Dear FairFuelUK Supporter, Today we publish the list (see below) of 28 MPs who have so far said that they will support our move to scrap the 3p per litre rise in Fuel Duty (which equates to 16p a gallon when you include the VAT) due to hit us in just 9 weeks time on 1st August.
The MPs supporting are:
The supportive MPs are from every Party in Westminster except the Green Party. Crucially, there are even MPs from the Parties that make up the Government, Conservative and Liberal Democrat.
We thank the 28 MPs who have declared support – but to have a chance of winning we need dozens more. Many of you may be surprised that your MP is not on the list as you may have had supportive responses from them in the past on this issue.
If your MP is not on the list, please send an email to them NOW challenging them as to why. If you click on this link Email your MP we’ll give you their email address and help you frame the email. Even if you’ve recently emailed your MP and have received a less than encouraging reply – please send an email anyway, perhaps changing the wording slightly to reflect your earlier correspondence. Many MPs who have declined to support over recent days have failed to acknowledge our central argument - that research from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has proved that the Government CAN afford to cut duty as it will lead to economic growth. That economic growth will compensate for any loss of revenue from the cut in Fuel Duty.
Given this research, which is based on the Treasury’s own model, why on earth would any MP from any Party fail to support a Fuel Duty cut that will create 175,000 new jobs, boost growth by 0.33% and leave the Government no worse off?
If your MP is on the list, why not send them an email thanking them for their support. Those in support who sit on the Government side are likely to incur the anger of their Party’s ‘whips’ by throwing their support so publicly behind us. To send a ‘thank you’ email, just click on this link thank you email, enter your postcode, then delete our wording in the existing email that is designed to send to the non supporting MPs and replace it with a few words of your own.
We have to force MPs to look at this research and not just ‘toe the Party line’. When you have sent your message. Please pass this link http://action.fairfueluk.com/stop3pto as many of your friends, family, customers and colleagues. MPs do take note of the volume of emails they receive on this issue.
Thanks as ever for your fantastic support. Let’s build on that list of 28 MPs……….
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Monday, May 28, 2012
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ADD YOUR OWN COMMENTS BELOW THIS POST. THEY ARE VERY WELCOME
[ posted by jackie Lee, May 28, 2012 11:25 ]
I emailed my MP Andrew Tyrie for chichester west sussex. I received a reply today. he said that the chancellor has withdrawn the 3p rise due in august.
jackie Lee
[ posted by Kevin Graham, May 28, 2012 11:51 ]
We need to pull together and scrap this. With whats going on within the United Kingdom its just another nail in the coffin. Convince the government to wake up and STOP this rise!!!!!!
[ posted by Mark Templeman, May 28, 2012 13:38 ]
here is the email I received from my MP, John Penrose, who is allegedly the Tourism Minister, so should understand that high petrol and diesel prices are not only hitting the working families, but also must be hitting tourism too.... It's blatantly obvious that these MP's have not one real concern about the impact this is having on the ordinary person, as let's face it, in their cozy Parlimentary 'bubble' they don't have to worry about mundane stuff like paying for fuel do they? ....
Thank you for contacting me again about the cost of petrol, and I appreciate you taking the trouble to let me know your concerns. I think we both agree the price of oil is painfully high but, beyond that, I'm worried that most of the alternative approaches which the Government could take would increase the strain on our economy rather than reducing it.
As an example, cutting either VAT or duty on fuel would require either higher borrowing (with the very serious possibility of ending up like Greece), or further cuts to public services like health or education, or increases in other taxes to balance the books. Any of these options would hammer consumer demand and hinder our country’s economic recovery – something which I’m sure none of us want – far more than high fuel prices would.
In other words, the people trying to persuade you that cutting fuel duty is the right answer to the country’s economic difficulties need to explain where they’d get the money from instead. Personally I wish there was a better solution, but so far no-one (including the IMF) can find one. That said, if you feel there’s anything we should do differently please let me know – as you can appreciate, workable solutions are hard to find, so all thoughts are gratefully accepted!
