Quote Originally Posted by OchPie View Post
Some, but not all. A significant proportion was the right wing press whipping themselves into a frenzy - I suspect on the assumption that their attack lines would hold whether they matched reality or not.

I don't think we're there yet, thankfully. Still, it's telling that yet another chancellor didn't unfreeze fuel duty.
I know raising fuel duty is very unpopular but I would have liked to have seen it go up a bit, if only to have then been able to keep £2 bus fares.

Making car travel a bit more expensive to make bus travel a bit cheaper seems like something a Labour government should do.