BP oil profits double.
No tax relief on fuel.
While we're being told to expect higher prices and cancel our holidays.
Yeah. Something not quite right here.
The UK is blatantly corrupt
£179,000,000 is an insane amount of money
There’s no possible way planning can cost this much
Wonder how many MP’s kids work in ‘planning’
In Africa at least they’d bother to build some crappy road whilst pocketing 90% of it
This image says it all.
Top image: what you actually pay.
Bottom image: what fuel could cost without tax and VAT.
Unleaded shown at 143.9p becomes 67.0p.
Diesel shown at 166.8p becomes 86.1p.
That tells you exactly how much of the pain at the pump is government-loaded cost.
And then they wonder why people feel like they’re being robbed.
I promised to bring bills down and I meant it.
And today, because of the decisions this Labour government has made, the energy price cap has lowered by £117.
"I’m becoming more convinced that Starmer and Reeves have a sinister plan. They want to carpet bomb our farmland with new towns for immigrants and net zero wind-farms. But before they can do that, they have to ethically cleanse the countryside of Farmers."
- Jeremy Clarkson
Ed Miliband’s lack of basic understanding of energy taxation and economics was on full display here. And these numpties are in the government. It’s hardly a surprise that the country is in a total mess.
@Ed_Miliband Start drilling the North Sea.
Get rid of the windmills.
And put solar on all roofs and not on agricultural land and I might believe you.
@Ed_Miliband
The BBC has always been a joke...
Here's Chief Correspondent, Jeremy Bowen, pretending to be under Russian attack when an elderly Ukrainian lady walking her dog stops to make sure he's okay.