Reeves Urged To Consider Pay-Per-Mile Road Tax As £9Bn Fuel Duty Black Hole Looms

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Reeves urged to consider pay-per-mile road tax as £9bn fuel duty black hole looms (msn.com)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/02/reeves-urged-consider-pay-per-mile-road-tax-9bn-fuel-duty/#:~:text=Rachel%20Reeves%20has%20been%20urged,a%20hole%20in%20public%20finances

 

So now that everyone is going green and driving electric cars they will charge you anyway, and if you have a device to check our mileage they can check your speed, go one mile over the limit and you are fine.

 

More taxes from Labour

[naomi24]

It's been an eventful week.  Is anyone (apart from Reeves) counting the cost of all this to the workers - you know, the ones that Labour promised not to hit with taxes?

[douglas9401]

It's all too much I tells ya.

Think I'll have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what I can find.

[davebro3]

Madness - no one drives 10s of 1000s a mile a year for pleasure. They have jobs that require travelling or a substantial commute, it would be just a further burden on the working population.

[ToraToraTora]

now I'd support that, motoring is far too cheap so anything that gets the poor people off the road is great. Then I can drive my Jag with fewer old bangers in the way. Not standard labour thinking but I applaud the direction.

[ToraToraTora]

"Madness - no one drives 10s of 1000s a mile a year for pleasure. " - I do, thankfully VED does not limit mileage so I regularly drive an hour just to keep the jag ticking over. Once you start a car you should run for at least 20 minutes or you damage the battery and the engine. Fuel is so cheap it doesn't matter. I think road pricing is the way forward.

[Clone]

Someone's got women on their mind.

[newmodarmy]

Madness? No, it was Mungo Jerry, davebro

[Old_Geezer]

That's not a valid thing to tax because it opens the gate to surveillance of every citizen regarding where they go. Shades of the Stasi, and CCP people control !  Instead they need to tax electricity used for cars with the same tax rates as that for fossil fuels. And no substituting red electric as that is for tractors and electric agricultural vehicles only.

 

Anyway this electric car idiocy is bound to be kicked to the kerb soon, surely.

[jourdain2]

And so hitting the elderly and country-dwellers again!

This is appalling - I didn't vote for them but Labour obviously consider that 20% vote for them is enough and they are running mad.  This is little short of state control of movement that they are suggesting.  Unless they abolish the free vote at the next election they will be incinerated - and that's already!  Do they think that everyone will be too cowed and have had any spark of independence squashed out of them to vote against them?  I could never haveimagined this in my lifetime. 

[Deskdiary]

We're only three weeks in and it is already clear they aren't fit to govern.

 

Gawd knows what state the country will be in in a year's time. When they lose in 2029 we'll all be in penury.

[THECORBYLOON]

TORATORATORA you tell others to, "stop thinking like an individual" and "try and think of it collectively".

With regards to your strongly held  belief the cost of motoring is too cheap, why not practise what you preach?

[Togo]

It is only a sleight of hand from the left wing fascists. Get you concerned about the cost, of being in control of your own means of transport, by dressing it up as a save the planet scam. It is no such thing, it does not make financial sense. It does however provide protected employment for thousands of creepy wannabee busybodies, and the real aim of the surveilance is to log where you go and where you have been. 

[tomus42]

//the real aim of the surveilance is to log where you go and where you have been. //

 ..he types from his fully trackable and surveillable phone. Gawd elp us.

[douglas9401]

Luckily if any of this comes to pass the next government, should it be formed by Conservatives, would immediately abolish/reverse/rescind/undo all of the Labour laws, taxes, charges and restrictions in their first 48 hours.

 

Over to Jim Royle for a summary.

[Gromit]

Labour have not done this, a firm of City Accountants have posited it as a way forward. Labour have not agreed to it or indicated that is what they intend to do.   
And the £9Billion shortfall in duty is because of Conservative budgets and legislation, not incurred in the last 4 weeks.   
If you are all fed up, why don't you all go out and relieved your tension by burning a police car or bricking a mosque 😀

[douglas9401]

Okay, Gromit, but I have a screenshot of this for when the bobbies come calling so be prepared.

[Hymie]

TTT @ 20:36 showing his true Tory credentials; he couldn’t care less about anyone else.

 

It would not surprise me to find that TTT had received inflation busting pay rises throughout his working life, despite pointing out in a previous thread how bad such a thing is for the proles.

[ToraToraTora]

hymie: "TTT @ 20:36 showing his true Tory credentials; he couldn’t care less about anyone else." - not true my attitude is based on a societal view. There are too many cars on the road because it's too cheap. What if private jets were so accessible?

"It would not surprise me to find that TTT had received inflation busting pay rises throughout his working life, despite pointing out in a previous thread how bad such a thing is for the proles." - Nope I have rarely received an above inflation rise, I have incresaed my income through skills and promotions and moving to better paid jobs. Also I got bonuses for performance. All my financial rewards are based on performance. In the private sector you get a rise if you deserve one based on annual assesments not dished out to all and sundry regardless as in the socialist public sector.