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Any Answers?: Green energy taxes; National football teams

12/10/2013

Green energy taxes; National football teams

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Suspending green energy taxes, and how to select who plays for a national team.

Green taxes are blamed for pushing up energy prices, so should they be suspended in this difficult economic climate? And should only people born in England play for England?

In light of soaring bills and the threat of blackouts, is it time to suspend Green Energy taxes? They have been blamed for contributing to our soaring energy prices. But would this be short sighted?

And is Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere right to say that only English people should play for England?
The chair of the Football's Association race equality advisory group says that his comments were "unhelpful and misguided". So how English is English enough for our national team?

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