Why doesnt Gordon Brown cut the outrageous amount of duty on fuel, to enable the country to recover?

Question

Why doesnt Gordon Brown cut the outrageous amount of duty on fuel, to enable the country to recover?

Answer 1

He's a b*****d

Answer 2

The welfare state.

Answer 3

The simple answer to this is greed. The Government cant afford to cut the amount of duty on fuel because that would mean they would make less money out of motorists and would therefore not be able to give themselves such large pay rises and all the little 'extras' they get on top.

Answer 4

he will. but just not as soon as we'd like. he'll do it when it gets to 130.00p per litre, then cut it by 14p. and get the fat-cat share.

then he'll say say what a good boy he is.

and we'll be so goddamn greatfull we'll forget he should have done it weeks ago when it first went sky-high.

Answer 5

Because he is a treacherous waste of space who wants to destroy Britain.

Answer 6

He can't be arsed. You have to admit,all politicians are self serving parasites,with no concept of reality,plus they couldn't give a toss.

As for £1.30 a litre, diesel was £3.00 a litre down here in Cornwall a few days ago,some garage owners also taking the pizz.

Answer 7

He cannot cut fuel duty

"Whats he going to live on when he is voted out of power"

(His MPs perks)

Answer 8

Because he has been told by Brussels to destroy England, this unfortunately will therefore include the other constituent nations by default. The reason for this is to make the joining with Europe through the corrupt Brussels junta more palatable that being ruined by your own government. Brown doesn't care and is like Mugabe only interested in one person Gordon Brown.

Answer 9

He can't drive and doesn't understand how essential it is to us.

Answer 10

Because they don't give a d**n about the people of this country they are more content in lining their own pockets than helping people who are struggling to pay their bills........ Its a government to be proud of hey?

Answer 11

he's a tosser.

Answer 12

Probably because it is the only way to pay benefits to all the scrounging scum in this land and their families abroad.

Answer 13

Because of Gordon Brown's mismanagement of the British economy he has no room to manoeuvre!

Answer 14

Think that's bad?

Wait until the new Road Fund Tax rates come into force.

At least you won't have to worry about the cost of fuel - you won't be able to afford to drive your car anyway!

Answer 15

Recover from what?

Why are people whining so much???  It is just prices.  These things happen.  Imagine being Iraqi...then you might have something to moan about!

Answer 16

Because he and his labour party are a bunch of greedy b4st4rds

Answer 17

Who the he** is " Gordon Brown". The Congress, by law set dutys, Taxes, and all other Federal laws of this Country. Even taking us to war.

Answer 18

Well that would make sense wouldn't it, he could do that over night and take the strain off the British motorist, but no he goes off the Saudi Arabia and has talks about increasing production which will take months to filter through to the motorist and by then fuel will still have increased so any saving would be lost. The workers of this country are also told they cant expect inflation linked pay rises, even though gas/electric and food bills are going up, so we will all be worse off. The Problem with the government is they really don't care about you and me, and lets face it the more fuel goes up the more the government make in fuel duties and vat. This government is treating us like we are idiots and its time we showed them we are not.

Answer 19

Because the government is already in enough debt, and it needs the fuel tax to pay back all the money they've borrowed (perhaps he shouldn't have sold off half of the UK's gold stocks when gold was at its lowest price in 20 years...and look, now the price is going through the roof). Basically, the labour party is close to bankruptcy, and also, Brown doesn't need to be accused of another "u-turn" , even if it would benefit us all.

Then again, it's only really been commercial drivers who have been protesting, not the ordinary motorist - perhaps if we got off our bums and started rallies and protests in public, the government may get the message (especially if a lot of people join). Personally, I'm fed up of having to pay £1.23 for a litre of petrol...(especially when I see on tv that people in other areas of the country are only paying £1.18)