They are about to stop us buying the kind of tumble dryer we want. They will tell us if we must have one it has to be a heat pump based type, entailing longer drying times especially in winter if you keep your machine in a cold place. They are dearer and may be costly to run in cold times.
They will ban new petrol and diesel cars as soon as 2030, forcing us to buy nearly new ones imported from abroad or to buy battery cars , many of the cheaper ones from the Chinese.
They are hovering over banning gas boilers more generally and have already banned them for new homes and want them out of rented property.
The government works to close roads, narrow carriageways, introduce more traffic lights, more low speed controls and other devices to try to get us out of our cars. Instead of cutting CO2 these measures greatly increase congestion, increasing fuel burn and low gear movement.
The government imposes big fuel taxes, windfall and additional rate profits taxes on oil and gas companies, VAT on fuels, carbon taxes and emissions trading costs. These all make us worse off and to destroy many UK industrial jobs.
There is a rout going on in many industries from ceramics to glass, from steel to petrochemicals, from plastics to ICE vehicle manufacture. None of this will reduce world CO2. It will just ensure the CO2 created by manufacture is made somewhere else, with additional CO2 from shipping the products and goods to us as imports, travelling many more delivery miles.
Please government put a stop to it. End all the special taxes, levies and rules. Let customers decide. We will choose more wisely than government. We will ensure many more industrial jobs stay in the UK making things we are proud to buy.
May 7, 2026
All these things should be market driven not government knows best driven with rigged markets, taxes, subsidies and bans. For some people use (who use dryers a lot) a more energy efficient but slower dryer might make sense for others like myself who rarely use our drier at all they would not. Our drier is well over 20 years old I suspect the head pump ones come with a 12 month guarantee and will not last much longer than that. They also need to consider the extra energy needed to manufacture these more complex units.
A list of some of the more insane rigged markets in the UK.
Schools, the NHS, public transport, the car EV market, banking, heating, energy, universities, drugs and vaccines, house building regs, planning, employment laws, rental laws… these all damage the economy hugely.
May 7, 2026
The government imposes big fuel taxes
Not for long hopefully the country is going down the pan with all this associated and net zero rubbish and both main political parties are to blame over the decades of shutting industry’s down and blaming the ozone layer/ climate change/ now net zero, well the people are waking up to the fact we have been and still being ripped off and now is the time for change