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Cheap/free buses and subsidised ebikes? Nah. That's a sop to mondeo man, for shame that's the weakest sauce.

Ridiculous policy announcement. And I'm a paying member. Do more for people who want to leave their car at home or switch to EV.

This is foolish. We need to raise more tax not less. We need to burn less fuel not more

This is a fucking atrocious policy. Fuel Duty needs to be higher actually, and all the proceeds invested into broadening the public transport network.

100% disagree with this policy. You should tax the bad things and cut tax on the good things. Petrol and diesel are very much bad things.

Totally wrongheaded approach to the cost of living.

And what happens when the Houthis hit a couple more Tankers, and the Price shoots straight back up, anyway ? This isn't the answer, and you SHOULD be smart enough to know !

I don't think it'll work that way. It requires petrol retailers to be honest...

Awful policy. Please do better.

Do you honestly want to fry the planet? Stick to daft photo ops on log flumes.

I don't have a car. This is not more money in my pocket. How about money off public transport?

A subsidy for wealthy motorists, what about subsidies for people using public and active transport!

Boooooooo get new material

I'm sorry to read this. I was a member (& minor-league activist) of the Lib Dems in the early 2000s, and continued to be a supporter. But I don't think I can vote for a party that wants to cut fuel duty; it's crass populism, and where is the money going to come from to pay for this?

No, thanks. There are better ways, please find them.

Nope. Support alternatives to private car use and everybody benefits.

No. If people keep on voting for parties that continue to dip their wick in the hornet’s nest we helped create in the Middle East for fuel they need to suffer the consequences. Remove the freeze on it and build public transport, active travel options, etc. actual investment in infrastructure.

The Lib Dems consolidating their bid to be the new Tory Party.

You can absolutely not pay fuel duty: by not driving. But since fuel duty barely covers the infrastructure and health costs imposed by driving, the public purse doesn't lose out when that happens.

So price working people out of owning cars? Fuck off you eco-fascist.

Bollocks. Take the money and lower electricity cost, subsidize people buying bikes/ebikes, take some tax on food off. That helps everyone, not just the people who happen to own a car.

This is really stupid

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk please go away and rethink your party’s priorities rather than giving the rich yet another tax break. Tax car use much more heavily to fund good active travel and public transport infrastructure

Just no

Burn baby burn! Let's throw out more subsidies to #fossilfuels and help drive #climatechange.

While people can drive their kids to a school less than a 10 minute walk from their house and then sit with the engine idling chatting to other parents: fuel is not expensive enough

This is a very very bad policy. *send post*

Ed Davey was a minister in the Con-Dem govt. He traded the lives of people on benefits for a 5p tax on shopping bags. Now party leader he's bragging that he's a king maker and trading the life of everyone on the planet for 10p off petrol. Shit person. Shit party.

Looking for the insentives to carry on cycling to work 👀

Nationalise fuel production. It's a critical resource - why leave it to profit guzzling corporations? It's time to do more.

I've been on the LD/Green fence for a while. This is another policy that pushes me away.

More droughts. More failed harvests. More fires. More heat deaths. Vote Liberal Democrats.

Oh do fuck off.

Dreadful, when I joined the LIb Dems we campaigned for higher taxes for social education, not lower taxes for already heavily subsidised motor users.

Continued political obscurity it is then.

That's it, I've had enough of your wrong footed approaches to transport - I will be resigning my membership.

This up there with University fees capitulation and automatic Brexit reversal. Do better please, LDs.

Can you also discount the costs of buying ecargobikes, whilst providing adequate funding for cycling infrastructure and public transport, at the same time?

*in the pockets of people well off enough to own cars

How to convert Lib Dem voters into Green voters. Appalling idea.

Thank fuck you're thinking of the drivers, the poor drivers! Sod anyone else, good for you!

No. Use the money to get more people off fossil fuels. Electric cars. Heat pumps. Solar panels. Build a future.

Even if you remove the environmental violence and regressive taxation aspects, the crisis is supply driven. Increasing demand will push up prices/corporate profits. One of the most foolish policies ever.

Do pipe down, people don't want crummy electric cars. Forcing ICE cars off the road is exactly why the eco-loons will never be elected.

As a lifelong LD member, I find this so disappointing, populist and unimaginative. 😒

Nope.

So stupid, would just put off the inevitable for about a week. Demand destruction will need to happen. Suggest targeted policies that help those most at risk due to the price increases.

public transport investment - the real way forward

This right here is why you'll never be the government. Can't you read the room? The burning room?

This is incredibly disappointing to hear. Poor, populist policy making.

Tears up membership card. Please explain how this puts more money in my pocket? I walk or cycle to work, and drive an electric car for those trips where I can't walk or cycle.

Terrible policy when domestic transport is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases in the UK.

Wildfires, a desperate need for action to switch to EVs, public transport and active travel and you do this?! The only sense this makes is if you think votes from Conservative and Reform is a core part of your strategy. This is idiotic and really really self defeating.

Sorry guys this isn’t the answer Government needs the tax People need lower prices for energy The world needs cleaner fuels Promote alternatives improve our energy balance and stop pandering to corporate greed

Is this a parody account?

I'm afraid your consistently bad transport policies, over many years, are a big turn off for me. You can't be trusted to be progressive on transport I'm afraid, a real shame.

No. Use the tax raised from people wealthy enough to run fossil fuel guzzling vehicles to subsidise public transport. Add nonprofit routes in rural areas. Free transport for the unwaged. So much you can do rather than let the rich keep £5 or £6 when they fill up.

This is an awful policy. I have a Lib Dem MP who says he is passionate about tackling global heating, but then his party's big announcement is that it wants to make fossil fuel-powered transport cheaper! It is bonkers.

Not very green @libdems.org.uk. I’d rather have cheaper public transport.

While the world burns

This just reinforces the narrative that the Lib Dems have no vision. It does nothing to motivate, nothing to address underlying problems & doesn't improve anything. It's just bland and pointless & it also discriminates against those that predominantly use public transport & bikes. Rubbish idea.

No! 10p off EV charging rates now Trump is helping the world ditch oil, don't discourage that

Wouldn't it be better to use that money to help people buy electric cars ???

Does he no longer believe polluters should pay? www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

I'm going to not vote for you even harder, now.

...and more fuel on the fire, where the next generation face an unbearably hot climate. "But we Boomers are OK. Let them burn."

What a stupid policy. We need to reduce car dependency, not enable it.

The world is on fire.

This is a truly terrible policy. The cost is £2bn. For a 3 month cut. For a shade over 3bn according to the Campaign for Better Transport you could provide an hourly bus service from 6am to midnight to every town and village of more than 300 people. Now that would be transformational.

Fuck off then, no-one wants the eco loons

And caused by whom? Oh no. Don't mention the Tangerine Scream!

Yes. But they still harm the environment, rather than look after it.

Just stupid.

Dreadful posturing. Anyone not driving a car, well bad luck. And when prices rise a further 20p? What then? Let’s stick with fossil fuels and you’ll keep subsidising it? A stupid, costly policy that achieves nothing and won’t win votes from drivers, but will lose votes to the Greens

Wrong! What needs to be done is to get rid of peak hour train fares. They have already got rid of them in Scotland. It will help more working people take public transport and put money in their pockets. Great for the environment as well. A win-win policy