Ah yes, let’s tax those bastards from the Islands that travel by plane to avoid losing two full days there and back.
There is a single power plant in Poland that has greater annual emissions than the total amount that was going to be cut under the wildly unrealistic plan over multiple years.
For some reason the party that provides themselves on being internationalist and global cannot understand a global issue, it just doesn’t compute for them (the reason why is that they only use internationalism as a proxy for domestic politics, they don’t actually engage with international issues like climate change because there is no domestic upside to doing so…it is far better to introduce a mad tax that won’t do anything and then scapegoat anyone who disagrees with it, there is profit in that).
Oh that’s good, can I assume 75 percent of the tax will be used to subsidize rail travel then? And of course they’ll be building a high speed rail link to Orkney and Lewis?
Yes, more tax is the solution to every problem.
That extra tenner will deffo make a dent in my two grand holiday, may as well not go now.
Good thing there is a train link to Manchester airport
Fuck off already. Zero creativity or imagination, just ‘tax everything in sight’. Unless it’s the uber wealthy, who we show our arses to.
Sweet, are they going to provide affordable, frequent, reliable and quick railway services to compensate for the desired modal shift?
Would be interesting to see some rough numbers – how many people *do* domestic flights in the UK where there’re alternatives, and especially where their use is price sensitive enough that they’d switch?
Yet another money grab which does nothing but fill government coffers.
I live in the central belt
I already travel down to Manchester or London for my flights since they are so much cheaper
This doesn’t affect me at all.
Who will it affect?
Immigrants and international workers who travel home to see their family
People in the Highlands and islands?
People that don’t have a car so can’t easily travel down to Manchester and London
That’s lovely. Personally , I can get to London for next to nothing anyway, so I’ll just fly out of there if they do this and damage Scotland’s aviation sector.
They could be innovative and scrap long haul and international APD to encourage direct flights from Scotland to avoid the need for people to travel down to England…but they won’t.
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Is this the SNP trying to keep the greens inside?
Ah yes, let’s tax those bastards from the Islands that travel by plane to avoid losing two full days there and back.
There is a single power plant in Poland that has greater annual emissions than the total amount that was going to be cut under the wildly unrealistic plan over multiple years.
For some reason the party that provides themselves on being internationalist and global cannot understand a global issue, it just doesn’t compute for them (the reason why is that they only use internationalism as a proxy for domestic politics, they don’t actually engage with international issues like climate change because there is no domestic upside to doing so…it is far better to introduce a mad tax that won’t do anything and then scapegoat anyone who disagrees with it, there is profit in that).
Oh that’s good, can I assume 75 percent of the tax will be used to subsidize rail travel then? And of course they’ll be building a high speed rail link to Orkney and Lewis?
Yes, more tax is the solution to every problem.
That extra tenner will deffo make a dent in my two grand holiday, may as well not go now.
Good thing there is a train link to Manchester airport
Fuck off already. Zero creativity or imagination, just ‘tax everything in sight’. Unless it’s the uber wealthy, who we show our arses to.
Sweet, are they going to provide affordable, frequent, reliable and quick railway services to compensate for the desired modal shift?
Would be interesting to see some rough numbers – how many people *do* domestic flights in the UK where there’re alternatives, and especially where their use is price sensitive enough that they’d switch?
Yet another money grab which does nothing but fill government coffers.
I live in the central belt
I already travel down to Manchester or London for my flights since they are so much cheaper
This doesn’t affect me at all.
Who will it affect?
Immigrants and international workers who travel home to see their family
People in the Highlands and islands?
People that don’t have a car so can’t easily travel down to Manchester and London
That’s lovely. Personally , I can get to London for next to nothing anyway, so I’ll just fly out of there if they do this and damage Scotland’s aviation sector.
They could be innovative and scrap long haul and international APD to encourage direct flights from Scotland to avoid the need for people to travel down to England…but they won’t.
Omnishambles