Much is being made of Labour’s attack on drivers, and rightly so given that 88% of car models will be affected by the massive tax hikes. As today’s Telegraph points out [no link as I'm updating via blackberry today] the tax on a Vauxhall Astra will jump from £210 to £430, and on a Ford Focus it will jump from £170 to £270!

Such absurd hikes (absurd because they won’t do anything to reduce carbon emissions; the same number of people will be driving) have needless to say not gone down well with motorists. Importantly though for the Conservatives car use is around 17% higher in the top 100 marginal seats scattered across the country.

Motorists across the country might be angry, but what’s important is that motorists in the places the Conservatives stand the best chance of winning are particularly angry. And there’s no more powerful a force in politics than moral outrage.

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