Brown faces party opposition over energy windfall tax issue

Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has been facing extreme pressures to enforce windfall tax on energy companies for saving Britons from the killing fuel price hikes and bills. A YouGov poll of 2000 people, which was conducted last week, was published yesterday and it indicates that around two third of the participants are in the favor of the levying of the tax. This means that the PM might have to face a vote in the Labour Party Meeting scheduled for the next month.

Almost seventy MPs of the Labour Party have already signed a petition in favor of the plan. A commission of MPs will plan a meeting with Brown for discussing the same.

The poll which was organized by the centre left pressure group, Compass and the Observer indicates that almost sixty seven percent of the Britons have a positive response towards the idea of the windfall tax imposition on the oil companies. It was also noted that more than fifty percent of the voters backed the idea of using the money generated out of the taxes in the long term projects which would aid in keeping the fuel bills permanently low.

Brown is also facing fear pangs of facing a coup for the YouGov poll has also revealed the Labour’s poor performance in comparison to the Tories which are on a forty eight percent, way above the meager twenty six percent achieved by Labour Party.

Considering the mid boggling price hikes by Eon and Southern and Scottish Energy over the past one week, the energy companies’ profits have ascended to sky high limits leaving the common householders with only never ending bills.