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5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Macdonald: Are th... · 0 replies · +1 points

"The Government should be doing everything it can to make the UK a more welcoming place for innovation and entrepreneurship"

The Govt is doing everything it can to be the antithesis of this. Prior to the pandemic we were close to selling our successful business and managing a retirement exit, with CGT of 10%. With Govt only listening to high tax lobbyists, this looks increasingly impossible and in order to have a comfortable retirement after 9 very hard years of work building up a business and employing 12 staff, we are exploring how we move abroad to minimise this confiscatory policy. Entrepreneurs relief was cut 90% last year. What message does that send. Its OK, I got the message.

Good luck in Dublin coldhouse

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Emily Carver: An onlin... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is a very interesting discussion, but so little comment on the demand side. Until the Conservative Govt, and Grant Shapps in particular stop colluding with anti-car mainly Labour, but some Tory, councils then the demand side for High Streets retail, cinema, arts, cafes will be limited to non-drivers. That is a small segment of the market.
The parking charges, ULEZ charges and draconian enforcement and entrapment have painted all authority as anti-car. Many people will not return to high streets and restaurants only to be fleeced, fined and harrassed. I don't shop at Amazon, and nor do I shop in either of my local cities which are profoundly anti-car and don't care cos a thriving economy is not in their financial interest.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andy Street: My transp... · 0 replies · +1 points

If Andy Street is talking to Grant Shapps it won’t be long before the conversation turns to ‘ways to make life harder, more expensive & more miserable for motorists.’ Shapps has this as top of his to-do list every day & Andy seems fully signed up to the congestion charging scheme that will suck economic activity out of the centre. But hey, our buses have a USB port for every empty seat. Conservative mayors and conservative transport ministers would not be working with anti-motorist Labour councils. Enough

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Patrick Hall: A demand... · 0 replies · +1 points

Its not that EVs Heat Pumps are coming and being introduced. They are being FORCED on people when there are myriad problems, and the challenges with many groups of car users are being ignored. If BEVs were so great, you wouldnt have to subsidise them. There would be demand. BIK is 0% this year.
But are we really saying that people in flats, terraced houses, on street parking cannot have a car. For many it will be very difficult. And why hasnt Govt said that cars must have a single type of connector. And what about the electricity price. While Govt is pushing people into new vehicles they are not regulating the fuel price. Petrol is +/- 8p per litre. But some suppliers for PowerPoints are 2-3 times the cost of domestic.
Finally, the Govt should say what the long term playing field will be. Road pricing, electricity price stabilisation, BIK ambition. How can people make decisions. How can people vote against a policy/party when the facts are hidden.
All the same arguments apply to heat pumps. Unsuitable for many, unaffordable for a great many. But don't worry, Boris and Sunak plan to increase gas 'green crap' costs so that the gas is priced out. Trouble ahead.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Patrick Hall: A demand... · 2 replies · +1 points

Making people's lives more difficult, more expensive and colder. That seems to be the plan that Boris and this unquestioning cabinet is setting out on.

Every single policy kite being flown is going to affect people in a negative way unless you already have a house that is highly modern, very well insulated and has a private driveway. For everyone else, the Govt is going to kick you, but not tell you how hard, where on the body, and when. I hope the 1922 have their gaze on some ministers who are briefing some very unpopular policies yet convinced millions of people bills, inconvenience and personal comfort is worth the sacrifice.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Our Cabinet League Tab... · 6 replies · +1 points

Some very unpopular policies will come from Sunak and Johnson soon. Carbon pricing and moves to load extra costs onto gas heating systems now that electricity prices are very high. This will be a highly visible and significant and unavoidable cost/tax for tens of millions. Electorally this is going to be very unpopular as the costs are going to be high and a clear shove in the direction of heating systems that are not suitable for many many properties.

The 'polling' showing road pricing was popular was incredible to almost any driver. If Boris thinks that pricing peoples journeys is going to go down well outside London where the public transport:private transport journey ratio is entirely swapped around, he will need a hard briefing by the team of MPs who sit for seats where the car is dominant and central to life, not peripheral or non-existent. One can only assume he knows what he is doing but I doubt it.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Our Cabinet League Tab... · 3 replies · +1 points

Grant Shapps: in collusion with anti-motorist councils, clearly using the SMART motorway as cover for hated Road Pricing planning, low traffic neighbourhoods causing highly disruptive journeys, and declaring that cars must be used differently. Actually making life harder for drivers in a pandemic and making life more expensive post-pandemic.

Please let Shapps slide to the bottom of the table and then off the list.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andy Street: 15 years ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Andy Street wants the Gigafactory in the West Midlands but Birmingham and other local authorities are rolling out plans in accord with anti-Transport Minister Grant Shapps to stop people using cars. Congestion charges, road closures, and imposed charges. Anyone would think the Govt is against cars. Or do we just want the jobs and the ££ and not the products.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andy Street: 15 years ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Please don’t forget the anti-car anti-motorist ‘conservative’ transport minister. He too has more than a walk-on part in the destruction of the motor industry and the travel in our lives. Please give him full credit in the end title sequence for this administration. Grant Shapps.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Jerome Mayhew: The car... · 0 replies · +1 points

So now Mr Mayhew goes into bat for the Govt on NetZero, reducing emissions, COP26 with a particular flavour of increasing taxes, and a specific tax in this case.

We have had a succession of MPs and think tank gurus all from the POV that we must make the most enormous changes to lifestyle, business and economy and he presumably thinks the Red Wall are just salivating at the thought of being forced off the road, and having their very warm and efficient boiler ripped out and swapped for something that in most houses does not work well enough. And there will be a tax to pay after these huge personal costs.

I didn’t vote for this. I support fully moving to reduced C solutions. We have a new, hyper efficient gas boiler and a family diesel that does 55mpg. But having got a taste of control of the populace via pandemic, the Govt is testing the limit of ‘force’. The policies of Mr Mayhew and all the other green-captured so-called Tories will impoverish millions. Slaves to a higher fuel,bill and road pricing, unable to travel and challenged to have warm homes.

Johnson out, Shapps out. Let’s see where the new energy secretary sits, but if Mayhew is his outrider, the whole lot should put the real plans to the public in an election. There is no political upside for this disastrous policy.

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