What's Eating Me Today?

And the big news from this year’s Lib-Dem beano in Bournemouth is the proposal to tax off-road vehicles punitively because they are responsible single-handedly for killing the planet. Zzzz! Taxing 4x4s is so last year. Look what happened to Livingstone when he proposed it.

 

Fact: 4x4s (or rather SUVs, which is what is meant) are already heavily taxed as they mostly sit in road tax Band G. That's my problem for choosing to support a British manufacturer, but the government profits.

 

Fact: SUVs use more fuel than "ordinary" cars, so the Chancellor gets lots more fuel duty, which is more tax. Again, my issue for choosing a Land Rover.

 

Lib-Dems, go back to your constituencies and prepare for another 5 years in the wilderness.
 

BBC journalists... save us all a load of money and don't bother going to either the TUC or Lib-Dem conferences. Any speeches made at either of these junkets will have absolutely no impact on our lives. Move on, there is nothing to see.

Apparently our galant heroes of the road, the Highways Agency, that brave band of souls who spare no effort to keep our motorways clear of incidents, are to be given more powers to remove cars that cause an obstruction.

Does that include their own cars that trundle along the motorway at 55mph, convincing 75% of the numpty drivers that they are "real" police officers and thus slowing down the whole road? And will it also include the HA vehicles that clog up Tesco's car park near Preston while they consume their sarnies?