Fuel duty petition

[Karukai 10]

As there are 60 million people in the UK, even if this petition attracted half a million signatures, it would represent less than 1% of the population.

We must therefore assume that 99% of the population of the UK are either happy with the amount of fuel duty or don't care either way.

 

Or don't know there's a petition do something about it?

[wellyman 10]

As there are 60 million people in the UK, even if this petition attracted half a million signatures, it would represent less than 1% of the population.

We must therefore assume that 99% of the population of the UK are either happy with the amount of fuel duty or don't care either way.

 

Well that's an interesting way of looking at it. It is a bit like saying that as Labour only poled 9,562,122 votes at the last General election the majority of people did not want them to form a government.

 

If enough people are mobilised on this petition, an already very nervous load of MPs are going to get very nervous indeed. I look at it this way. 2 million votes would be equivalent to 22% of all the people who actually voted for the government and 2 million more than voted for Gordon Brown to be Prime Minister.

 

Oh! I forgot to mention I have emailed the link to The Sun.

 

and the Telegraph

 

and the BBC

 

That'll do for now.

 

 

 

Just to add. Today a UGov poll was release showing only 22% support for Labour. Half what they had at the General Election. So my figure cound probably be reduced to around 4.6 million who would still vote Labour.

[e912 10]

As there are 60 million people in the UK, even if this petition attracted half a million signatures, it would represent less than 1% of the population.

We must therefore assume that 99% of the population of the UK are either happy with the amount of fuel duty or don't care either way.

 

seeing as at the last census 20% of the population were under 16 and therefore cant vote in an election or this petition it means i suppose 48 million can (discounting the 16-18 year olds) therefore half a million signatures would actually be over 10% which is a lot better looking, you can of course play with any statistic to make it suit your arguement or lack of one.

 

reminder on weblink to petition

 

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Lowerduty30/

[mahonia 10]

Ive done it

 

I would not mind paying a MAX of 99.9p for unleaded if the money was spent localy on Public Transport , but its not is it

[ajwt2 10]

its really not working, up another 1p this week ;(

[slimsid2000 10]

I think fuel duty should be lowered too.

[JFKvsNixon 11]

its really not working, up another 1p this week ;(

 

Fuel prices haven't gone up this week because of fuel duty.

[e912 10]

the petition is not due to be submitted for another couple of weeks so probably wont make a difference yet

[slimsid2000 10]

the petition is not due to be submitted for another couple of weeks so probably wont make a difference yet

 

 

That's right. Gordon Brown will have gone by then. He is a spent force to be honest.

[sccsux 10]

He is a spent force to be honest.

 

He's a spent force, even if you lie:D

[Hayley1 10]

yeah, but he's like a tornado, leaving devistation in its wake

[anarchist 10]

I see Gordon Brown has stopped one of the national newspapers from running a poll on fuel duty cuts