Retirement with No Problem

Waterways News Snippits

• Boaters see red over plans to tax fuel

“One of the problems is that people feel that this all about something for ‘toffs’”

TOFFS??!  Rubbish!!  Our budget on No Problem would seriously be effective if the EU decide that us Brits must drop our subsidised ‘red’ diesel. We are paying anything from 35p to 45p a litre at the moment, shopping around to fill our tank with around 100-120 ltrs per fill up. If Britain lost this concession our fuel bill would triple, and the cost of our 100 ltrs would go from £35 to something nearer £100.  A huge rise for us.

“hundreds of owners would move their vessels abroad if the “subsidy” is scrapped”

No chance on being able to do that for us of course.  I remember going over the channel on ‘booze cruises’, now coastal boat owners may go over the channel and get their fuel in France where it will be much cheaper again because it is subsidised by their Government.

“a tempting tax target for the Chancellor and EU authorities”

But of course, but while the Chancellor has lost a lot of customers of other items to the French government, he has US trapped in the Inland Waterways, giving us no chance of buying from anywhere else in the EU!!

“Three organisations, the Royal Yachting Association, the British Marine Industry Federation and the Inland Waterways Association, have joined forces and launched a campaign to persuade the Government to fight any change”

Come on then, tell us how, when and where, we will fight for this!