Friday, July 25, 2008

Labour Blues: ‘Green’ Taxes Scotched

Global Warming Politics 
In truth, ordinary folk are absolutely fed up to the voting booth with the Government raising taxes and costs in the name of airy-fairy ideas about ‘managing climate’; with so-called ‘green’ taxes that are retrogressive on the poor; with ill-judged retrospective taxes; and with self-righteous calls from the rich for everything to cost more. As the Glasgow East by-election so starkly demonstrates, the political outcome of all this carbon claptrap is inevitable, and it is quite amazing that Gordon Brown can’t see it...

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