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Originally Posted by Kizzy
They will... they lied in the 70's said it wouldn't rise and it doubled from 8% to 15%... Norman Lamont did something even more evil and put VAT on fuel, and Cameron raised VAT again from to 20% in 2010.
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... and extended it to hot food such as cooked chickens etc in supermarkets, it would have been on pasties and other things at the likes of Greggs if there hadn't been an outcry as to that.
VAT will never be scrapped in the UK,it is the easiest tax to raise and one of the quickest ways to gather more funding to the treasury.
Labour however have avoided in the main increasing Vat, it is as you say, Conservative govts; that always increase it and extend it to things that have been exempt from it before too.
I think that is their plan again this time too.