| In a week when the Government came
under sustained attack, there was some good news, with Tony Blair named as outright winner
of a prestigious new award just made up by the editor of The JT. Following news that the oil companies planned to hike prices after the recent
blockade, PM Blair expressed surprise and disappointment: "I'm surprised and
disappointed. In the past, I'd always thought multinational oil companies were kind and
socially responsible organisations, a bit like the Girl Guides but with oil wells. It
would now appear these companies are in fact, rapacious predators concerned only for their
own selfish ends…"
So, the "Naw, really?" award goes to Mr Tony for
his novel revelatory insight into the commercial practices of capitalist fat cats. At the
time of writing it was not clear if Tony has further discovered that every snowflake's
different and that God didn't in fact make those little green apples. |
Informed commentators were last
night speculating whether recent events would mark a shift of emphasis for the PM, away
from sucking up to rapacious plutocrats, but don't hold your breath… Elsewhere, following the petrol blockade, other consumer groups acted to
protest against sales tax.
Fags and Bevvy users claimed that the high tax levels on fags
and bevvy were causing untold stress amongst the carcinogenic community leading to ill
health. A well thought out plan to blockade a cash & carry outside Airth floundered
when protestors found themselves without fags and bevvy to sustain them through the
blockade.
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