'Green tax' on airfares sham exposed

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We all love to moan at the cost of air travel and you have to wonder what people complained about before the Wright Brothers arrived on the scene.

Today we have another reason after the newspapers reveal that Chancellor George Osborne – Gideon to his chums – has admitted in a leaked letter that the 'green' air fares levy imposed on each an every one of us when we choose to fly, is not actually a fee to deter people from air travel, it's simply another revenue-raising tax. And he plans to increase it even further.

As if we were under any illusions in the first place.

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