As a former deliver Secretary, Philip Hammond understands all about drivers, the vehicles they use, highways they drive as well as frustrations they endure. What’s more, he’s more conscious than most that we drivers cough up £165million a day in road-user taxation (vehicles, fuel, vehicle insurance, etc), tolls, duties, levies as well as other iffy charges. This £60billion per annum goes direct to HM Treasury – a department he now runs as Chancellor.
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I was expecting – as well as thankfully, heard – a largely driver-friendly budget plan speech from him last week. True, he broke taxation promises previously published in his conventional celebration manifesto, although he didn’t provide motorists the kind of brutal kicking they’ve experienced in the past.
• ‘The government as well as cars and truck makers must do more to offer EVs’
But with so many comparatively affordable as well as simple fixes desperately needed on the roads – pothole repairs, white line repainting, indication replacement – why instead decree taxpayers must spend numerous millions funding the advancement of batteries for electric cars? surely the lethargic however lucrative battery market should be paying for such improvements?
It’s a similar story with the advancement of electric as well as driverless vehicles to which Hammond is committing numerous our millions;  the motor producing corporations should be working on these at their expense, not ours. The British government couldn’t (or wouldn’t) stump up the money to save Rover as well as Longbridge. Toyota in Burnaston as well as Swindon’s Honda, plus others who make prominent cars and trucks in Britain, are getting nowt in specify hand-outs. Yet ‘developers’ of unconventional equivalents are being heavily subsidised. Is this fair – or legal?
• ‘Why doesn’t the government problem guidance on the cars and trucks it recommends?’
The Chancellor’s £690m “competition” for regional authorities to deal with metropolitan congestion is similarly bonkers. If there are prizes to be had, why are they going to commonly ‘anti-car’ councils? benefits for motorists submitting much-needed congestion solutions would be preferable, as would a road facilities enhancement programme the Government’s own research study proves is desperately needed.  
And why, oh why, did he further demoralise world-class Brit workers by telling us we’re 35 per cent behind the Germans in efficiency terms? It’s an insult. And, just like the manifesto promise of “no increases” in national insurance coverage contributions, it’s a lie. 

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