Mar 10 2007
David Cameron and Greenery
David Cameron does not wish to raise taxes overall. He has made clear that a lower tax economy is a more successful economy, and that he wishes to preside over a lower tax economy. He is regularly attacked by Brown/Blair in the House for saying he wishes to share the proceeds of growth between public spending and lower taxes. Labour now says Conservatives will spend billions less than them under this doctrine, and they seem to think that’s bad news!
The Conservatives are??not going??to back a scheme of national road pricing for cars, and have been very critical of the government’s crab like attempts to get extra revenue from this source. The party is looking at road charging for lorries, to make tax fairer – at the moment UK lorries pay very high diesel duties, and VED, whilst foreign lorries pay nothing, buying much of their fuel on the continent. A shift in taxation to pay as you drive for lorries could even the score for UK hauliers.
??David is always clear that technology is the best way of tackling emissions – he is not someone who wants to stop people driving or going on holiday.
6 Responses to “David Cameron and Greenery”
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
JR: “David Cameron does not wish to raise taxes overall.”
But he is sympathetic to the left wing policies that have caused high taxes in the first place.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/23/npolitics23.xml
from the above article: “He will also back the redistribution of wealth, a traditional Labour theme.”
Which means the people who work hard, will continue to see their earnings erroded under a Cameron led administration. The man ought to be the next leader of the Labour party not Brown. He would fit right in.
JR: “David Cameron and Greenery”
Lest we forget.. http://www.norway.org.uk/education/misc/cameron-svalbard.htm
JR: “The party is looking at road charging for lorries, to make tax fairer – ”
John, I am going to try to be polite. That is inaccurate. Any road charging initiatives will not come from the British government regardless of political affiliation. Such a policy will be dictated by Brussels on a Pan European scale.
Or Disengenious. “The party is looking at..” note, no actual policy initiative after sixteen months.
John, be kind as to tell us what EU DIRECTIVE 2004/52/EC says about the technologies each EU country will use for their road pricing schemes?
Did you know about the Shadow Chancellor’s new idea? Scrap Airport Departure Tax and put VAT onto the cost of tickets. Although this might be slightly cheaper for short haul journeys it sure bumps the price up if you do a long haul flight ig. go to see your children in Australia.
Mr. Osborne states that he wants to hit business and frequent flyers in order to save the planet! And this after Channel 4 screened “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.
JR: “David Cameron does not wish to raise taxes overall.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=VLFHUTLWAZGD5QFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/03/11/ngreen11.xml
No but he will do his best to burden us with unnecessary and counterproductive taxes to appease his favoured special interest group.
Peter Turner: ‘Mr. Osborne states that he wants to hit business and frequent flyers in order to save the planet! And this after Channel 4 screened The Great Global Warming Swindle
The clarity with which our leaders see such ambiguous scientific information should upset anyone who has worked in science . Our country is being delivered into the hands of science philistines and ex communists, now “greens” all desperate to manage all our lives with ” Carbon policing ”
soon we wil not be able to smile on a sunny day.I find it sad that Mr Cameron should fall in with this crowd. Lastly, when man-made GW is found to be bull will we get our money back? no sir !!!!
John, as you well known, cutting taxes is hard, because the government deals almost exclusively with and through the largest direct pressure-group for higher public spending – ie, the public sector. We in the private sector know this all too well, because we ourselves have to set, meet, and cut budgets on a regular basis.
If we, the poor disenfranchised private sector, are to have any hope of raising the burden of taxation, we therefore know that it has to be a standing priority, a gut commitment which can be maintained under fire, as it were. Otherwise, there simply is no hope.
And the problem I have with Mr Cameron is that there is no evidence whatsoever that he has this commitment. Or that the guff about “sharing the wealth” between public and private already sounds in many ears to be running up the white flag before a shot is fired.
This is my feeling: taxes are not just too high; they are FAR FAR too high. The public sector is not just too big, but FAR FAR too big. The government doesn’t just impinge on private behaviour too much, but FAR FAR too much. Put your hand on your heart and tell me Mr Cameron feels this, knows this. You can’t, can you?