VICTORY FOR CAMPAIGN TO SCRAP FUEL DUTY RISE
SNP STATEMENT
The announcement that a planned 3p rise in fuel duty is set to be scrapped has been described today as the ‘culmination of a hard fought campaign’.
The SNP has been at the forefront of calls to scrap the rise in fuel duty that had been planned, highlighting the enormous damage it does to households and businesses. Had the rise gone ahead as planned, it would have represented a £130 million tax rise for Scottish households and businesses and put around 4,000 jobs at risk.
Working with FairFuel UK, the SNP has repeatedly attracted cross-party support for its efforts to win a fairer deal on fuel duties for households and businesses.
Commenting, SNP Westminster Transport Spokesperson and MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar Angus MacNeil MP said: “The scrapping of this planned tax hike is positive news and is the culmination of a hard fought campaign which has won support from a variety of different sectors.
“Sky high fuel prices affect every single one of us, driving up the cost of motoring and the price of everything we buy in our day to day lives.
“In Scotland’s many rural communities high fuel prices have a particularly heavy impact as prices are usually both even higher than urban areas and are unavoidable for households who simply do not have the option of using more public transport.
“That is why we have campaigned heavily for a fairer deal on fuel prices and why it is a relief that on this matter at least, the Chancellor has heeded our calls.
“The last thing that people needed was a fresh hike to fuel duty, so I am sure that people across Scotland will be delighted that our campaign has been successful.”
Good result, but no thanks to MacNeil who was absent for most of the important debates.
Angus B (not MacNeil) – I often wondered what the B in your name was for, now I know.
Mr Junkie – the absence of substance in your rhetoric indicates that you are bereft of substantive arguments you believe in and resort to personal abuse.
Mr MacNeil was either present at every important debate or he was not.
Hansard records his absence.
Your point is?
AB the MP was too busy tweeting and supporting the next massive hike in haulage charges to bother doing anything constructive for his constituency
Totally nothing to do with SNP…. These guys are unreal. Will try to take credit any good thing that happens….
The SNP had nothing to do with this change. It’s on record… They don’t even turn up to debates on this important issue for remote areas.
How brazen can you get! Do you think the members of this constituency are idiots?
“That is why we have campaigned heavily for a fairer deal on fuel prices and why it is a relief that on this matter at least, the Chancellor has heeded our calls.”
Didn’t that heavy campaigning include not managing to get the Islands fuel petition to the Chancellor ahead of a previous budget statement? George Osborne has listened on the subject of fuel duty but I hardly think that it was to AB or the SNP!
What on earth are you guys complaining about, the purpose of an SNP MP is not to DO anything, but to disrupt and. further the cause of a FREE SCOTLAND! Donald, Winnie, Gordon and Margo understood this concept very well in the early days before we had a chance of success, and as Donald used to say “It’s got to get worse before it gets better! The end justifies the means!” with a nod and a wink and a puff of Ogdens Flake before the banned it. That bonnie team knew their business alright, with one press release a year and FREEDOM rabble rousing at our conference, also once a year, that would keep the black kettle of independence boiling over alright. But it’s been disaster all the way since the Fat Marag (FM) took over with his banker ways and smarmy attitude. He ignored me at conference once, and that is why I turned against him, making sure I smacked him full on with the ill wrapped parcel of salt herring ( in the days when herring was a real fish, before the last one was scooped up by a marauding east coaster), that I was taking down to my cousin in Cumbernauld or some other such place, they all look the same.
So why should we be bothered with fuel taxes when we have red diesel?
It’s not like the old days when all the busses ran on it, and all the Point fusses were painted red to warn off any excise man who had the mis-fortune to be banished over here with the carrot of islands allowance.
Them were the days, when we used to while away the time after six and before the last run home in the Crown Hotel, after it was built, us in the westerly Lochie corner and the Rudhachs in the east. Although the Archie Brothers were as red as they come, Alex Dan always used to give us drivers a steaming bowl of his special recipe salt 3year old salt mutton potato soup before closing time, so we walked straight to the bus, sat in the driving seat, rolled an early bird , and off she would go, a proud Lochie blue (we were all mostly tories in these days), then I would shoot out a stinging tobacco sclungaid out the open window, hoping to catch some poor soul on the way home from the Tolsta communions on a Tuesday, if it was Tuesday, then it was all set for the far end of Lochs. After reaching the Soval bends we were well on the way and it was time for the brown paper bags to come out, and boy did I have a thirst on after Alex Dan’s soup! The roads were built proper in them days, with proper U bends, dips, hollows, black hole pot holes and deep ditches to make sure you did not nod off at the wheel. I will tell you another time about the rest of the journey, meantime I am locking my larder in case the FM comes to visit.
My donkey is somewhat miffed that he does not appear to have been given any credit for this positive outcome.Seeing all those that have jumped on this bandwagon,he feels the next request played will be “the parties over” which covers a lot of bases