You may recall a while back and certainly in 2000 that we the Transaction group of hauliers and farmers formed up to bring the country to its knees. With the cost of a litre of fuel now pushing £1.00 per litre, we have reformed under a new name of Transaction 2007.
We are still the same hardened band of people, some with radical ideas, some with other ways of trying to get the Government to listen to us, but all with a common goal, to get this fuel taxation problem addressed.
We have set up our new website and forum, all free to use, with the aim of getting as many people on board to achieve our objective. As webmaster and organiser of Transaction, I was wondering if we could link into your site and vice versa to drive some trafiic in each others direction as the whole protest thing seem to be going a little stagnent.
If you are in approval of this could you please email back with the link for your site that you would like to be added to our pages.
Our new URL for our website is www.transaction-2007.com
Not again! I object to being held to ransom by your idiotic antics. Hopefully, this time the police will deal with such terrorist activities in a more appropriate fashion. If you don't like the current tax regime, vote the Government out. It's called democracy.
And how do you square your current standpoint on "democracy" with that of your days with the anti-nazi league?
Oh, sorry, I forgot:
As far as "liberals" are concerned only they are allowed democratic rights.
Everyone else has to obey the "liberals"!
Pink Panther (no login) 172.142.123.88
Blinkered
September 12 2007, 1:17 PM
If you had taken the time to look at our website you would have seen we were not going to hold ANYONE to ransom. Have a look at the site sometime instead of automatically jumping to conclusions.
Transaction 2007 is the reincarnation of Transaction the group of hauliers, farmers etc that started the initial protests back in 2000 when we ran the pumps dry. Our aim is not to bring about mass panic buying of fuel again, we have adopted new tactics to make the Government listen to us and take stock of what we (the hauliers) and YOU (the general public) have to say about a regime that is is quite frankly dictatorship like in the way it treats the people who placed them in power.
Fuel in this country is nearly twice as expensive as that of our European counterparts. We feel (rightly so) that these hikes in prices every couple of years are merely lining the treasury's pockets and are not conducive to the general well being of the transport and farming fraternity. Surely enough has to be enough? The Government now has in place stringent measures to ensure no repetition of the 2000 uprising, so we cannot resort to the tactics we used back then. It is however, quite ironic, that when we did employ those measures to get our point across, the Government, albeit briefly listened and sat up rather shocked and took note. It's now 2007 and old Gordon Brown is up to his usual tricks. So where do we go from here?
Your guess is as good as mine, but something is really needed to bring this plea to those in power to stop taxing the transport and farming industries to death, which is what is happening on a very frequent basis. When will the treasury sit up and take stock of the fact that if transport were to cease for 36-48 hours (that means every haulier downs tools) then the shops and warehouses would be bare! This would not just be for that time period either, the knock on effect would certainly be felt many weeks thereafter as haulage tries to play a catch up game. What we are fighting for here is our livelihoods as hauliers, owner drivers, large blue chip operators, farmers and even Joe Public who is an end user of fuel. If transport fails in this country then we really will be up the proverbial creek with no paddle!
I will leave you with that thought.
Best Regards, Pink Panther
FW (no login) 128.243.220.22
Re: New Wave of Protests Imminent
September 17 2007, 10:52 AM
> If you had taken the time to look at our website you would have seen we were
> not going to hold ANYONE to ransom. Have a look at the site sometime instead of
> automatically jumping to conclusions.
Yeah, right. Statements like "When will the treasury sit up and take stock of the fact that if transport were to cease for 36-48 hours (that means every haulier downs tools) then the shops and warehouses would be bare! This would not just be for that time period either, the knock on effect would certainly be felt many weeks thereafter as haulage tries to play a catch up game." aren't threatening to hold the country to ransom at all.
If you don't like the Government, vote them out at the next election. It really is that simple.
And, no doubt, you used to tell your mates in the anti-Nazi League they shouldn't take direct action about things they weren't happy with.
But vote appropriately at the polls.
Oh, that would be no, then!
FW (no login) 128.243.220.41
Re: New Wave of Protests Imminent
September 18 2007, 9:56 AM
The fact that you are too dim to see the distinction between an anti-Nazi League rally and the fuel lobby holding the country to ransom over the taxes imposed by a democratically-elected government simply underlines why you have spent your life ranting in minor provincial newspapers rather than actually getting off your backside and achieving anything: you just aren't up to it intellectually.
Down with the Government (no login) 80.2.42.164
Good Luck everyone
December 14 2007, 12:12 PM
David is back in \O/
http://www.farmersforaction.org/7.html
In the news :
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1296569,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7137088.stm
F.W - [Quote]vote the Government out. It's called democracy. democratically-elected government [/Quote]
Hadn't you noticed that we Dont live in a democratic society anymore ? AND we DONT have an ELECTED Prime Minister.
Bungling Brown has probably just signed the final ? nail in our coffins. We've been communist since 1997 or have you been living on Mars ?
If so, How did you get there ?
Then Chancellor Gordon Brown has ended the freeze on fuel duty and doubled the tax for air travellers.
I assume, you also live in a tent ? with no gas bills, and have tapped into the national grid to get your internet connection ?
http://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/news/september-fuel-price-report.html
Fuel duty rise
Another 2.35 pence in fuel duty and VAT is to be added on 1 October. This, combined with last December's 1.47 pence duty and VAT increase, will add a tax burden to families with two cars that is nearly double the hit from this year's average increase in council tax.
Petrol prices fell from an average of 96.2 pence per litre in August to 95.2 this month. This time last year, the price fell from 98.2 to 90.3. The average price of diesel is 96.9 pence per litre, down 0.1p. Last September, it averaged 95.0 pence per litre. This means a two-car-owning family is paying an extra £10.76 per month for petrol compared to the same time last year.
With the average petrol car consuming 1,317 litres of petrol per year, the 3.82 pence per litre impact of two fuel duty plus VAT increases raises the annual cost of petrol for a two-car family by £100.62. This compares with an average £53 increase in council tax for a Band D dwelling in England (2007/8 - £1,321, 2006/7 -£1,268: Department for Communities and Local Government)
AA comment
"Petrol prices remaining high, and very likely to rise in coming weeks, is new and uncomfortable territory for UK drivers at a time of year when prices usually dip. With darker evenings and worsening weather adding to fuel consumption from use of wipers, heaters and lights, this could herald a particularly miserable start to the winter for motorists," says Paul Watters, head of AA Public Affairs.
"We think the Chancellor, when he set out in his March budget a schedule of three fuel rises up until April 2009, failed to take into consideration the volatility of oil prices. Then, oil was $57 a barrel, today it is $82 in the US. Families and business have for too long been victims of fuel price swings and seek some stability with their fuel costs. The new chancellor must take into account the pressure that price fluctuations place on families and business, and review planned rises."
Today's national averages
Petrol
102.8 p/litre
Diesel
108.0 p/litre
The UK has the fourth highest unleaded price in Europe and the highest diesel price.
I think we should boycott SUPERMARKET pumps and start a price war, how come Tesco can afford to give a 5p coupon off a litre if you spend more than £50 in their stores ?
Well done FW, another series of considered, reasonable, balanced posts. A rational mind boggles when reading the "responses" from Bogush - not that he responds really, her just rants on.
He's fallen way past the level where it's funny to laugh at him, this guy needs help. Maybe smoe samaritan will become his "friend". Anyone?
Oh and dont bother mentioning democracy - he knows he's in the vast minority and is just smart enough to know that until that changes (which it wont), there is no "perceived value" to his vote. So he'll just keep shouting. tic
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