The Robin Hood Chancellor and the Merry Men of the Treasury seem to have their wires crossed by taking from the poor and helping out the rich.

The hard working families of this once great nation have enjoyed the ability to holiday in privately owned Static Caravans cheaply in beautiful places such as Wales.  But all this is about to end with a 20% VAT increase looming on your average static caravan making them unaffordable to the very group of people who buy them.

Not only will this affect the ability of holidaymakers to take affordable UK holidays it will also have a greater impact on the wider holiday sector and associated services that rely on the peak holiday season.

Many shops, pubs, restaurants and activity centres around the UK and Wales will suffer from a loss of business that will impact jobs and earnings of those who need it the most in tourist locations.

With a lack of cheap static caravans for sale those people who would be spending and financially supporting those people will disappear and the local economies of those areas will be impacted hard.

I am sure that not many politicians, bankers or Etonians are on the forefront of buying caravans or have business interests within the industry and therefore see no impact on their lives. However the impact on their constituents will inevitably come and bite them as the uproar we expect will come later in 2013/2014.

To support their tax increase the Government has said there would be a flurry of sales before the rise in October which will counter some of the losses, but with entering another recession in April 2012 this simply isn't happening. Do we think that they Government will care? Probably not based upon their recent actions and comments on the topic.

So to all the people thinking of buying a static caravan in the future, you should do it now as caravan parks are eager to sell cheap static caravan for sale at low prices to fill there caravan parks up prior to the VAT increase.

If the rise is all in the name of fairness, as Dave Cameron says it is, then perhaps the government should look at placing VAT on all second homes, including the ones our elected friends own. Would this have the desired effect on their pockets so they can feel the pinch of the new recession? Let's hope that they can at least take on board what the industry is trying to say and rescind their efforts to place VAT on cheap static caravans for sale.