Petrol Threat To Cons Chances

Generali

Moby wrote: »

You know those types of stories can be found everywhere and apply to anyone...I was talking about the 'role' not the individual.

Let's be frank, you're wrong.

You can squirm as much as you like but you're wrong.

grizzly1911

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Days of Florence Nightingale are well gone. The funniest story 've heard. Is one who was off on long term sick for stress. A matron at the hospital booked a driving a lesson, and was picked up by the nurse who was her instructor!

There are rogues in all sorts of positions.

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Heres the petrol article : Soaring Petrol Threat

http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/01/25/new-uk-fuel-price-rises-are-imminent/

It's not all bad news:-

new HMRC figures show the impact of high petrol prices on fuel sales overall for 2012. Petrol sales sank -3.9% overall (down 756 million litres)

:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

DecentLivingWage

how on earth is that good news? Osborne needs petrol sales to Grow !

robmatic

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

how on earth is that good news? Osborne needs petrol sales to Grow !

Why does he need petrol sales to grow?

ess0two

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Youve misunderstood - the companies arent putting their prices up because they want to, they actually DONT want to - it's Osbornes mess of the economy and currency markets - he's made the pound weaker against the dollar-which we buy petrol in. as Both the eurozone and the US now have growth because they changed to Plan B , leaving poor little britain scrabbling at the bottom of the pile. One of the only economies not growing now (Ireland Portugal US even France are on the turn and others too)

We buy crude oil here,not petrol.

FWIW the UK has far too much Petrol capacity.

thor

A._Badger wrote: »

And his opinion was worth what his opinions usually are. Nothing.

You, meanwhile, need to get that chip on your shoulder seen to. Cameron may be a useless, arrogant fool - but he is a useless, arrogant fool because he is a useless, arrogant fool - not because of his background, which, like a good class warrior, is all you seem able to see.

So much for an Oxford education. Clearly, the old place isn't what it was.

Are you implying that politicians are useless these days? The standard of MPs past and present has not changed as far as I am concerned. They have always been rubbish so why the indignation?
It's just the way it is.

thor

Wookster wrote: »

Fuel goes up under Labour = redistribution / taxing the rich / sorting out the environment.
Fuel goes up under Conservative = thieving b@st@rds.

See the logic?

That's radio Labour.

Care to explain why your mob brought in the fuel duty escalator in the first place?
When fuel went up while labour were in power they were hounderd to hell and back even in instances when it was not the tax increasing. Of course it suited the tories to condemn them at the time. Case of radio CONservatives?

A._Badger

thor wrote: »

Are you implying that politicians are useless these days? The standard of MPs past and present has not changed as far as I am concerned. They have always been rubbish so why the indignation?
It's just the way it is.

I'm not implying it. I'm stating it as a fact. Whether they are better or worse than before is a moot point but what is undeniable is that in the past they at least had some level of support. This is now fast dwindling, so by what right do these jackasses seek to rule us?

A._Badger

thor wrote: »

Care to explain why your mob brought in the fuel duty escalator in the first place?
When fuel went up while labour were in power they were hounderd to hell and back even in instances when it was not the tax increasing. Of course it suited the tories to condemn them at the time. Case of radio CONservatives?

According to Treasury figures from November 2012, had Labour remained in power and kept up its 'let's play tree-huggers' facade, petrol would now be 10p per litre more expensive than it is under the Coalition.

So, please, spare us the party political broadcasts. They are all as bad as each other and the dreary rosette-waving rhetoric is just insulting people's intelligence.