Fuel crisis? Options

[Gooner72]

Reading the cooments on a proposed strike is definately a good PR stunt by dodgy Dave and his cronies, I think I read today that the extra fuel being sold has raised Dave a cool 32 million finest English Pounds, oh and then they want to rob us some more by adding 3 and a bit pence to a litre of fuel, nice!!!!

[eternalriver]

No. It's racist.

Please don't be so ridiculous!

[Penelope]

Please don't be so ridiculous!

Oh dear, did we miss the little smiley face then ?

[Vodabury]

... the extra fuel being sold has raised Dave a cool 32 million finest English Pounds

£32 Million? - a few hours interest on the national debt.

[blackdog]

Reading the cooments on a proposed strike is definately a good PR stunt by dodgy Dave and his cronies, I think I read today that the extra fuel being sold has raised Dave a cool 32 million finest English Pounds, oh and then they want to rob us some more by adding 3 and a bit pence to a litre of fuel, nice!!!!

It may have raised £32million - but it would have been bought anyway, just spread over a few more days.

[Dodgys smarter b...]

It may have raised £32million - but it would have been bought anyway, just spread over a few more days.

Not the stuff being stockpiled in peoples' garages.

[Andy Capp]

It may have raised £32million - but it would have been bought anyway, just spread over a few more days.

Well, weeks maybe (and after the end of the financial year)! Seriously, what were and are the government thinking issuing a fuel warning now? What good would it do?

[Adrian Hollister]

I would rather join the greens and hog all the resources for myself whilst lecturing others with weasel words.

Your clearly already there with the second bit, happy to talk more about the first bit.

[Jo Pepper]

Your clearly already there with the second bit, happy to talk more about the first bit.

Don't waste your time on a Tory stooge!

[Adrian Hollister]

Don't waste your time on a Tory stooge!

[Sherlock]

What happened to Mr Garvie? Has he been gagged by his Labour comrades?

[blackdog]

Not the stuff being stockpiled in peoples' garages.

Which probably earned almost £10k in tax revenue.

Well, weeks maybe (and after the end of the financial year)! Seriously, what were and are the government thinking issuing a fuel warning now? What good would it do?

Petrol sales were up 172%, diesel 77%. So they sold almost 3 days worth of petrol and less than two day's worth of diesel - and the union have to give seven days notice before they strike. Duh!

The biggest beneficiaries are probably the shops selling petrol cans.

[Dodgys smarter b...]

Seems to me the Government have not been too clever here.

Now excuse me, I'm off to panic buy some stamps and pasties.

[Andy Capp]

Petrol sales were up 172%, diesel 77%. So they sold almost 3 days worth of petrol and less than two day's worth of diesel - and the union have to give seven days notice before they strike. Duh!

Well 3 days worth takes through to the new financial year (my original point) and the panic buying hasn't finished yet, has it? And I take it you didn't see: "Well, weeks maybe (and after the end of the financial year)! Seriously, what were and are the government thinking issuing a fuel warning now? What good would it do?"

DUH!!!!

[Penelope]

I find it interesting that No one from the Labour party has had the honesty to criticise the union involved in the proposed strike, why ? because its UNITE. The Labour partys paymaster. They squeak on about "the goverment needs to do something" yet its a dispute between what is essentially 'their' union and the employers. If the Tory's did interveen between union and employer the howls of protest from the 'pink' benches would be deafening.

Why don't the Labourite darlings get off their butts and do something, scared maybe ??

[Sherlock]

Why don't the Labourite darlings get off their butts and do something, scared maybe ??

Tricky, isn't it? We've got a government that's doing too much (pretty much telling people to panic buy) and an opposition that's doing nothing.

On the whole I'm with the Daily Mail on this one. http://goo.gl/VQozd This Tory/Libdem government is increasingly a farce and if they'd hoped to draw attention away from their disastrous budget, as the Mail suggests, it's gone horribly wrong.

I'd worry about the desperate state of the parties in government, Penelope, and not so much about Labour who are a spent force and irrelevant in all this. Unite have far more real power than Her Majesty's opposition. Why on earth should they listen to Milliband? You're just trotting out Central Office spin.

[NORTHENDER]

This is the kind of bigoted, misinformed nonsense that we are used to, my little misspelling friend.

interveen

Have not checked but I think it's "intervene" is it not. Does not pay to criticize others spelling on a two bit forum.

[Andy Capp]

I don't think this is about parties, it is more about our current political system being in jeopardy. Big business run the country, our parties are simply a collection of 'professional parasites' who make money from it.

[Sherlock]

I don't think this is about parties, it is more about our current political system being in jeopardy. Big business run the country, our parties are simply a collection of 'professionals' who make money from it.

I think you're right - the fact that George Galloway can get himself elected suggests that there's something seriously wrong. As some commentators are pointing out, Labour probably needs to be more worried about threats from their left.

Meanwhile, this might help Penelope to calm down a little: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17558294

[Sherlock]

I don't support any of the main parties (or any party for that matter) but this horrible incident is a direct result of Francis Maude's appalling advice that we should stockpile fuel and he really should go.

http://goo.gl/BQXIt