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    Aktuelles aus der Politik: Benzinhändler brechen Treffen mit Reeves wegen „hetzerischer Sprache“ ab


    Aktuelles aus der Politik: Benzinhändler brechen Treffen mit Reeves wegen „hetzerischer Sprache“ ab

    https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-mandelson-files-starmer-labour-trump-12593360?postid=11268725#liveblog-body

    Von topotaul

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    1. Gentle_Snail on

      I love when groups try to attack the government for something but just end up making them look better.

    2. MondeyMondey on

      Guess you don’t want anything inflammatory when it comes to petrol!!!!

    3. RaymondBumcheese on

      ‘No profiteering’

      ‘WELL FUCK THAT NOISE!!’

      Looks good, nice one. 

    4. hoopjoness on

      Dear god how childish. Just an excuse to dodge a meeting where they will be told they can’t do what they want at the expense of the British public ffs

    5. AnalTinnitus on

      Asda and Tesco petrol prices have shot up to around 137p a litre where I live. Places like Esso and Texaco are up past 140p. This is up from about 131p average a few weeks back before Trump fucked up the Middle East.

    7. raven43122 on

      When about 70p a ltr is tax and they where about to dump another 5p on

      I’d have a hard time talking about me profiteering if I was them to. 

      Making them walk out or giving them an excuse to is bad management what ever way you slice it. 

      But I suppose they tried unlike in the Russia crisis when they used tax payers money to pay the suppliers which in turn made record profits.

      Dammed if you do comes to mind 

    8. OkCraft3597 on

      I mean, it’s just a cover because they are absolutely profiteering already. Most supermarket petrol stations buy in fuel two weeks in advance, at least. The moment the war started prices were up everywhere. They just are hoping to dodge any kind of accountability. The only ones who can be excused are local independents who will not have good deals, and buy on a daily basis.

    9. Future_Pianist9570 on

      So the „Inflammatory language“ used was accusing petrol retailers of ripping off consumers after them jacking up the prices for fuel that they would have paid for months a go at a much lower cost. And them pulling out of the meeting is because their demands of no media coverage wasn’t met so that they could „explain“ how it all works in private. Yeah get fucked.

      EDIT: Oh they’ve changed their minds and are back in again….

    10. IndependentOpinion44 on

      Ok. Then we’ll see them in front of a select committee where lying could get you locked up.

    11. IndependentOpinion44 on

      > A meeting between petrol retailers and the chancellor is back on, less than an hour after the retailers announced they were pulling out, Sky News understands.

    12. Yakona0409 on

      Didn’t think I would ever say this about current Labour but good on them for at the very least standing up to these companies with their words

    14. Spamgrenade on

      Go on Rachel tell those wankers to fuck off. This is what I voted Labour for.

    15. HeadBat1863 on

      Reading the Sky News headline and you’d think that Rachel Reeves was threatening to have them beaten up, or something.

    16. Sea-Payment-8989 on

      What, dear Ms Reeves upsetting anyone – who would have thought that?

    17. StandardNerd92 on

      The same retailers that raised prices when the government was cutting fuel duty, pocketing the difference…. I’d have some inflammatory language for them, too.

    18. SmurfRiding on

      News is out of date now:

      A meeting between petrol retailers and the chancellor is back on, less than an hour after the retailers announced they were pulling out, Sky News understands.

    19. dvb70 on

      The fact the government is getting criticism for this really is a perfect demonstration of how hostile the media have become to this government. How anyone can see it as a bad thing government want to question petrol retailers about profiteering is nuts.

    20. Useful_Promotion_521 on

      The reaction to this must be to roll out renewables, storage, sensible EVs and recharging networks at even greater pace than now.  

    21. Competitive_Pen7192 on

      If they have to raise prices then whatever. It’s the slow gradual lowering of them after things ease that upsets me as that’s profiteering.

    22. Impressive-Bird-6085 on

      Me thinks the petrol companies are just being greedy!! Don’t like being held to account for their corporate greed….

    23. tmicky363 on

      In reality, retailer profit is only a small part and percentage of fuel prices (8% according to the BBC). Now, that could and should be lower, but government taxes, charges, levies, duties and VAT is like over half the cost of fuel and petrol!

      Green charges, levies and duties; VAT is charged on fuel and petrol; fuel duty is similarly enormous.

      Then, we have the political choices of this government and previous governments not taking advantage of North Sea oil too.

      Starmer, Reeves and Miliband are deflecting. Our petrol and fuel prices, among the highest in the entire world (and certainly in the developed world and Europe too) are down to government and political choices – choices this government (the Labour party) are continuing to make.

    24. Comfortable_Poem_841 on

      Anyone think petrol retailers give even the slightest darn about their employees? Anyone?

    25. Sir_Henry_Deadman on

      Don’t call our war profiteering war profiteering

      Call it war stock price stabilisation

    26. Gambit1977 on

      Remember the last fuel price hike…”unavoidable” iirc.

      Then they all reported record profits.

      No fucking shit!

    27. PatienceIsMore on

      100% the government fault for attempting to stop them from ripping off their customers, which they are obviously doing when pushing prices up 10-20% on stock they had BEFORE the oil price spiked.

      Reeves and Millibands fault for using language that is far too soft and understating the extend of the petrol retailer rip-offs.

      Surely the CMA will act this time boosting competition, on top of their hugely sucessful online price requirement, by threatening more hard words.

      Heavan forbid the CMA require petrol retailers bring prices down as quickly as they put them up???

    28. derrenbrownisawizard on

      “Rachel Reeves bullies and shames hardworking retailers trying to support us with fuel in our hour of need 🙏 “ – The Mail probably

    29. InfectedFrenulum on

      No different to corner shops charging a tenner for bog roll/hand sanitiser in February/early March 2020.

    30. JuneauEu on

      See the follow-up?

      They deleted the tweet, and the meeting was back on less than an hour later.

      Where’s the front page breaking news bit, you might ask? It is still showing the original tweet.

    32. BP202 on

      So I up fill every week £60. Day after the price shock £80. So yes you are price gouging you fuckin capitalist monsters.

    33. 7148675309 on

      It isn’t negative margins when the cost of petrol goes up quickly – up it is the same petrol that the oil company delivered the day before.

      One could argue it is priced at replacement cost – but then it that were the case – why when oil prices fall does it take so it takes so long for petrol prices to fall…

    34. Altruistic_Safe_8776 on

      We pay 53% tax on petrol plus 20% VAT on top of that. If the government wanted to talk about gouging they should self reflect a little first.

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