Gordon Brown, the British Chancellor, introduced new tax law to penalise owners of Gas gusseling cars. Surely the fact that they use loads more petrol, on which you pay more tax, should be enough. What sort of hypocracy is this?

Can't see it making him switch to a Ford Focus. I wonder if the idea is to make people more aware of ecology, or just to get more revenue

Wouldn't surprise me if they came up with a lung capacity tax to get the people that don't smoke.

Can't see it making him switch to a Ford Focus. I wonder if the idea is to make people more aware of ecology, or just to get more revenue

Wouldn't surprise me if they came up with a lung capacity tax to get the people that don't smoke.

Shhissh, don't tell him, I could just see him use this one!

Can't see it making him switch to a Ford Focus. I wonder if the idea is to make people more aware of ecology, or just to get more revenue

Wouldn't surprise me if they came up with a lung capacity tax to get the people that don't smoke.

Shhissh, don't tell him, I could just see him use this one!

I can see it too, breathing tax.

the best one is the 100% rise in Air Passenger Duty - make the country a depressing rip-off to live in then tax us if we try to get away!!

war + tax credits = panic politics at it's worst.

Or best!

make the country a depressing rip-off to live in then tax us if we try to get away!!

That's been happening in Wales for years on a certain bridge..... free to get in, pay to get out