo... whinge, moan, whinge, moan. Just admit it, you're all a bunch of miserable c*nts who come on SN to vent.

 

Car tax up by RPI, and i bet they round up not doen


Mart

 

Not necessarily. The extra tax is on north sea oil extraction so the companies won't have as much scope to increase prices because they still have to compete with oil production from other parts of the world.