Comment posted on Who guessed the real point of the ‘jerry can’ fuel panic? by Malcolm Kirk
One minute you accuse politicians of being as thick as two short planks – then you hail them as devious conniving clever dicks. Which ? ? ? BTW – nice one Tony !
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- Happy to let you all know that we have just ordered home heating oil – 9p cheaper than previous and got diesel at Tesco Oban yesterday 5p cheaper than previous – plus a 5p per litre voucher for spending a certain amount on groceries – a win win situation.
Recent comments by Malcolm Kirk
- First Minister’s choice not to condemn mob behaviour proves Farage point
Farage was wrong to use the expression just as everyone else is. The Fascists and Communists murdered thousands of decent people just as the Islamists are doing today. So what’s changed. What’s changed is that we are now well aware of what happens in the rest of the world on a day to day basis so we can pretend to try and stop the slaughter – fat chance – lets just keep it out of our country and our homes and families. Being British is good. - First Minister’s choice not to condemn mob behaviour proves Farage point
Well there’s a well biased Daily Record opinion. I would remind you that we live in a democratic country and some of us are older and definitely wiser that many of the contributers here. Your so called ‘right wing’ has been norm for many of us throughout the decades and at no time was ever considered by the masses – ‘right wing’. The country you have today was based on our vote and although politicians and Parties come and go there has always been traditional British stability . There used to be decency,honesty, fair play, a willingness to help others without the present necessity of having your name and picture on the ‘front page’. As for scrawny students – well they always grow up eventually. The use of the word ‘fascist’ refers to Hitler / Mussolini/ the opposite supposedly being Stalin. Any reference to all these heinous dictators who murdered millions as representing any party in the UK, is offensive.
I would like to see a survey where the interviewer offers up a map of the world and asks the question – ‘ In which of all these countries would you prefer to live ” Think about it ! - First Minister’s choice not to condemn mob behaviour proves Farage point
You certainly have spent a lot of time scrabbling about in a sewer trying to justify you own prejudices- anyone got an equal amount of time to write similar, or more even, about the SNP and their wonderful MSP’s ‘deviations’ and ‘mistruths’ - First Minister’s choice not to condemn mob behaviour proves Farage point
An excellent summary of the present situation – we need some clear speaking politicians, and like him or not, good old Nigel is all of that. - First Minister’s choice not to condemn mob behaviour proves Farage point
Just discovered in a Sunday Herald article that they would do away with the Scottish Parliament. !
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Hmmmmmm! Indeed. Some people see conspiracy everywhere. I seem to remember that tanker drivers were threatening to strike and hoping to bring the country to a standstill. The advice to keep your tank full and maybe fill a jerrycan was sound. Had the strike gone ahead, forward planning like that suggested would have minimised disruption.
The fact that people panicked is more a comment on our society, I feel. The result of the overbearing, interfering, nannying government of the past decade and more has been to create a populace unable to think for itself or for us to accept any responsibility as indiviiduals for our own behaviour. A nation of sheep, brought to its knees by the ‘party of the people’.
I don’t know where all that came from, I haven’t even got a soapbox.
I feel better now. 
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One things for sure…as oil prices drop, it is not reflected at the pump with either the same haste…or in the long run on par with the price before a peak.
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Karl,
Given high prices at the pump maximise HMRC tax revenues, it is actually not in the governments interest to do anything about them. After all, it’s only the public who are being hurt.
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We understand from our expert source that:
‘The fuel price panic provided approximately £1,296,311,000 in early tax revenue to the government. Timed as it was, effectively 4 weeks of fuel were sold in the week before the end of a VAT quarter.
‘And also, before the price of Brent Crude dropped. I notice the relaxation has not made its way to the pumps yet.’
This can be read alongside Tony Gill’s (rational – but this is politics) comment above – and Karl Hughes’s observations on pump prices.
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Happy to let you all know that we have just ordered home heating oil – 9p cheaper than previous and got diesel at Tesco Oban yesterday 5p cheaper than previous – plus a 5p per litre voucher for spending a certain amount on groceries – a win win situation.
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An interesting thought but VAT period ends would be different for every fuel station so not an immediate hit as you suggest. However I would suggest another reason, it was just before the end of a financial qtr where it was touch and go if we would have negative growth or not, by stimulating a petrol spending spree it could have just had the potential to keep growth positive and prevent an announcement of return to recession. In the end it appears it wasn’t quite enough though compelete financial analysis for that qtr has not yet been completed so we wait to see for definite!
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This is a very pertinent point. Our source was talking about the financial quarter and it is our mistake that this did not feature in the report. Thank you.
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One minute you accuse politicians of being as thick as two short planks – then you hail them as devious conniving clever dicks. Which ? ? ? BTW – nice one Tony !
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1. Duty’s going up again soon, isn’t it?
2. The petrol panic caused a big spike in demand but I don’t think it actually increased consumption. My local garage was lovely and peaceful for days after the stupid happened.
3. Correlation does not imply causation. Is there actual evidence that this was a conscious decision on the part of the government, or was it an unintended consequence of something else?
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