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Another UK ‘Green’ Tax Poll
A PoliticsHome Phi5000 poll commissioned by the TaxPayers’ Alliance panel found:
An overwhelming 74% of the public now believe that “Politicians are not serious about the environment and are using the issue as an excuse to raise more revenue from green taxes”, up from 63% in August 2007. The number of people with faith that politicians are using green taxes for the right reasons has fallen from 20% to 14%. A majority of every party’s supporters hold this view: Conservative (87% : 6%); Lib Dem (63% : 20%); Labour (66% : 24%), as do floating voters (74% : 8%). This explains why the Conservative Party is rapidly backing away from their “pay as you burn not pay as you earn” tax strategy.
October 24th, 2008 at 4:49 am
I think many voters see through green issues, but the politicians are fearful of any providing any balanced policies because of the fuss the media will make. Sky and the BBC and not at all balanced on green issues, and provide an almost communist state broadcasting approach to them informing us of how we should be green.
A few years ago the BBC was lecturing us about how in the near future our gardens would have to be transformed to mediteranian style, and of course we just had two cold wet summers— nothing like what was predicted