Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,027
Bob Whysman wrote:Does narrow boating make you ravenous then Button?
No, no, I was just trying to think outside the box, reducing demand rather than increasing supply! Mind you, two can play at the images game - try this:
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,921
Tesco Kidsgrove.
Shelves full BUT road at standstill with queue for petrol/diesel. Tank full of red diesel @ 80p/l. ✔️
The Who on sound system.
'We won't get fueled again'?
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
How I Wrote Elastic Man- Registered: 5 Dec 2020
- Posts: 105
https://roadstars.mercedes-benz-trucks.com/en_GB/magazine/2016/october/disappearing-drivers-why-the-uk-desperately-needs-more-truckers.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/25/lorry-driver-shortage-christmas-deliveries-road-haulage-association
The shortage of drivers has been around for years. Which suggests foreign drivers couldn´t really have been responsible for keeping wages down. Training costs and poor working conditions appear to have been the main factors a few years back. Covid and brexit has made the situation worse
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Is that the same Gavin Esler (who has been Chancellor of Kent Uni since 2014, present salary £200K+) whose last book was How Britain Ends and who can't be bothered to read any German newspapers?
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Captain Haddock wrote:Is that the same Gavin Esler (who has been Chancellor of Kent Uni since 2014, present salary £200K+) whose last book was How Britain Ends and who can't be bothered to read any German newspapers?
Possibly but that doesn't have anything to do with the comparisons being made, does it? It's easy to paint half a pen picture of someone. I could start with you perhaps...
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,932
Button wrote:No, no, I was just trying to think outside the box, reducing demand rather than increasing supply! Mind you, two can play at the images game - try this:
Looks like the buses are now being affected, this was the 08.25 this morning!
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
Does Gavin Esler actually have any friends? Anywhere?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
It’s a long time since any post on this thread had any relevance to the thread title. Isn’t it time to knock it on the head?
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,796
Pablo wrote:It’s a long time since any post on this thread had any relevance to the thread title. Isn’t it time to knock it on the head?
Yes but the never give up with an argument brigade, they call it debate, will not accept the majority decision or result.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Jan Higgins wrote:Yes but the never give up with an argument brigade, they call it debate, will not accept the majority decision or result.
Quite possibly the most infantile response I've read on this forum, and that is saying something. I couldn't care less whether you feel it's an appropriate subject but the decline in our economic well being becomes more apparently daily. That alone makes it worthy of continuing debate.
Sure, the decision has been made but how long will it take before the in denial brigade begin to accept the consequences? Tell me, Jan, what are the things that the EU made us 'say and think' (I quote one of your earlier posts) that you now feel liberated from?
Has anyone wondered why Northern Ireland had no shortage of CO2 and doesn't have a fuel shortage?
These sunlit uplands are just wonderful, aren't they?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,796
I am quite happy to be called to be "infantile" by someone like yourself Ray whose posts are now hardly worth the effort of reading because you are so blinkered.
BTW the perceived "fuel shortage" has been caused by people panic buying rather than a lack of the stuff.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
The media created the fuel shortage so the media could report on the fuel shortage.
If you want to know who in your area still takes newspapers or TV news seriously, carry a camping chair and a knowing smile to your local fuel station and watch the show.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Jan Higgins wrote:I am quite happy to be called to be "infantile" by someone like yourself Ray whose posts are now hardly worth the effort of reading because you are so blinkered.
BTW the perceived "fuel shortage" has been caused by people panic buying rather than a lack of the stuff.
I didn't say you were infantile, I said your response was infantile. If my posts are so blinkered then I'm sure you'll be delighted to answer some of the direct questions I have asked over many months on the subject of Brexit. Hitherto, you have studiously ignored them.
Shall I start to list them out now? Oh no - the debate is now over.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,796
You can list them as much as you like and get as angry as you like I am past caring.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Brexit is far from done. And that's not me saying it, it's the government with its endless moaning about the Northern Ireland Protocol. Of course, the government never want Brexit to end as when it does, it becomes obvious how little it has delivered - hence the need to keep it in a perpetual state of 'them v us'.
I do think it will soon be overtaken by events mind you, with inflation set to dominate the agenda in the near future.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Pablo wrote:It’s a long time since any post on this thread had any relevance to the thread title. Isn’t it time to knock it on the head?
Despite the thread being way past ‘it’s my view date’ Pablo, there will always be someone who likes to pontificate, much like the barrack room lawyers in the forces.
Most knowledgeable individuals would smile and nod their heads, as regardless of the views being put forward they knew that the outcome would still remain the same.
Whether Brexit will be good or bad for the U.K. in the long term and indeed for the EU is currently just supposition and continuing the debate in what is now becoming a rather confused fashion, I agree, serves no real purpose.
The migrants are arriving daily to grasp utopia and perhaps some who may find being part of the EU more attractive, should grasp the opportunity to buy their dinghies at favourable prices to make their escape.
Not going to happen of course, as in real world they know which side their bread is buttered but:
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Would that we had someone of his honesty and calibre at the helm of little England.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
I'm certain Drakeford would appreciate your advocacy, RH. If you write to him, he might even send you a complimentary Blue Peter face-mask and permission to enter a Welsh pub.
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