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Tanker Drivers Dispute.

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9171485/Is-Ed-Miliband-for-or-against-a-fuel-crisis.html  The Daily Telegraph, doing what the Daily Telegraph does best. Creating a scaremongering headline to suit its own political agenda, and to divert attention away from the real (and embarrassing) issues. The question is not whether anyone is for or against a fuel crisis. No one in their right mind (except maybe Francis Maude) wishes to see un necessary panic buying, the prospect of empty petrol sta tions, rationing of scarce petrol, essential services starved of fuel and non deliveries of supplies to shops and supermarkets. The question is of course, an industrial dispute between workers and employers which in the end must be resolved between the parties concerned with or without the assistance of ACAS. Certainly the mischievous "assistance" of The Daily Telegraph, Francis Maude, David Cameron and George Osborne is neither helpful nor warranted. The f...

Hypocrisy from the right.

Held-ransom-1-000-tanker-drivers-Petrol-stations-face-closure-half-unions-members-vote-strike.html#comments "Held to ransom by 1,000 tanker drivers." The usual hysterical headlines from at least one part of the media. THE BANKERS AND THE FINANCIAL SPECULATORS CAN AND DO, HOLD THE COUNTRY TO RANSOM TIME AFTER TIME, AND NOBODY SAYS A WORD! AS SOON AS PEOPLE, IN ANY FIELD, TAKE A STAND THE RABID RIGHT COME CRAWLING OUT OF THE WOODWORK WITH THE USUAL "SACK THE WORKERS" RANT.