Today our esteemed Chancellor, Mr Darling, did basically nothing except what was expected of him. He added tax to a few things, cigarettes, alcohol, blah blah, and then he popped a bit more tax on cars.

Not on hybrids or environmentally friendly cars mind you, like the Prius. But for sedans, family cars, there was a bit of an increase in road tax, and then for the gas guzzlers, the chelsea tractors, there was a big increase in road tax, to £950.

But as one news reporter said someone said to him, when you pay £30,000-40,000 for a car, what’s £950? Good point really. Mr Darling could have gone further and said a couple of grand, and the extra goes to improving our national transport infrastructure, or for electric buses, or something like that, something imaginative and inspiring.

Taking one look at Mr Darling though, shows you a bit of an uninspiring face. Maybe that’s why Mr Brown chose him, because he wasn’t much of a threat to him, like he had been to Mr Blair?

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