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STANZA TO REASON Gordon Brown, he is a fool—

21st December 2000
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Keywords : Finance, Public Finance, Tax

Won't reduce duty on our fuel.

Says cars can have it from next year, But ultra-low-sulphur diesel is already here.

Hauliers and farmers are going to the wall But he won't reduce duty on fuel at all.

He might not think this poem is funny, But, Gordon, let us keep more of our own money.

Tax was to reduce the ozone layer; The full burden on motorists is grossly unfair.

That excuse for exorbitant tax has worn thin So emotional blackmail excuses begin:

You say duty is for education and health—

Gordon, stop taking money by stealth.

These should be paid for by general taxation, The cost falling more fairly upon the nation.

Because we wore in haulage, not as MPs or in a factory, Bleeding us dry financially is far from satisfactory.

The cost of one lorry's duty per month would astound—

Do you know mine is over two thousand pounds?

More than twenty four thousand pounds a year By any stretch of the imagination is far too dear.

Open your eyes, see who's using roads for free, Don't take what they should pay from the likes of me.

I tell you again, Gordon, you're taking too much money.

Trying to bring up a family on nothing is not funny.

Scientists, in all the environmental hysteria.

Will tell you a bigger threat comes from a cow's posterior.

Hauliers for years have paid more than their bit, So go away, Gordon, and tax the cowsh't Sixty days, Mr Brown, to get yourself out of the woods.

But, as usual, only road transport delivers the goods.

Net exactly Poet Laureate, just a poet In a lorry.

R Smith, Rotherham,

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