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uk petrol prices update..

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Don Seer:
they gonna shoot em?  :o lol

Don Rizzle:
don't know the details they are secret plans and with petrol set to go up to 90p a litre over the next month and tax to rise 2p a litre in september (already at 75%) i'm sure they are determined not to let britian come to stand still again

Trauma-san:

--- Quote from: Overseer on May 15, 2004, 03:28:29 AM ---hahah no trauma, they arent demonstrating with signs n shit. why didnt u look up what they did last time?

u see what happens is.. all the farmers + hauliers drive through london and on major motorways in their rigs n shit at about 4 miles per hour...

it pretty much fucks everything up... a city filled with huge trucks? lmao

they also blockade the exits for the refinement places where the petrol comes from... that leaves no new petrol getting to pumps.. then results in all the petrol stations in the country running out..

more impact than a girly sign eh? :)

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So in other words, "Civil Disobediance".  Bullshit.  They should get their asses kicked for being too bitch made to not be able to make a change without breaking the law.

Don Rizzle:
the whole country supported them, this wasn't their first avenue of protest either it was a last resort. we may have a democracy but the way i see it is that tony blair has a very autocratic leader style, in other words he is not afraid of making unpopular decisions.

Don Seer:
true true.

the way i see it..  they're trying to turn this country into a 'futuristic' one away from traditional things like farming (wheras in france famers have massive power in comparison to ours).. and putting more 'stock' in things like technology and the 'invisible' industries of money. pushing people to be academic instead of them learning a trade. kids that used to end up learning a trade now end up either working in factories doing mundane stuff or in retail.

(this isnt just labours fault)

the net result of this policy is that there are now shortages of skilled labour in this country. those tradesmen that are still in business have more work than they can handle. from what i've seen plumbers, carpenters and plasterers especially are making a killing right now. others like electricians, builders and gas engineers are doing well too.

anyways.. sympathy was with them, everybody wants the prices to be lower.. its just a bit annoying not to be able to get fuel. reminds me.. i better fill up later before prices go up!

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