Greening's preposterous petrol policy performance

A few days ago, I drew attention to the Conservatives' policy on fuel duty, which is that right now all drivers would be paying a lot more tax.

That being the case, it is the most obscene hypocrisy for Putney's Conservative MP to be complaining about increases in road tax. Yet at Treasury questions on Thursday, there she was, shamelessly and shamefully whining about road tax changes that reward smaller, less polluting cars and penalise larger, more polluting vehicles.

Before she gets up to make another spectacle of herself - and Putney - in the House of Commons she should at least try to come up with an answer to the question posed to her by Treasury Minister Angela Eagle MP:

"Why is the hon. Lady talking about that, when her policy would put 5p on fuel duty now, creating an increase that would feed right through to the pumps? That is bad judgment."