It’s another of those things where problem has been obvious for 10 years but rather than highlighting it on the past, previous Chancellors have ignored it until the problem became too big to ignore. … (View Post)

I can drive a lot of cars (mine, the wife’s, the children’s, my parents) because putting a 50 year old man with maximum no claims as a (very occasional) driver on a policy seems to significantly knoc… (View Post)

Fuel duty is £24bn - that’s 2.5pon income tax. Literally the only saving grace of fuel duty not being increased by inflation is that it’s only £24bn raised that needs to be found and not £40bn+ (View Post)

On pay per mile - the issue is that fuel duty is the perfect tax, so anything else is worse. We then have the usual British logic that everything has to be invented afresh. HMRC does not look round t… (View Post)

As with all councils they have no money - so council tax goes up as much as possible every year while services decrease. And from memory Bradford is completely screwed by child social care - it reall… (View Post)