a flying pain in the ...

Air Passenger Duty. APD. Also known as TAX. It hurts. Apparently it's going up by as much as 55% as of Monday 1 November. Boo Hiss. My flights to South Africa are already made up of 50% of "taxes, fees and surcharges". So I can only assume that long haul flights will become unaffordable. And I will be stuffed.

I can understand one perspective of reducing your carbon footprint and keeping climate change in check. In fact I positively agree with it as I think we are trashing out planet. Without which we are nothing. Can't we just offset our carbon footprint instead?

Better that than paying random taxes to the government with no knowledge of where this money goes. If it cannot be accounted for regarding climate change research, expenditure etc., then if this is the reason for raising taxes then it is not good enough.

I want to know more. I want to know why.

I do not want my hard earned money going into a random pot to pay for MPs and Lords expenses or anything else unrelated to travel, the climate or the environment.

I am deeply peeved.