grober
MB Master
The headline "Francis Maude bigger than Justin Bieber on Twitter " pretty much sums up his position I think.
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Plenty of fuel here, come to Nuneaton... Just had another delivery
What should they have done then? Just sit back and relax, tell people that there's nothing to worry about, let events unfold as they watch panic buy spontaneously erupt across the country, and then reel in the rewards when they tell the stranded drivers that this is what you get if you let the Unions becomes too powerful.
The political price to pay is that the spin they (may) have hoped to give the fuel tanker drivers strike thereat, which was mobilising public opinion against Unite/Labour, backfired badly. The inevitable panic buy did occur, but the media and the public blame the government rather than the Unions. Labour 1, Tory 0 (own goal).
They should have made people aware thet the earliest a strike could occur would be seven days after an announcement of one while reminding everyone that no strike has been announced.
Then they should have assured the public that they were doing everything they could to avert a strike instead of displaying the 'bring it on' attitude they did.
They should never have permitted the 'fill jerrican' advice - on safety grounds alone. Nor should they have urged motorists to top up when no industrial action was proposed.
They should be concerning themselves with getting the economy out of deadlock while ensuring levels of fairness that do not promote perceptions of material inbalance that can lead to social unrest.
What do they think they were elected to do?
I agree with all your comments apart from the first line - in my view no government announcement could have averted the panic buy..
I don't believe the public would have behaved as they did.
Their obseqious following of government's command is a little unsettling though.
I've just been to fill up at Esso and there wasn't a soul in sight, put £100 of diesel in and away I went.
I've just been to fill up at Esso and there wasn't a soul in sight, put £100 of diesel in and away I went.
Filled up at Shell in OBR yesterday afternoon. No queues, but curiously they had no V Power Petrol or Diesel - just the standard varierty of each. Either everyone's been panic-buying the V Power stuff or they just had less of it to start with.
Filled up at Shell in OBR yesterday afternoon. No queues, but curiously they had no V Power Petrol or Diesel - just the standard varierty of each. Either everyone's been panic-buying the V Power stuff or they just had less of it to start with.
...or perhaps the refineries are focusing on shipping-out as much standard fuels as they can, and are less concerned about the premium ones at this point of time?
Never has the saying " better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're stupid, than open your mouth and confirm it" been more apt.
Along with this ill-thought pastie 'tax', they really are starting to look
incompetent.
Out of all this the issue which causes me greatest concern is Camerons blatant lie that he had only last week eaten a pastie at Leeds station, subsequently proved impossible
Why hasn't he resigned and why isn't he being pursued to so do, its bad enough thinking our politicians are all liars without the Prime Minister being proved to be one!
I'm with markjay on this.
"No strike for for at least 7 days following an announcement."
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"No need to panic."
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The government says don't panic. PANIC!
Resistance is futile!![]()
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