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Well the truck drivers have made statement today with their go slow. The only thing is that it’s not a statement for me and you just the haulers! No doubt the government will give them some form of dispensation while the rest of us pay for it.

The one comment that made me pick up my ears was from Jack Straw who told the BBC "government revenues have to come from somewhere" finally a Labour MP has spoken the truth rather than the usual rubbish the government spout for taking 65% of the cash we hand over when we fill our cars with petrol which is basically their stock answer for any fuel tax petition on the 10 downing web site.

‘The Government's policy is that fuel duty rates should rise each year at least in line with inflation. This supports the Government's effort to reduce polluting emissions and assists with the funding of public services. In the Chancellor's 2008 Budget fuel duty rates were announced for future years, through to 2010-11. These increases are expected to result in carbon savings of 0.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year by 2010-11.’

If you want to sign the latest petition that the government will no doubt give the same answer to and ignore even though so far 66,819* people have signed then go here:

Fuel Petition

*The largest legitimate petition on the 10 downing street website.

So after a 3 year long legal battle the commons has finally given into the fact that they have to provide full details, not a top line figure, for their expenses. Welcome to the real world guys. I don’t know about you but I have to detail my expenses to my employer, don’t you? And as a tax payer and a voter, I’m every MP’s employer.
The Sunday papers are going to be well worth a read because the information, including receipts to back up their expense claims, is being (grudgingly) given to the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and campaigner Heather Brooke that details the claims made in 2005 by 14 prominent politicians, including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Sir Menzies Campbell.

It would seem that MP’s aren’t worried about you and I knowing what they are claiming expenses of up £23,000 a year for, but they don’t want their addresses revealed.

Reading on the BBC’s web site, Conservative MP Julian Lewis said MPs should be able to enjoy the "same degree of privacy and security that any other citizen is entitled to enjoy".

Hello! Have you not heard of the ‘electoral roll’ Julian? Let me acquaint you with it, it’s a big list of names and addresses and if you want to vote you have to be on it and... get this, it’s a shocker!

By law, your local electoral registration office has to make the electoral register available for anyone to look at.

Yes Julian, you read it right and what’s more the people in power in this country (that’s you Julian, you may not be the government but you do vote to pass laws... don’t you?) feel that it is also ok to SELL this information, oh you can opt-out of the ‘for sale’ version if you wish, if you tick the box.

So Julian at which point do you not have the "same degree of privacy and security that any other citizen is entitled to enjoy". Answers on a post card!

Then there is this other fool Liberal Democrat MP Bob Russell, who has tabled a motion calling for a breakdown of the expenses of, and home addresses of, High Court judges. Seriously, how did this muppet get elected? Bob take a minute to think about it. High Court Judges sentence murders, big time drug dealers and terrorists to serve time! If you give these people and their cohorts the address of the judge that will be sentencing them what do you think is going to happen? Do you need a clue Bob? How about this: Federal judge's family killed is that what you want Bob? Is it? Just because you now have to account to the people who put you where you are and pay your wages what you claim as expenses? Seems a little bit pathetic if you ask me Bob.

I’m sure this isn’t going to be the last post I make on this subject!