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Forum: General Chat Topic: Budget to penalise road users - tax on permit to drive? |
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 14:12
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| Yes, they most certainly area law unto themselves and have fixed things to remain so - The battlemap shows that the political playing-field is not level at the moment. Assuming the Liberals are constant on 15%, then Labour wins a majority if it can win 41% of the vote. But the Conservatives would ha... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Budget to penalise road users - tax on permit to drive? |
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 09:54
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£1000 for the tax disc?
That would cause riots on the streets. It's not fair! |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Budget to penalise road users - tax on permit to drive? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 23:36
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Yes, it is 79.9p here and on the M1 it was 81.9p.
It is sliding upwards again. By the way, what is the world commodity price of oil doing this week? |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Budget to penalise road users - tax on permit to drive? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 23:18
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| Who knows? Who really knows what evil this lot might have dreamt up in their gilded new Treasuiry building? To be sure I will not be travelling to central London again for a while because .. 1. I haven't renewed my free pass through the congestion charge because they appear to be going to charge me ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Tories on the offensive... |
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 20:36
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| yes, it's on Loddon Bridge Road in Woodley. Developers wanted to do back land development and we wanted to stop them, so we formed a committee and pooled knowledge and action. That road the new housing will feed onto in rush hour is too dangerous already so cannot have any more, we thought. But is i... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Budget to penalise road users - tax on permit to drive? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 20:28
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| The dreaded budget is coming up. Apart from losing all inheritance tax loopholes and increasing the basic threshold for house stamp duty from £60K to maybe £90k they are saying motorists are to get bled dry. Personally I do not think it is possible to feel much dryer than we are already - the Gobi d... |
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