2p is too little Darling

Yesterday, after much deliberation and debate in the newspapers and news channels, Chancellor Alistaire Darling Announced that the 2p tax increase per litre of Unleaded that he announced in the spring budget, has been put on hold once again, due to the excessive cost of fuel at the moment. I have never understood why our fuel always cost so much. I understand that they have made Billions in tax over taxing fuel, but this in turn has been part of the bigger problem. We have virtually the most expensive fuel in Europe. This in turn leads to higher costs for everything in our economy. Higher fuel means the cost of delivery of all goods is higher still.

As the price of Oil has risen to nearly $150 a barrel the percentage that money going to the treasury has risen so much that Whitehall have made an additional £5 Billion than what they were expecting in the spring budget. What do we get for our money? More yobs on the street? Out of control immigration? Inflation officially at nearly 4% having risen by 4.6% in the past month? Where is our tax rebate? What are they doing for the hard working people of this country that have for years paid taxes to support the economy? Nothing. Thats what.

No wonder that knife crime is out of control on the streets. The word CHAV is known in virtually every household. Council House and Violent is the meaning behind the word. When you have allowed a whole society to grow up with such bad education, they turn to crime to fund their needs. Instead of bringing up millions on people on handouts, surely we should be educating these people and getting them back to work. Instead of an unlimited pot of free money in handouts and tax credits? If our own people were willing to go out and work maybe, just maybe, we wouldnt need millions of immigrants to boost the treasury's coffers every year.

Every day we see how the cost of living is rising, how our schools are failing, knife crime is rising, most recently our power stations are all about to go out of commission but although the Government has agreed in theory to more new nuclear power plants, the majority, 65% of British Energy that own the power plants, is in public hands. The shareholders are refusing the take over of shares by the French who are due to build our next generation of nuclear power plants. Thus meaning we are drawing closer and closer to brown outs as the aging plants start to reach the end of the life span.

Will things really get that bad? Could we really end up in the dark? Knowing the clowns that run our country at the moment, very possibly.

With that, I shall step off of my high horse and take a breath and deep sigh. If only I could be in politics eh?