Idiot's

[redvanman]

Our country is run by idiots after listening to this weeks comments on fuel and pasties this is why it country is in the SH*T

[jno]

who were the idiots who voted them in?

[Davethedog]

No ones talking about the budget anymore though are they?

[ummmm]

The pasty thing is stupid (I don't eat them so I don't care) just like the Jaffa cake thing a few years back.

[Frank97]

If they weren't idiots they wouldn't want to be politicians.

[wiltsman]

I almost felt sorry for the Conservative and Lib Dem members of the Question Time panel on BBC1 last night trying to defend David Cameron.

I did say 'almost'!

[NOX]

Idiot's what? ;-)

I agree if 'Call me Dave' and 'Boy Blunder' haven't copped onto themselves by now they're never going to.
Nice also to see that some poor lady trying to decant petrol taking the govt's advice about storing it in cans managed to set fire to herself and is in hospital with 40% burns. No fuel anywhere around here at all, so I'm stuck and my business can't deliver things because I refused to make things worse and panic buy.
Just another happy day with a Tory Govt:)

[Sqad]

OK.

You need your car for work or you're business.

We have a Coaltion Government in and the Unions have been rubbing their hands and spoiling for a fight.

Now I ask you.........do YOU think that there will be a tanker strike? Too bloody right there will.

So how do you safeguard your petrol supplies?......You stock up...call it panic buying, call it what you will............but I would stock up.

[anneasquith]

i read that storing petrol on your domestic premises ( ie in cans ) can make your house insurance void ( in the event of a fire ) !

[Mosaic]

Anne - some poor woman has already almost killed herself by decanting petrol in the kitchen, with the cooker on.
All I can think is how very sad and avoidable.

[cazzz1975]

im dreading having to get petrol, everywhere is chock a block at the moment

dont get me started on the pasty tax, ridiculous!

[wiltsman]

I hear the Tories are now the nasty pasty party

[ummmm]

True Sqad, but they have to give 7 days notice of the intention to strike. So we're going to be in the same position next week if they do strike, A few Jerry cans is not going to keep people on the road for long.

People who only have to do the school run are panic buying. Even the ones that live close enough to walk. Even though the kids (most) break up today.

[TheOtherHalf]

Just been in the local bakery and was asked to sign a petition against the extra vat on hot pasties ??? At first I thought she said FAT on pasties. I dont eat them personally but I signed anyway. Was it just pasties then, that didnt have VAT on, if so why only them? Have theyn got nothing better to do with their time up at westminster ?

[venator]

The idiots can spell, though!

[sunny-dave]

There's always been VAT on hot take-away food - so I couldn't understand the sudden fuss about pasties.

I've just had a read of the budget proposals - apparently Greggs & the big supermarkets have been on the fiddle - claiming that their pasties are 'still warm from being baked' rather than 'heated for serving' and so avoiding VAT.

To close this loophole any food sold 'above ambient temperature' is now going to be VATable.

Which gives the ludicrous possibility that a pasty won't be VATable in summer, but will in winter ..... aaaaarrrgh

[EcclesCake]

I wonder what would happen if retailers installed microwaves after the point of sale. Customers could use them if they wanted to warm their pasty/sausage roll???

[TheOtherHalf]

Eccles, they probably wouldnt allow that due to health and safety but it sounds a good idea

[ChuckFickens]

"Which gives the ludicrous possibility that a pasty won't be VATable in summer, but will in winter ..... aaaaarrrgh"

Or even that a pasty might be VATable in one part of the country but not in another part of the country (and it may change order the next day!)