Seil Chat

Fuel strikes – the fastest route to anarchy

How finely balanced our lives are on the supply of energy. And how dangerous (this will please Spiderman) is it to allow interference of the supply of fuel?

How long is it before the trucks that deliver to the food manufacturers have no fuel? How long before the trucks cannot deliver food to the shops? How long before the computer engineer cannot get to the banking and communications computers and cannot fix them because the parts cannot be delivered? How long before cash cannot be delivered to the banks and cash machines? How long before the emergency services cannot get fuel?

How long before the father with a sick child breaks in to his neighbours house and takes the food, the medicine, the cash he needs for his child to survive.

In the year 2000 we came within days of anarchy on our streets. What lessons have been learned so that we never get that close again?

Sorry Penty

it would appear that we have still the same sorry bunch of politicians
so no change

I cant suggest a way to improve it unless you stand locally as M P but
even then it will be like making love to a hedgehog you know the rest
one pr##k working against hundreds.

Teddy

Hate to agree with you P.P but the only thing good about this strike is that it will give the spam belters a wee jolt......your house aint worth s@@t if you cant get fuel or food!!

PP, you'll worry yourself to death!

They say a strike could cost the country £50m a day. OK may be it is premature to say it will cost that immediately, but why do we let them do this to our nation? That money is needed for other things, and every one else is paying so that these protesters, blindly led by their union can get away with it.

What is wrong with stopping final salary pension schemes for workers who do not yet work for the company? Millions of other people have adapted to the idea that final salary pension schemes are a thing of the past, and now have personal pension schemes. If you're looking for a job and want a final salary pension scheme don't apply for a job with Ineos.

These striking workers, (losers, because they will be losers) should have to pay for their own strike. And any person or company suffering a loss of earnings or money as a result of a strike should be able to claim on the strikers pension fund ......until it is all gone, which won't be long.

Who ever gained from a strike, in the long run? All they do is drag us down a little further to their own level as losers.

All Wat Tyler's fault wouldn't you say PP?

And Seventh ....The lady doth protest too much - I hear that you are a member of a union and a union spokesman to boot? Why don't you share your dark secret with us?

No it wasn't Wat Tyler's fault.

That's the trouble with this country. No one ever takes responsibility for these sort of things. They always blame someone else!

At most, all we ever get is another lengthy and costly public enquiry that loses us even more, and then it blames someone else.

I am not a member of a union, just a commitee.........and I could put it on my CV and still get a job. Just cos' you Eric are a Labour sympathiser....

Ooooooh Get You Comrade Seventh!!!

Wrong on both counts I'm afraid!

Well Seventh

In Democracy its you vote that counts

In Feudalism its your count that votes

In Unions your vote counters reality

Teddy

Look Eric, being a member of the UoOP (Union of Old Pro's) is manditory in my proffesion so i have no choice....I have no intention of joining a union when I get a real job in the social work department of A&B Council, and if I went on strike now the world sales of cheroots and malt whisky would go up overnight...so I would be doing some good to the economy....all be it France.

Going back to the original statement, does anyone agree that this strike seems to have been a bit of a storm in a tea cup? Surely they wont restart the plant if there are threats of more strikes and Alex Salmond seems to think the pensions issues will soon be resolved.

Still, it gve us all something different to talk about for a few days.

I agree.

Yes strikes are the bet nior of fiesty women, but also capture the zietguiest of the moment, don't you agree Dubhsguir

If you're going to speak in "claire" english then I'd have to say:

Yes - In a classical sense it's a post-structuarlist dichotomy - On one hand the strikers are representative of the emancipation from female suffrage whereas in the broad sense the reson detre of management can be equated in a metaphorical and allegorical sense to the struggle to maintain the gender dominant role.

I find the whole juxtaposition so cathartic.

yes but it all comes down to the scottish diaspora.......and thus the catharsus you speak of leads the creation of a media svengali who uses the pensions dispute to express the zietguiest of the moment...

You weren't speaking so posh the other night when I passed you on the golf course!

And how do you manage that trick with your leg???

Don't panic buy: there are plenty of supplies, say the Government. And the result, proof if anyone needed it that no one trusts our politicians.

I didn't have a problem getting any fuel in Oban last week or at the weekend. (And no, I wasn't panic buying, just went on a long trip)