Poorer families will be priced out,long-haul flights will be for the wealthy.This is a tax on fun..just to try to curb 0.1% of the world's CO2 emissions.Daft!!
2007-03-11 11:43:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Other - Destinations
Duncan..how the hell are we meant to know what is going on then???
2007-03-11 12:10:51 · update #1
I was going to vote Tory this time..anything to get rid of this labour lot..kept their tax promises..that's a good one!1how many stealth taxes have they brought in by the back door?10? 20?..Tebbitt should be leader. I think UKIP will get my vote now!
2007-03-11 12:14:45 · update #2
How predictable is the man - pretending to be all green and ethical. He is so unsincere it is unreal. Like we don't get taxed enough on our cars, the rubbish we put out etc - and where does the money go to - it ain't the environment is it no, it's funding the wars we keep getting roped into. I will continue to fly everywhere, drive my big car and not put my cardboard out - it's all hype and ways to extract more money out of us - when I see the money getting spent on the environment, I might reconsider. By the way, if I fly from Bristol to Manchester to see my friend it takes me 40 minutes, if I drove it would take me over three hours so which is greener - work it out Cameron!
2007-03-11 11:56:20 · answer #1 · answered by Bexs 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Tories have said they would put VAT on jet fuel - but as aircraft fuel taxation is subject to an international treaty, they couldn't arbitrarily do it anyway. So a bit of muddled thinking from the Tories I'm afraid.
Not that you should ever trust a Tory on taxation matters: remember the last two Tory Prime Ministers both broke specific promises on tax; In 1979 Thatcher promised not to increase the VAT rate, then doubled it within a few weeks of taking office. In 1992 John Major said he wouldn't extend the scope of VAT, then put it on domestic fuel (subsequently reduced to the lowest level allowed under EU rules by Labour after 1997).
In contrast (and this will attract a few thumbs down, because so many people on Y/A cannot stand the truth) Labour under Tony Blair has actually kept to its manifesto promises on tax.
***** P.S. RACH L - you really must be one of the most stupid people on Y/A. David Cameron is the leader of the Conservative Party. They are the Opposition. The flight tax proposal is nothing to do with Tony Blair or the Labour Government. And people like you are allowed to vote!
***** P.P.S. Duncan - what, even if we saw the Shadow Chancellor on the news saying it?
2007-03-11 11:57:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
one more reason not to return to the UK then - fortunately my skills and experience are in demand in countris that don't have such stupid politicians.... so I'll stay where I am, then take my savings and my backpack and travel the world for a couple of years...
No, it's not fair. For example, I travel long haul at least once a year, and short haul four or five times a year...and I know many others who do the same, city trips and so on...
It's basically a stupid joke idea I think.
He won't get elected on that!
2007-03-11 11:54:49 · answer #3 · answered by Our Man In Bananas 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
this isn't any longer humorous. The Americanised television debates that have been all 'teach' and without substance, left me chilly. Now we are to settle for the spectacular comparable, hollow be conscious, "replace" using fact the human beings have usual. This trend isn't a accident. This new breed of youthful, 'showmen' politicians in Britain, began with Tony Blair, are there to distract us from noticing the reality of our 'Democracy': - that those politicians can purely MAKE innovations to the european Council which the Council can REJECT. - that we weren't allowed a vote on the Lisbon Treaty that's self-amending and so the Council has the potential to alter our straightforward 'shape' sooner or later without our say. - that we can not vote for our ecu President - nor even criticise him, as shown in the medical care of Nigel Farage MEP. - that the intense representative has no constrained term of workplace - thereby dangerously allowing the employer of a Dictator. no one is going away - we, the persons, have lost all our rights to make any of them go away. The 'teach-men' of politics have anybody fooled.
2016-11-24 21:08:00 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shows his true dictatorial colours if you ask me, you can't change a Tory any more than a leopard can his spots.
He is just a political charleton.
2007-03-11 14:52:29 · answer #5 · answered by eastglam 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cameron is just a clone of Blair he is talking of one holiday to Spain if you are flying,I drive down there so f--k him.I'll go as often as I want.
2007-03-11 14:37:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is trying to boost local coastal tourist trade,by deterring people from leaving the country.The Dick Head.
2007-03-11 11:50:30 · answer #7 · answered by Butt 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yea right, when these politicians fly to Brussels every week, to have more of our countries laws eroded away.
why dont these politicians think and feel like real human beings?
dont answer that. Yahoo server would crash thro the expletives
2007-03-11 11:56:53 · answer #8 · answered by paul h 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's only frequent fliers who would be taxed and it only works out at about an extra £8 anyway. It won't happen.
2007-03-11 11:47:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Don't worry ..he'll never get elected so long as he endorses vote losing policies like these
2007-03-11 11:48:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