Yep. Can’t help but think it’s just another distraction from the fuel crisis and who is really to blame for it.
Most of us think that we have legitimate reasons to use our cars.
‘I was empty, I’m not panic-buying’: in the petrol queue on the North Circular
Inside lane of one of the UK’s busiest roads is full of frustrated motorists waiting for a turn at the pumpwww.google.co.uk
My post wasn’t directed at you particularly - rather the pretty lazy references to “panic buyers” that are all over the place, and blaming them (along with the media and that bloke from the RHA) for the crisis.
If you look at a queue of cars waiting at a petrol station, how do you decide which are “panic buyers” and which are “legitimate”? And if a “legitimate buyer” is panicking slightly because they are in the red, does that make them a panic buyer?
The attached article is interesting. As far as I can see no one in the queue admits to being a panic buyer. No one on this board who admits they’ve filled their car in the last few days will admit to being a panic buyer. Nor, I imagine, will anyone who fills their car in the coming days.
Yet loads of people are certain the panic buyers are to blame for it all.
Shocking!!
Yes. Everyone thinks they have a legitimate reason to buy petrol. It’s everyone else who is an “idiot”, “selfish”, a “panic buyer”.
Just like Maggie?
Spot on. Cat comes on here with his non stop abuse of BJ and the govt yet he cries like a baby to the mods when he gets some back. Total hypocrite. What a bitter and twisted person he truly is. Great win for Blackpool eh cat?
Maggie got through by being more manly than the men. Spitting Image got it just right.
As I said on another thread, I literally was behind a woman in a Micra who bought £4 of petrol. The epitome of needless fuel buying. I went over to Blackpool on Saturday and I'll be going to Hull tomorrow on the same tank. Might need to fill up on Wednesday. Is that OK?‘I was empty, I’m not panic-buying’: in the petrol queue on the North Circular
Inside lane of one of the UK’s busiest roads is full of frustrated motorists waiting for a turn at the pump
My post wasn’t directed at you particularly - rather the pretty lazy references to “panic buyers” that are all over the place, and blaming them (along with the media and that bloke from the RHA) for the crisis.
If you look at a queue of cars waiting at a petrol station, how do you decide which are “panic buyers” and which are “legitimate”? And if a “legitimate buyer” is panicking slightly because they are in the red, does that make them a panic buyer?
The attached article is interesting. As far as I can see no one in the queue admits to being a panic buyer. No one on this board who admits they’ve filled their car in the last few days will admit to being a panic buyer. Nor, I imagine, will anyone who fills their car in the coming days.
Yet loads of people are certain the panic buyers are to blame for it all.
You really need to think before you post. When was the the last time we had a proper Labour Government? If you want to include the Blair government I'll begrudgingly agree to that.
Dunno. Best ask the Avftt Tribunal how they judge what’s a legitimate purchase and what isn’t.
People are terrified of people who tell it like it is especially when it the truth. Go girl!!
Another side of Nye Beven:
And who's on this tribunal?
It's true. Bevan also made a costly mistake when he made a speech in the 1950s dismissing TV as a here today, gone tomorrow fad. But look, politicians aren't infallible. Judge them on the good things they do rather than the retrospective mistakes they make. History still comes out on Bevan's side, thankfully
Absolutely correct. I have a lot of respect for the way that Angela Rayner has achieved high office from a low start. But, Parliament still has old ways and those are of the bourgeois variety. It's a game and one that Rayner needs to win. She's made a mistake and it might cost the Party
Haha, that's bollocks, Bevan didn't support Communism at all which is what Hastings is desperately grasping at.
No, the fuel computers lie as they're based on the load on the engine at that exact moment, I wouldn't risk one under 70ish to be honest.
No they're not. But, I can't call out your post. It's an obvious point.
I’m not sure that reference helps Labour?
Yes, I agree. It's very unusual for a politician to speak from the heart these days. And moreover to tell it how it is. Interestingly, I see nobody trying to argue that Blo Jo is not what she called him, which says a lot. Sometimes the truth hurts. And if the Borisette's can't take it then should they be classed as 'snowflakes' (a word they like to use a lot)?
More probs for Starmer tonight as a Shadow Cabinet member has resigned penning a letter read out at conference stating Keir “ has split the party instead of his promise to unite it.”
I'd agree with most of that curryman. Starmer does seem a half decent guy. He just lacks a bit of charisma and seems a bit negative, i.e criticising others but struggling to put across his own ideas. Which is surprising given he's a barrister. I think he's got his work cut out trying to unite the Labour Party though. It's almost like they have a death wish and don't want to get elected.
You both must have a long, long, long memory.
Nah. It was part of my studies at Uni when comparing Keynesian economics against Supply side doctrine.
I think the fact it’s been 40 odd years tells it’s own story really. To his credit Sir Kier is trying to move his party to just left of centre, where it will be electable..,, my guess he’s a very frustrated leader ... the Tories leave the goal wide open, without even a keeper in sight and they still fcuk it up. AR hasn’t got to where she is by being stupid, she made a mistake (we all do) why the hell couldn’t she show more class by simply apologising... would have made BJ look even worse.
If they aren’t “ panic buyers” it’s a hell of a coincidence that they have all run out of fuel at the same time.‘I was empty, I’m not panic-buying’: in the petrol queue on the North Circular
Inside lane of one of the UK’s busiest roads is full of frustrated motorists waiting for a turn at the pump
My post wasn’t directed at you particularly - rather the pretty lazy references to “panic buyers” that are all over the place, and blaming them (along with the media and that bloke from the RHA) for the crisis.
If you look at a queue of cars waiting at a petrol station, how do you decide which are “panic buyers” and which are “legitimate”? And if a “legitimate buyer” is panicking slightly because they are in the red, does that make them a panic buyer?
The attached article is interesting. As far as I can see no one in the queue admits to being a panic buyer. No one on this board who admits they’ve filled their car in the last few days will admit to being a panic buyer. Nor, I imagine, will anyone who fills their car in the coming days.
Yet loads of people are certain the panic buyers are to blame for it all.
Or maybe, taking a long view in that the tram will provide transport so the housing will follow.
It's 500 yards through a commercial area.
Or maybe they are just people who have jobs to get to; kids to take to school; parents to take to hospital? Who think it’d be a bit dumb, given the shortage of petrol actually available in the stations, to wait until they have no petrol at all before trying to buy some?
The answer to your question No.
I will accept your points and questions if you will answer just one for me. Have the people you use as examples never done those things before? And if the answer is yes, how come we don’t have the same queues permanently? Presumably those people need roughly the same amount of fuel week in week out? Sorry I got carried away, that is three questions and I only asked for one.
It's funny, because actually, Cat said he's coming round to Bojo and then 20s popped up and said, on reflection, he wish he'd voted for Michael Foot all those years ago.
And yet they've elected two women as party leaders. Just remind me again how many women Labour have elected as leaders?
So it's convenient for you to not have then?
