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Embattle
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..........seems like people have started panic buying petrol again and its starting to run out in places 
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old.Mikey
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Yep tell me about it! Took me 25 minutes to get fuel today, I was empty and I needed it! I wasn't impressed!
Jack Straw / Tony Blair etc. what a bunch of WANKERS!!
Mikey out!!
Jack Straw / Tony Blair etc. what a bunch of WANKERS!!
Mikey out!!
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Embattle
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Funny enough its mainly people who don't actually need it that start the panic buying, mothers who do the school run yet only live 2 miles away etc.
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old.Morpheus
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Mikey,
It's got nothing to do with any politicians, or any of the previous fuel blockaders. The protestors have gone on record saying "we're not going to block the pumps or refineries this time", and mr fecking idiot joe public is still panic buying.
It reminds me of how the great british public, on the eve of a bank holiday, goes crazy and buys 4x the amount of bread and milk and basically packs out the supermarkets stocking up on provisions - and these days the supermarkets are OPEN ON BANK HOLIDAYS! ARGH ARGH! IDIOTS!
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It's got nothing to do with any politicians, or any of the previous fuel blockaders. The protestors have gone on record saying "we're not going to block the pumps or refineries this time", and mr fecking idiot joe public is still panic buying.
It reminds me of how the great british public, on the eve of a bank holiday, goes crazy and buys 4x the amount of bread and milk and basically packs out the supermarkets stocking up on provisions - and these days the supermarkets are OPEN ON BANK HOLIDAYS! ARGH ARGH! IDIOTS!
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stu
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Mikey
Actually, the politicians have played a pearler this time. Jack Straw has publically announced that he has "told the Emergency Services to ensure they have adequate stocks". Now, the deadline they have been given is November 14th (Morpheus, not sure where you got your information from, I heard that by 14th if there weren't some cuts they'd start taking action). So, Straw announces this now, knowing exactly what effect it will have - people will start buying. Point is, that "rush" will last 2 weeks, rather than 2 days, and therefore it will be nowhere near as bad as last time.
Basically, it's the media creating its own news. I saw a report on Sky News on Wednesday where they had some female reporter at a petrol station, and the "correspondant" at the newsdesk was blatantly trying to encourage her to convey the "frenzied queuing" that was occuring behind her - when in fact there was none. The media knows that as soon as it says "petrol crisis", people will panic buy - it's a self fulfilling prophesy.
Actually, the politicians have played a pearler this time. Jack Straw has publically announced that he has "told the Emergency Services to ensure they have adequate stocks". Now, the deadline they have been given is November 14th (Morpheus, not sure where you got your information from, I heard that by 14th if there weren't some cuts they'd start taking action). So, Straw announces this now, knowing exactly what effect it will have - people will start buying. Point is, that "rush" will last 2 weeks, rather than 2 days, and therefore it will be nowhere near as bad as last time.
Basically, it's the media creating its own news. I saw a report on Sky News on Wednesday where they had some female reporter at a petrol station, and the "correspondant" at the newsdesk was blatantly trying to encourage her to convey the "frenzied queuing" that was occuring behind her - when in fact there was none. The media knows that as soon as it says "petrol crisis", people will panic buy - it's a self fulfilling prophesy.
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old.Mikey
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I see your point. But I just want our BRITISH truck drivers etc. to stand a chance of making a living. I'm fortunate to have a nice job in IT, so it doesn't affect me like them. Tax foreign truck drivers for using British roads etc. to me sounds like a resonable idea.
I fully agree that there is a limit to the blockades, when it starts affecting the emergency services and peoples livelyhoods it has then gone too far.
The reason I don't like the politicians over this is because they could have handled it better.
Mikey out!!
I fully agree that there is a limit to the blockades, when it starts affecting the emergency services and peoples livelyhoods it has then gone too far.
The reason I don't like the politicians over this is because they could have handled it better.
Mikey out!!
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stu
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We're all European now tho
I would go into more detail, but I'm off home. Later.
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Embattle
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Did you know that all/most of the top ten haulage all made record profits last year?
What most people don't see is the fact that Truckers get quite a few tax breaks already, as a women on a talk show who phoned in said.