The Tartan Taxman has released his pre-budget report today and surprise, surprise, the theme is more taxes with the motorist bearing the brunt.  How nice it must be to have a free chauffeur driven car paid for the taxpayer.

“Green taxes” are a big part of this mini-budget with Gordon not letting the fact that global warming isn’t actually happening stop him from spouting the usual global warming doom and gloom and using it as an excuse to tax us.  Fuel duty is going up by 1.25p per litre with effect from midnight tonight and the tax on short-haul flights is going up from £5 to £10.

Bearing in mind that the majority of goods are transported by road in this country because the rail network is so crap, who will end up paying for the increased costs of transporting goods to the shops?  The general public of course.  It’ll cost more to get to the shops, when we get there everything will cost more and we’ll all have less money to spend causing recession … but hey, at least Gordon will be saving us from global warming which, I may have mentioned previously, isn’t happening.

It’s almost worth him becoming Prime Minister just to get him out of the Treasury.