Odd, that if my car had been registered a couple of months later it would cost £25 less to tax per year - yet is identical in all respects to the 2 month younger car! As for Mrs C's car, I never thought I'd have to pay more than £200 per annum for a 45mpg, 1.4L car.

Thankfully my car tax is up for renewal in August - that way I can tax it for six months, then get a full 12 months when I renew it again in March 09, just before the big increase.

As for pricing people off the road, it's all very well, but sadly puclic transport is not inadequate as such - it's just it's completely impractical. Mrs C works 45 miles away. If she went via public transport, she'd have to leave home before the buses and trains actually start in the morning, and would get home about 11 at night. Doesn't work does it (and she's someone the current idiots in charge class as a "key worker"). Those in Westminster and in all these clever think tanks have no idea of reality.

The cure for everything, raise taxes.  At least thats the way the government always seems to think.  Too bad if I needed more money I couldn't just go to my boss and charge more for my services.