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No, this topic is not about Kermit the Frog.

The only reason that I bought The Mail On Sunday today was because with it came a free DVD of the film “Too Late The Hero” starring Michael Caine. I rarely buy any sort of newspaper on the principle that in most cases NEWS papers are more of OPINION papers.

However, splashed across the front page the headline screamed out “SECRET GREEN TAX BLITZ” and went on to reveal what Gordon Brown has in store for us with his secret plans, a leaked document reveals.

In a nutshell we are going to be hit with a variety of extra taxes on the pretext of combating global warming.

To quote the article by Simon Walters verbatim:

Most controversial of all, the documents reveal the Government is planning to grab billions of pounds of extra revenue from motorists – WITHOUT TELLING THEM. It is considering introducing a special mechanism so that whenever oil prices GO DOWN, the Government would get the cash in extra fuel tax – not the motorist.
A leaked letter from Environment Secretary David Miliband to Chancellor Gordon Brown says the advantage of this is that the Government would gain billions of pounds ‘without individual announcements on fuel-duty rises needing to be made’.

I kid you not. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/dailymail/home.html?in_page_id=1766

If TB and GB manage to push this through we can look forward to, if that is the right expression, to no more REDUCTIONS in the price of motoring fuel, only INCREASES.

However that is not the end of the Government’s shenanigans. Just to rub it in that this Government can do what it likes the commons leader, Jack Straw, is defying the protests about the exorbitant MP’s expenses allowance averaging some £130,000 each per year, he is giving all MP’s an extra £10,000 per year (£6.5 million) as postal expenses on top of the current average claim of £4,000 per year. At the top of the claims list is Hendon Labour MP Andrew Dismore with £25,146 to the bottom of the list Ilford Tory MP Lee Scott at just £600.

The trough gets larger and the snouts get greedier.