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#1
Posted 12 February 2013 - 07:41
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#2
Posted 12 February 2013 - 14:01
It would appear that Mr Baxter received an uncharacteristically quick response from Whitehall:
http://trove.nla.gov...rticle/18139628
Although this Parliamentary answer from Hugh Gaitskell a week later suggests that even 70 years ago Ministers of State had no idea what their civil servants were up to! OTOH Lipton was a Labour MP, so perhaps it was a planted question to somehow deflect criticism?
http://hansard.millb.../dec/12/baxtrol
There's also this article, from the Daily Mail in 1996, but it's only a preview. I don't have a Highbeam account to explore it further:
http://www.highbeam....-110831621.html
#4
Posted 16 February 2013 - 08:51
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Seems to have been a nine days wonder.
It would appear that Mr Baxter received an uncharacteristically quick response from Whitehall:
http://trove.nla.gov...dp/del/article/
Good to see the Sydney Morning Herald was once a source of useful news.
#5
Posted 21 February 2013 - 18:44
Seems to have been a nine days wonder.
It would appear that Mr Baxter received an uncharacteristically quick response from Whitehall:
http://trove.nla.gov...rticle/18139628
Although this Parliamentary answer from Hugh Gaitskell a week later suggests that even 70 years ago Ministers of State had no idea what their civil servants were up to! OTOH Lipton was a Labour MP, so perhaps it was a planted question to somehow deflect criticism?
http://hansard.millb.../dec/12/baxtrol
There's also this article, from the Daily Mail in 1996, but it's only a preview. I don't have a Highbeam account to explore it further:
http://www.highbeam....-110831621.html
You bet he received an uncharacteristically quick response from Whitehall, anything that would threaten to upend the Treasury's stranglehold on imposing swingeing and relentless taxation on British users of any commodity was strictly verboten, and of course this was the unnecessary rationing and repression for as long as we can impose it post war Labour government, was wholly predictable even then.
#6
Posted 22 February 2013 - 14:00
You bet he received an uncharacteristically quick response from Whitehall, anything that would threaten to upend the Treasury's stranglehold on imposing swingeing and relentless taxation on British users of any commodity was strictly verboten, and of course this was the unnecessary rationing and repression for as long as we can impose it post war Labour government, was wholly predictable even then.
Let's face it if some genius came up with a way of running cars on bovine urine then the Chancellor would tax it.
#7
Posted 22 February 2013 - 19:37
Let's face it if some genius came up with a way of running cars on bovine urine then the Chancellor would tax it.
What if it turned out to be horse piss?
Joking apart, if the ongoing obession with the fantasy of running battery powered cars every day (and think about the problems in providing it on streets en masse and the probable environmental damage that would ensue) actually becomes reality watch what happens to energy costs which are already increasing and will hit the stratosphere if electricity becomes essential to road users, never mind the wind turbine nonsense.
#8
Posted 10 March 2013 - 20:21
Also as Twinny had pointed out to me in the past; T.N.F is no place for political rants, informed or otherwise.
#9
Posted 10 March 2013 - 23:18
The reasons for continued rationing of petrol were many and complicated and, whatever your view of the Attlee government, they were entirely necessary in the prevailing economic circumstances of the time.Thank you gentlemen for your response and especially to Vitesse2 for the links. However; Paul seems unaware that up until 1925 Road Tax had been ring fenced for the sole purpose of improving the road infrastructure. It was Winston Churchill who in 1925 raided these funds for non motoring uses, so much so that within a few years the British motorist was the most taxed in the world. Post War Britain was a very different place, petroleum had to be imported and we were broke, there is no logic in rationing something unnecessarily when it is taxed so highly.
Also as Twinny had pointed out to me in the past; T.N.F is no place for political rants, informed or otherwise.
Virtually all of them can ultimately be traced to Capitol Hill, Washington DC ...