Yours sincerely,
John Penrose
MP for Weston-super-Mare
[ posted by Mark Kilday, May 28, 2012 18:00 ]
Recently received a reply from my MP Gregg McClymont,outlining his views.
Few quotes-
""..hugely concerned at the Chancellor's announcement in the March 2012 budget that fuel duty will rise by 3pence per litre from August"
"I would have liked to see ptrol prices reduced and I supported calls for the Government to temporarily reduce VAT.....I also supported an Opposition motion..proposed precisely this reduction"
"I appreciate the importance of helping to reduce fuel costs and I know that FAIRFUEL UK have produced research on the potential economic impact of a cut in fuel duty,but I think that at this difficult economic time a VAT cutshould have been the Government's priority as the fairest way to stimulate growth and to help low and middle income households"
[ posted by chris gould, May 28, 2012 19:18 ]
Similar sort of reply from my MP Andrew Bingham (High Peak). Sympathizes but that is all.
[ posted by Doug, May 29, 2012 1:07 ]
Mr Lee Scott is my MP for the Ilford North area. I have Emailed him a couple of times about the fuel tax increase etc BUT so far I've had no reply. I assume that we pay for his petrol out of our taxes so he's probably not bothered as he doesn't have to pay the bill out of his pocket. We could save millions of pounds each year if we sacked all the MP's etc. What do they actually do?? Nothing as far as I'm concerned. Lets start a petition to have all MP's removed ;-)
[ posted by Andrew Pease, May 29, 2012 9:22 ]
A quick way to reduce fuel costs is to stop the supermarkets charging up to 5p a litre more in rural areas - I beleive it is plain profiterring for example compare Tesco cirencester with Tesco Cheltenham and you will see what I mean - 5p off per litre and charge you up to 5p more how is that a deal !!
[ posted by ray green, May 29, 2012 9:50 ]
STOP destroying British buisness with ludicrous fuel taxes.cheaper fuel equales cheaper cost of living and thriving buisness, equales more taxes so you will get the money in the end.
[ posted by Nicholas Gillard, May 29, 2012 20:42 ]
Thank you for your email about the Fuel Duty Rise in August.
As you will be aware the fuel duty was frozen by the last Labour government budget and by the first coalition government budget, however in this year’s Budget the Chancellor committed to implementing a 3p rise in fuel duty for August 2012. Last year The Chancellor scrapped a 1p rise in fuel duty, but less than two weeks later the RAC pointed out that the price of oil had already risen so much that this had been cancelled out. The true cause of the rising cost of motoring has more to do with rising oil prices than it does with fuel duty.
Motorists will continue to feel the pinch from soaring pump prices unless the Government takes urgent action to reduce our dependency on expensive oil imports. With oil prices expected to rise further still, cutting fuel duty is not the answer - we need a clean, efficient transport system we can all afford. I believe the government must speed up the introduction of electric vehicles and super fuel-efficient cars - and invest in affordable alternatives such as better buses and trains.
I am pleased to see an increase in fuel efficient cars which benefit environmentally but also financially as there has been a decrease in the demand for fuel. In our constituency we have seen the closure of ten petrol stations in the past decade and we now have only four left, this is reflective of the increase of fuel efficiency in the vehicles on our roads which is something I welcome.
I will take the liberty of adding your email address to the mailing list to receive my monthly report, which covers most of my activities in and out of Parliament.
Yours sincerely
Jeremy Corbyn MP
[ posted by Terence Harland, May 30, 2012 9:07 ]
Where does Robret Goodwill my MP STAND He sit's on the fence and toe's the party line
[ posted by Henry Pirie, June 14, 2012 17:04 ]
Received a letter today from our Lib.Dem M.P., Malcolm Bruce obviously not in favour of this campaign and trying to justify his stance by saying the goverment has reduced the price of fuel by 1p per ltr.! He also states that they have cut the fuel duty to the Isles of Scilly and to the Western Isles, though how that helps his constituents in mainly rural Aberdeenshire I fail to see. He also states that owing to a previous engagement he was unable to attend Robert Halfon's debate so obviously it was not very important to him. Will be taking his letter round the vintage scene to drum up some support for the campaign