Shock horror! PBR

And the even bigger shock - everything's the Conservative Party's fault!!

What the old "policies put in place by the previous administration" tag line.

Ah to help this he is putting the north see tax up but freezing tax at the pumps for the rest of the financial year. So slip the tax in further up the chain so he can have an "It's not me guv'" moment when the tax filters through to the end users.

To be fair the current administration has only had 8 years.

only 8 years? I'm sure it's been shorter than that, along the line of 8 years and a bit of counting the extra change days

freezing tax at the pumps is all well and good, but I the tax at the pumps is X% but the base price is higher, that means he'll get more tax doesn't it? I was pleasantly shocked to fillip for 87.9 p the other day :)

Yeah, the previous lot even had the audacity to moan on about that in

1997! I bloody hate politicians. Mendacious bastards.

95 unleaded is down to 84.9p/L at ASDA Sinfin Derby.

The Mid West Yanks have all hibernated so lots of spare "gas" production.

85.9 for a week, then 84.9 for the last too. Very pleasantly surprised, but still too expensive.

The old policies adopted wholescale by the Labour party when they took power?

Probably.

But then, that's what happens when you don't understand why you should do something, in a changing world where the reasons make different policies better after a while.