00:00A Reform UK organised national fuel tax protest failed to ignite as only a few dozen actually
00:06showed up. In posts from Reform head honchos, Whitehall was expected to be brought to its knees
00:12by lorries, tractors and vans blocking roads outside the Treasury. In reality, there were
00:18less than 70 people, most of whom were press. Reform UK politicians rallied nonetheless,
00:23demanding action from Chancellor Rachel Reeves, calling for her to axe fuel duty and lower VAT.
00:29We're basically calling on the Chancellor Rachel Reeves to respond, as other finance ministers
00:34have done, to international events and have an emergency cut on VAT by 50% for three months
00:41and also, and that will help alarm clock Britain, it will help growth in the economy and also
00:47to give confidence by scrapping the fuel duty increase plan for September. You've just got
00:52to listen to what's going on, as other finance ministers do, instead of being tin-eared and
00:57profit, which is what we're seeing at the moment. We've got no growth in this economy,
01:02too much tax, too much wasteful government spending, too many daft regulations and the
01:07other thing we're calling is, grant the licences on Jackdaw, on Rosebank, other North Sea oil and
01:14gas fields and onshore. We know it works because it's working in America. That's what we've got
01:20to do here. Cheap energy, reliable energy creates more growth, more prosperity, more money in people's pockets.
01:27My concern is people's pockets. People want more money in their pockets. They don't want to be taxed every time
01:32they have to get into their car.
01:33My mum's elderly. She loves being dependent on driving a car. She's not going to get on a bike. She's
01:38not going to take the tube that's going to strike every three months.
01:41Reform will support motorists and in a time of global crisis, then of course the government has to put the
01:48people first.
01:49We're paying millions every day on our debt. Millions of pounds that we should not be paying. We should be
01:56redirecting the money into people's pockets.
01:58And in London, you've got clean airs, congestion, LTNs. Croydon Council was found to have implemented six illegal LTNs freezing
02:06motorists for millions.
02:08You've got blankets 20 miles per hour. You know, good policy is meant to protect people. Bad policy punishing them.
02:15And the blanket 20 miles per hour does exactly that.
02:18Despite poor turnout, the politicians remain positive about reform's future in the local elections.
02:24Well, we're hoping the more people vote reform, the quicker we get Starmer out. That's the key message. Vote reform
02:30if you want Starmer out.
02:32Look, we hope to do very well in the local elections. There's a surge across the country of support for
02:39reform.
02:39And the fuel duty and the situation at the petrol pumps is just one example of why people are looking
02:46for an alternative to this Labour government.
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