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Until the French get pissed off with the current fuel prices and blockade the refineries again. Panic buying happens in France too.

Karma.

duke63 wrote:Karma.

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Some of the replies were class, Cold War Steve sent him this

To be fair, I don't think this fuel "shortage" is BREXIT related. But I'd bet any money that most of the muppets that caused it by panic buying fuel also voted for BREXIT.

From the info I was told the beginnings of the fuel shortage is because BP decided they no longer wanted to pay overtime rates to delivery drivers. So the drivers said, fair enough, we won’t do any overtime then. Thus less deliveries.

This being the multi billion pound-making BP company.

Interesting read. And very telling how we are allowing big business and Government to dictate low pay, poor working conditions and just taking too many important cogs in the wheel of the economy for granted.

I was discussing with a work colleague within the drivers/haulage industry the other day and he said people do not understand what is involved in being a fuel tanker. They have to fill the tanker at the refinery and empty it at the fuel station all by themselves. They have very few places where they are allowed to stop due to the nature of what they are transporting, so rest breaks and feeding and comfort stops are not easy to fit in. Yet they are paid on average £15 per hour according to a quick search. Scandalous and then the Government wonders why no one wants to do the job.

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duke63 wrote:Interesting read. And very telling how we are allowing big business and Government to dictate low pay, poor working conditions and just taking too many important cogs in the wheel of the economy for granted.

Hasn't that always been the case, for the most part?

Brexiters change their one retort to “We ALL lost, get over it”


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Don't you think that's blowing things out of proportion just a touch?

He's definitely adding some tension.

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It just gets more pathetic by the day - a trade deal with a Nation that is so far away it has zero benefit to anyone.

A cargo ship takes 51 days to travel from the UK to NZ.

I doubt the shipping times are that much shorter between the UK & Japan, yet Britain does a decent amount of trade with that country, does it not??
The article does seem to indicate that this deal is intended to break the ice towards a more expansive, or broader deal in that region, further down the line.
At least, that's what I'm getting from it...?

Google shipping times between new Zealand and Japan.

28 days. Nearly half the time.

Kwacky wrote:Google shipping times between new Zealand and Japan.

I just quoted a project to pack cat food for a customer in New Zealand to get the machinery out there was £280,000
They went with a local machinery supplier

duke63 wrote:28 days. Nearly half the time.

For Japan, I'm guessing??

I came up with @ 40 days for UK-to-NZ....I have no idea how accurate that is.