Panic Buying At Petrol Stations?

[RollingJ 2,041]

Back on topic - sort of - why did those idiots in the BBC story think a mortar tanker was carrying petrol? - and follow it god knows how many miles????

[Padders 2,866]

19 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

Back on topic - sort of - why did those idiots in the BBC story think a mortar tanker was carrying petrol? - and follow it god knows how many miles????

Probably the same lot who followed a Muck cart, cus they thought it was a Wedding...

[RollingJ 2,041]

Just now, Padders said:

Probably the same lot who followed a Muck cart, cus they thought it was a Wedding...

huh - not heard of that one, but they must have been even dimmer.

[The_DADDY 3,475]

1 minute ago, RollingJ said:

huh - not heard of that one, but they must have been even dimmer.

It's an old saying

"Followed a muck cart thinking its a wedding"

30 minutes ago, steved32 said:

Sounds awful in the Tory heartlands of the South East... de dums!

 

Hope the penny drops about the fraudster, fornicator foolish pretender who thinks he's a leader.

 

Utter disaster.

But he IS the leader and I don't expect that to change any time soon. 

[hackey lad 3,979]

1 minute ago, The_DADDY said:

It's an old saying

"Followed a muck cart thinking its a wedding"

Me mam says Followed a muck cart thinking it was a funeral 

[RollingJ 2,041]

Just now, The_DADDY said:

It's an old saying

"Followed a muck cart thinking its a wedding"

Ok - I'll take your word for it. 🙂 I 'm old, but never heard that - until now

1 minute ago, hackey lad said:

Me mam says Followed a muck cart thinking it was a funeral 

Even weirder.

[PRESLEY 1,229]

Just seen Boris sherking the blame on the supply situation,  and playing it all down, is everything a joke to him,  what a real idiot this country has copped for, 

[ECCOnoob 1,044]

17 minutes ago, PRESLEY said:

Just seen Boris sherking the blame on the supply situation,  and playing it all down, is everything a joke to him,  what a real idiot this country has copped for, 

The electorate voted to leave the EU. Parliament voted to set the wheels in motion to withdraw and started the clock. Parliament agreed the terms and we left as agreed by both sides of the house.   Now companies, suppliers, manufacturers, diatributors have known we were leaving for 2 years on top of an already well established dwindling number of HGV drivers well before brexit even came into force have some responsibility.....

 

He does right to play down considering the media's repeated hysterical reporting and selective imagery of cars queuing for miles desperate to get the last drops have some responsibility......

 

Moronic members of the public desperately chasing anything that looks remotely like a fuel tanker or filling up massive amounts which they didn't need have some responsibility.....

 

....But oh yes let's just play the simplistic option and blame everything on Boris as per usual 🙄.  Pull your head out of the sand.

Edited October 5, 2021 by ECCOnoob

[PRESLEY 1,229]

2 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

The electorate voted to leave the EU. Parliament voted to set the wheels in motion to withdraw and started the clock. Parliament agreed the terms and we left as agreed by both sides of the house.   Now companies, suppliers, manufacturers, diatributors have known we were leaving for 2 years on top of an already well established dwindling number of HGV drivers well before brexit even came into force responsibility.

 

He does right to play down considering the media's repeated hysterical reporting and selective imagery of cars queuing for miles desperate to get the last drops a avail so have some responsibility.

 

Moronic members of the public desperately chasing anything that looks remotely like a fuel tanker or filling up massive amounts which they didn't need have some responsibility.....

 

....But oh yes let's just play the simplistic option and blame everything on Boris as per usual 🙄.  Pull your head out of the sand.

Just as I expected, a Typical deluded conservative in denial statement  when the Plank leader gets it all wrong as per,   If my head was in the sand  I would rather keep it there rather  than watch this Planks  blunders every day Me and the majority of this country are not wrong about this Plank. 

14 minutes ago, West 77 said:

Boris was most certainly not to blame for the panic buying of fuel at petrol stations.  The media were to blame.

Another Con in denial, seriously you lot can't see the forest for the trees.  

[L00b 441]

47 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

The electorate voted to leave the EU. Parliament voted to set the wheels in motion to withdraw and started the clock. Parliament agreed the terms and we left as agreed by both sides of the house.   Now companies, suppliers, manufacturers, diatributors have known we were leaving for 2 years on top of an already well established dwindling number of HGV drivers well before brexit even came into force have some responsibility.....

(…)

Companies, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors had known the UK was leaving for much longer than 2 years. Technically, they’d known (should have known) from the day Theresa May deposited the Art.50 notice in March 2017, because that was the no-return event.

But companies, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors did not know how the UK was leaving, until the TCA was signed just before Christmas 2020, entering into force a week later later on 01/01/21.
 

Until then, all they’d known for sure, was the Withdrawal Agreement started on 01/02/20 to govern the transition period until year end, and which effectively kept everything as it had been under EU membership.

 

Less rewriting of history, please. Some of us are keeping notes.

 

After that, some companies, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors had planned for worst (no deal Brexit), others hadn’t. The EU notices to stakeholders were bureaucratically exacting, but the British government messaging was filtering heavily, with ‘nothing will change’ PR whilst negotiating everything in secret without consultations.

 

And then some of the planning companies, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors decided to implement the plans early (as in, earlier than Xmas or New Year’s Eve 2020), others didn’t. That was a business call down to situational awareness, resourcing and attitude to risk, in each case.
 

And then you can be sure that very few, amongst even the small subset of forward-planning ones, saw Covid coming.
 

I wonder how many are risk-planning the UK supply logjam that is currently rippling up the chains globally, towards the sources.

Edited October 5, 2021 by L00b

[PRESLEY 1,229]

1 hour ago, West 77 said:

It's a fact that as a consequence of media scaremongering too many motorists bought more petrol and diesel than they normally do which resulted in petrol stations needing more deliveries than they normally need in a week which meant there was a temporary situation where the supply of fuel at petrol stations was lower than the demand for fuel at petrol stations.  Everything is back to normal now because the demand for fuel at petrol stations is lower than the supply of fuel at petrol stations.  Nothing at all to do with trees in a forest but everything to do with the law of supply and demand.

I agree and am aware of the panic buying caused by the media but Boris doesn't have clean hands infact his fingers are in most of the country problem pies.

[Delbow 701]

2 hours ago, L00b said:

Companies, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors had known the UK was leaving for much longer than 2 years. Technically, they’d known (should have known) from the day Theresa May deposited the Art.50 notice in March 2017, because that was the no-return event.

But companies, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors did not know how the UK was leaving, until the TCA was signed just before Christmas 2020, entering into force a week later later on 01/01/21.
 

Until then, all they’d known for sure, was the Withdrawal Agreement started on 01/02/20 to govern the transition period until year end, and which effectively kept everything as it had been under EU membership.

 

Less rewriting of history, please. Some of us are keeping notes.

 

After that, some companies, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors had planned for worst (no deal Brexit), others hadn’t. The EU notices to stakeholders were bureaucratically exacting, but the British government messaging was filtering heavily, with ‘nothing will change’ PR whilst negotiating everything in secret without consultations.

 

And then some of the planning companies, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors decided to implement the plans early (as in, earlier than Xmas or New Year’s Eve 2020), others didn’t. That was a business call down to situational awareness, resourcing and attitude to risk, in each case.
 

And then you can be sure that very few, amongst even the small subset of forward-planning ones, saw Covid coming.
 

I wonder how many are risk-planning the UK supply logjam that is currently rippling up the chains globally, towards the sources.

This is a big part of the problem. Someone left it until the last minute to iron out the details. Let's play 'Guess Who'. Does your person have 6 children by as many mothers?