howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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hopefully this will deter others from doing the same, shocking story.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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As was mentioned on QT last night, If the Government says Don't Panic! what is the natural reaction to be?
Politics IS more than PR, but when PR is all you have...?
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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sadly we have got ourselves into believing that national/local media must be right because they publiced a particular story
then we get the same with national/local politicians
as usual they hype up tension(francis maude this time)
when will they all learn
poor woman very sad case
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Whats happened to common sense ?
I use a lot of fuel to get from Deal to Ashford to work every day, have I rushed in to get fuel? No! I'll wait until I need it, and if there are problems I will catch a train.
How many cars are there now sat on driveways fuel of fuel that will sit there for months or used just for the 'school run' ?
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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don't disagree scotchie, sadly a situation we got ourselves into
don't get me going on the school run lol
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Could 'Panic Buying' save us from returning to "technical recession"? One letter writer in today's Guardian has this point to make...
"Consider this scenario. A commitment in the recent budget which attracted little attention was that the UK would not go back into technical recession, which is defined as economic shrinkage in two successive quarters. In October-December there was 0.3% shrinkage, so there mustn't - at all costs - be shrinkage in January-March. These are now the last few days of March, and the government is urging road users to buy their fuel in advance, bringing forward all those April fuel purchases into the quarter which is about to end."
[the writer was Dave Bradney, credit where credit is due]
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I can't imagine that tax revenue is that instant and probably runs a month in arrears so is a bit irrelevant really but a nice conspiracy theory
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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School run, school run, school run - go on Keith, bite !!
I know of at least one person locally that drops kids off to school less than a couple of hundred yards up the road....
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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You may not be able to imagine what you say you can't imagine Paul, but can you imagine that this government is above statistical-origami?
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It is rather absurd this petrol panic when a strike date has not even been announced.
I had to fill up this morning as I am off to Westerham to see a client and my local garage was empty and had to que at Tescos.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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It is ridiculous, Maude and Cameron have created a crisis where there was not one. Unleaded in Deal this morning was £148.9 , profiteering?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i am waiting for their next bit of useful advice, yesterday it was changing by the hour.
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The government lost one of their main advisors recently, he has gone to Californiae to get the wind back in his sails and the sun in his hair. But I wonder if they miss him. My guess is they do. This past week they have shuffled from pitfall to pitfall.
It appeared that Maude had made a gaff first of all when he had that 'jerrican' moment on Sky News. But the Prime Minister said something similiar later in the day at his press conference. So they had clearly had a bit of a meeting earlier with policy written on the back of a fag packet(up 37p!!). Short in detail and long on the opportunity for chaos. it was an extraordinary thing to say...top up, top your jerrican up, keep topping up.
Presumably the thinking was to nullify the impact of a potential strike if and when it happened.
Of course following along from all this muddled thinking and muddled message, the obvious came to pass...with petrol stations selling out quick and fast, sales up 172%, and prices as Martin says there wrenching upwards.
You know that standard line that politicians say..."we've made it very clear..." the funny thing ( hilarious!) was they were saying this all day the other day. Various guys at ministerial level came on TV saying...yes you've guessed it..." we've made it very clear..."
Of course everything was far from clear and Joe Public is out there ever since queuing and emptying petrol stations and doing it as we speak!
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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You are right PaulB they were queuing at Tesco's well before 7oclock this morning, and the normally quite one in snargate street was far busier than usual, and listening to the news today one woman has already had an accident in her kitchen handling petrol.
How can they have gaffed so badly the unions have said they will do nothing over the Easter Break, they will be sitting around the table in talks.
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
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I cannot believe that people are still buying petrol today, despite the picture now being perfectly clear: (1) there is not a strike, and; (2) there will not be a strike until after Easter at the earliest. The message is now simple ...... only fill up when your tank is empty. Goodness knows what the Great British public would be like if we really did have a crisis in this country!
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Seems to have calmed down here in deepest Essex but yesterday was bad.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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crazy crazy crazy
dave come on put maude out to pastur
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