Fuel Strike

t._green · **Joined:** Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:41 am

This is absolute genius

First, increase fuel price to the highest it's ever been

Second, tell the country there might be a fuel shortage

Third, watch as motorists bring their jerry cans as well as their vehicles to fill up, The boys and girls at the treasury will surely be on champaign lunches today —Loooadsamoooney!!!!!

Just the job to disguise the news the economy had flatlined and we're in recession again, and there was me thinking the coalition didn't know what it was doing.

Kevin_Dacombe · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:36 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-yo ... e-17560534

The first victim of the created panic by the Tories and media.

Dave Summers · **Joined:** Mon May 16, 2005 5:48 pm **Location:** Elburton

...and no strike for the time being according to Unite's statement this morning.

http://www.unitetheunion.org/news__even ... anker.aspx

And to those who caused long tailbacks at the fuel stations yesterday - I bet you feel a right bunch of charlies! :lol:

mike_gss · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:46 am

I wonder how much industrial production was lost yesterday?

I've been looking at a lot of newspaper sites today. Seems like half the population were stuck in queues at garage forecourts, while the other half were home banging sanctimonious comments about sheep and morons into the "free comment" sections.

A victory for...?

... the drug companies probably, as I would guess blood pressure levels were elevated among pretty much all the population yesterday.

Greenblooded1 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:34 pm

Kevin_Dacombe wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17560534

The first victim of the created panic by the Tories and media.

Quote:

A fire service spokesman said: "Her daughter asked her mum for petrol because she had run out. The cooker was on and the fumes ignited."

Station manager Lee Smith, whose Acomb crew attended the fire, said: "The people were cooking their tea and dispensing petrol from a container to a glass jug.
"The vapour then ignited, the jug was then spilt which obviously ignited as well and the person involved in the decanting was consumed by the flames.

"Her daughter phoned 999 and was obviously extremely distressed."

mike_gss · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:55 pm

Greenblooded1 wrote:

Kevin_Dacombe wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17560534

The first victim of the created panic by the Tories and media.

Quote:

A fire service spokesman said: "Her daughter asked her mum for petrol because she had run out. The cooker was on and the fumes ignited."

Station manager Lee Smith, whose Acomb crew attended the fire, said: "The people were cooking their tea and dispensing petrol from a container to a glass jug.
"The vapour then ignited, the jug was then spilt which obviously ignited as well and the person involved in the decanting was consumed by the flames.

"Her daughter phoned 999 and was obviously extremely distressed."

Darwin Award candidate?

mike_gss · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:52 pm

Kevin_Dacombe wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17560534

The first victim of the created panic by the Tories and media.

Whatever is wrong with Maud, I don't recall him advising anyone to "pour petrol from a proper fuel container into a glass bottle over your kitchen sink when you've also got the cooker on".

Shadowknight · **Joined:** Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:38 pm

Greenblooded1 wrote:

Kevin_Dacombe wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17560534

The first victim of the created panic by the Tories and media.

Quote:

A fire service spokesman said: "Her daughter asked her mum for petrol because she had run out. The cooker was on and the fumes ignited."

Station manager Lee Smith, whose Acomb crew attended the fire, said: "The people were cooking their tea and dispensing petrol from a container to a glass jug.
"The vapour then ignited, the jug was then spilt which obviously ignited as well and the person involved in the decanting was consumed by the flames.

"Her daughter phoned 999 and was obviously extremely distressed."

Yeah, but she phoned for pizza first.

Greenblooded1 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:16 am

A joke about thick crust would not be appropriate.

Quinny · **Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:24 am

That's it. If there is a God then I'm definitely off to Hell after sniggering after that comment by GB1.

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