It's all you needed to know 10 years ago, but every time they dangle a nice juicy looking carrot and the stupid people in the UK fall over themselves to vote labour ...yet again. It doesn't matter that they don't deliver on promises; voters are like goldfish with their 10 second memory.
On the other hand, this current instalment appear to be doing everything they can to be voted into the shadow cabinet. Kind of like reverse electioneering
I heard it mentioned that brown has so far spent more on spin doctors than tony. He sure needs it; the 'financial genius' he was hailed as (by some) when occupying no11 seems to have evaporated. Leaving behind a more uncharismatic man you could not find. The man is a walking vacuum made all the more obvious by his position as pm, and the sooner this lot are consigned to the political rubbish tip and labelled for all time as an abject failure, the better.
Re: the price of oil...
from petrolprices.com
UK Petrol Prices for Monday 28th Apr 2008 (pence per litre):
--------------ave----------min---------max
Unleaded:-----110.0p------104.9p------119.9p
Diesel:--------120.2p------109.9p------132.9p
LRP:----------115.0p------108.9p------120.9p
Super:--------116.8p------107.9p------126.9p
LPG:----------56.7p-------48.9p-------59.9p
It's already the case that one of our largest hauliers Eddie Stobart has had to relocate to europe because he cannot compete when having to endure uk fuel prices. Good eh?
Sad fact is everybody is loosing out with this government and will continue to do so. Striking oil refinery workers are just another symptom of the deeper malaise that is labour.