Should the Dear Leader be encouraging panic buying?

I have to say the multi millionaire cabinet have shown themselves to be a bunch of incompetent fools, obviously the Eaton education system doesn't include common sense?
 
Repta said:
I have yet to see a single queue at any stations (10+), must mean people in NI are smarter than on the mainland..... :p
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Ive not seen any queues up here tbh. And I have passed loads of petrol stations. I filled my tank yesterday with no q, and this was at half 5. I wasn't panic buying, and only had about 60 miles left in the tank.

Repta said:
Much more likely :D
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Hehe. :D
 
"Today, we put on notice all nations that continue to import petroleum or petroleum products from Iran that they have three months to significantly reduce those purchases or risk the imposition of severe sanctions on their financial institutions." Senator Bob Menendez, who co-authored the sanctions legislation, told the Associated Press. (The Grauniad)
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It may be the case that the Government is simply trying to condition the British public to the consequences of a US sanctioned Israeli attack on Iran and the inevitable following disruption to oil supplies.


Personally, I suspect that it is just that the Tories are incompetent and were more interested in a political attack on New Labour.
 
TJM said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...der-what-do-this-lot-know-about-anything.html

The Tories started the panic buying on purpose.

How nice to have a government that thinks everyone is a mug.
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What I think is really interesting about this is that Thatcher stockpiled coal on an industrial scale, but Cameron is even more right-wing than her so that would have been too much like government interference. Instead he promoted a Big Society approach to stockpiling petrol, with entirely predictable consequences.
 
TJM said:
The Tories started the panic buying on purpose.

How nice to have a government that thinks everyone is a mug.
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Rubbish, the public have no one else to blame but themselves. None of us ever listen to politicians, why the hell are we listening to them now??? :confused:
 
The Government did not force people into panic buying. The idiots caused the problems themselves. No personal responsibilities now a days.
 
robgmun said:
Rubbish, the public have no one else to blame but themselves. None of us ever listen to politicians, why the hell are we listening to them now??? :confused:
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Duke said:
The Government did not force people into panic buying. The idiots caused the problems themselves. No personal responsibilities now a days.
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The politicians should have known exactly the impact their words would have have - it was obvious to me what would happen the moment I read what they had said. The public's response was totally predictable, therefore I blame the politicians.
 
clv101 said:
The politicians should have known exactly the impact their words would have have - it was obvious to me what would happen the moment I read what they had said. The public's response was totally predictable, therefore I blame the politicians.
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Exactly, politicians know there is what they say, which is largely irrelevant except when it comes to the law, and what message they give. The message is much more important in influencing people's behaviour and the message was "panic buy".
 
scorza said:
Exactly, politicians know there is what they say, which is largely irrelevant except when it comes to the law, and what message they give. The message is much more important in influencing people's behaviour and the message was "panic buy".
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Then i go back to my original post....
 
Reprise of the "Thatcher moment"

When I first heard Francis Maude’s suggestion on Sky News that we might all stock up “a bit of extra fuel with a jerry can in the garage”, I did not, I must admit, panic. His remark seemed a little unwise – and you could hear, by the way he immediately began to qualify it, that he thought so too – but I let it pass.

What I was forgetting is that ministerial words about an immediate problem with basics like fuel or food is the only sort of ministerial statement which people believe. It was like when Edwina Currie, the then junior health minister, said in 1988 that most egg production was infected with salmonella. People stopped buying eggs. After Mr Maude spoke, they swarmed to the petrol pumps.

But now that I have heard the Conservatives’ private explanation, which is being handed down to constituency associations by MPs, I begin to feel angry.

The private message is as follows. “This is our Thatcher moment. In order to defeat the coming miners’ strike, she stockpiled coal. When the strike came, she weathered it, and the Labour Party, tarred by the strike, was humiliated. In order to defeat the coming fuel drivers’ strike, we want supplies of petrol stockpiled. Then, if the strike comes, we will weather it, and Labour, in hock to the Unite union, will be blamed.” (The Torygraph)
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I do hope that when the Tory fan-boys claim that Cameron & Maude set out to panic the electorate, they think of this report in the Torygraph.

As to Maude, I hope that he gets what he so richly deserves before too long - the sack.

I expect that Cameron will now try to manipulate an excuse for going to war and then reintroduce the Poll Tax before getting a knife between the shoulder-blades from the Tory "Men in Grey"
 
I want to buy the Torygraph! Sound like my kind of paper, but i can never find it in the Supermarket! Where can i find this paper??
 
I despise this angle that politicians can only say things that only the least intelligent of society can follow, it along with everything else that's being dumbed down or not being push upward is fuelling Britain's race to the bottom.

Ignorance and lack of personal responsibility is festering and it needs to be stamped out. Mr Cameron needs to say "Jerry cans and a burning stoves in every home".
 
stockhausen said:
Ever heard of Google you unimaginative luddite :confused:
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Aren't you supposed to call it oogle or boogle or some other imaginative name, after all it's a rich company that you probably despise so you will have to think of a 'witty' name for it. Or has no one invented a 'funny' name for you to copy yet?
 
Em3bbs said:
Aren't you supposed to call it oogle or boogle or some other imaginative name, after all it's a rich company that you probably despise so you will have to think of a 'witty' name for it. Or has no one invented a 'funny' name for you to copy yet?
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stockhausen is never original. 'Grauniad' is a term from Private Eye.
 
Unite leader Len McCluskey said:
We call on the government to come clean on its whole approach to this dispute … Over the last few days its every move has been designed to whip up unnecessary tension at the expense of the public. Ministers knew all along that a strike could not possibly be less than seven days away even were it to be called – that is the law. Yet they panicked the nation all the way to the petrol pumps because they imagined it would boost them in the polls.
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Cameron and his chums are desperate to deflect attention from their "Budget for the rich", "Dinner for donations" and the "Pasty fiasco" and onto New Labour, even if this means causing panic and bringing the country to a halt.

I understand that Murdoch's Sunday Times will carry a claim that Cameron was "economical with the actualité" over his involvement with donors, suggesting a "Tory cover-up". How bitter is the result when lovers part - poor Pasty Dave, will he ever spend another Christmas with Rebekah & Charlie?
 
It got silly where I live, not big ques but all the fuel station were busy and decided to go home on reserve and go in search late at night. Friday was worrisome, I own a home care company and we nearly to the point of prioritising clients as our carers were driving round town trying to find fuel stations with fuel.

Useless Social Services had had a contigency plan for their own council run home carers who cold access reserve fuels supplies. When I asked them what provision do you have for private companies who contract for you their answer was nothing.
 
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