Today it was announced that the government will be scrapping their October rise in fuel duty. Already delayed from March this has come as a welcome concession from the government who have driven the knife into the motorists wallet solidly over the last decade.
Record oil prices have caused a 20% hike in fuel prices since [...]

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At a time when the government are at their lowest ebb, the economy is on it’s knees, inflation is up and consumers are feeling the most financial pain in over a decade it would seem mad to raise road tax by a vast margin. But that’s what Labour plan to do. It’s been labeled as [...]

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The governor of the Bank of England, Mervin King wrote a letter to the Chancellor last week outlining the current rate of inflation and the causes of it. He stated that inflation was running at 1.2% above the target of 3%. Of the 1.2% increase 1.1%, in his opinion, has been caused by the rising [...]

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