IanfMorris
New member
The pleasure boating industry must be careful that is does not protest too much. There is something wrong with getting tax free fuel just to go for a spin up the Solent or wherever while other, and often less fortunates have to pay tax on their fuel to travel to work.
We will look very silly indeed if this debate comes out into the wider population especially as most of the electorate do not own a boat, let alone one with 500hp on board. In reality there may be a few owners who will find the extra cost unbearable but to the majority of keen power boaters I suspect it will be afordable.
Let us not both loose the debate, as we will, and get a bad name into the bargain.
We will look very silly indeed if this debate comes out into the wider population especially as most of the electorate do not own a boat, let alone one with 500hp on board. In reality there may be a few owners who will find the extra cost unbearable but to the majority of keen power boaters I suspect it will be afordable.
Let us not both loose the debate, as we will, and get a bad name into the bargain.