Priti Patel has tried to blame the opposition Labour Party for fuel shortages, as petrol stations close across Britain.
Some forecourts have run out of fuel over the weekend amid a perfect storm of environmental protests, increased post-lockdown demand, and the war in Ukraine.
Activists from the Just Stop Oil group have blocked the entrances outside key terminals across the country and made it hard to move fuel in and out.
Depots hit include those in Warwickshire, Hertfordshire and Essex – disrupting onward deliveries to petrol stations across the south east and midlands.
But speaking to the Conservative-supporting Daily Mail newspaper Home Secretary claimed it was “selfish” to protest against and disrupt the polluting industry.
And she tried to link the protests to Labour by highlighting that the party had not supported new draconian new police powers in the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill.
The bill has repeatedly been rejected by peers from across parties in the House of Lords on the basis that it undermines the right to protest – including banning noisy and annoying demonstrations and criminalising protesters locking themselves to thing.
But the Home Secretary said: “Hard-working people across our country are seeing their lives brought to a standstill by selfish, fanatical and frankly dangerous so-called activists.
“Keir Starmer’s Labour Party repeatedly voted against our proposals that would have given the police extra powers to deal with this eco mob. The police have my full backing in doing everything necessary to address this public nuisance.”
The claim is misleading because police are already able to arrest such protesters under existing laws, such as public order offences or obstruction of a highway.
Protesters say they have dug a tunnel under a road to block deliveries to the Kingsbury oil terminal in Warwickshire; they have also locked themselves to the gates of the Buncefield terminal in Hertfordshire and disrupted the Exolum storage terminal in Grays, Essex.
The group wants ministers to agree to stop all new fossil fuel investments in light of the climate emergency – but the government this year has said it is pressing ahead with new drilling and has asked the industry to write its own environmental rulebook.
The department for business, energy and industrial strategy has claimed “all fuel supply points are fully operational” in an apparent bid to reduce panic-buying and petrol stations run dry.
Ah, the ol’ blame labour for everything trick. Why not just outlaw Labour at this point? Or do the tories seriously believe that they are still running for election and blaming everything on labour is the best thing they can do?
And it will work on some people, its like the Joe Biden stickers people are putting on fuel pumps in the states saying its his fault fuel prices are so high.
Are there shortages? Is this The Independent trying to incite panic buying again?
The Labour Party that were in power 12 years ago? That Labour Party?
The Conservatives have been in power far too long now to try and get away with blaming anybody else for anything.
So she didn’t actually say what the headline suggests, what a surprise.
Fucking politics. Stop blaming each other..work together to find a solution for us working people not on your salaries. You don’t get a shit you can afford we can’t.. for once think about US
And the sad thing is, some morons will still blame Labour.
This really does show how important for this bill to have never left the drawing board. Along with the Sarah Everard protest. The Tories are a vindictive set of ruthless bastards, who will jump on anyone with a different opinion. Why anyone wants to trust them with power like this goes beyond me.
If Labour didn’t exist, the Tories would have to invent it.
“they’ve got flags, its very immature”
Speaking hypocrisy like a true conservative.
It is true to say that “priti” patel is Very trying.
“Labour are to blame because they didn’t want us stripping you of your right to protest”
Fuck off you useless vile cunt.
HAHAHAHAHA blame a political party that hasn’t been in power for 12 years for a problem that was entirely avoidable and entirely their fault.
Unless they goaded Russia into invading Ukraine, there is no chance Labour are behind this. Putin is an easy target for anger and she should have just stuck to blaming him, only a moron would believe Labour could have anything to do with fuel shortages.
Nearly 15 years of Tory rule, look at the fucking state of this country.
She is an odious cunt. She is proud, yes proud of ‘restricting freedom of movement’. That is fascism. Her and Rees-Mogg long for the days of dictatorship.
The problem is, if you’re thick enough a cunt to actually vote for this lot in the first place, you’re thick enough a cunt to believe the things they say. Try to imagine the mindset of someone who looks at that fucking dropped blancmange and thinks “yeah he’d be a good Prime Minister!” – I know you can’t, but try – that’s what we’re up against.
The kind of never-achieved-a-damn-thing bottom feeders who write ‘these colours don’t run’ under their St George profile picture (check out their other profile pictures for proof of the ‘doesn’t run’ part) lap this shit up, and it’s all aimed at them. I’ve seen pretty much every government I’ve lived through do some cynical, dishonest shit, but all this lot have done since day fucking one is encourage Little Englanders to hate everyone else. Even calling it a ‘culture war’ is probably over-dignifying it. These are a bunch of fucking cunts who can’t understand that some people aren’t cunts, might not even want to be cunts.
Good job Boris is in charge now throw eh Pritti? what a fucking farce
How does one make the party not in power responsible for the antics and betrayals of the party actually in power? I don’t get it.
“asked the industry to write its own environmental rulebook.” Fucking hell, just fucking hell.
“Conservative-supporting Daily Mail'”
The real bombshell is in the text.
12 years of tory rule, still blaming the previous labour govt.
‘…she tried to link the protests to Labour by highlighting that the party had not supported new draconian new police powers in the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill.’
This is insane, Tories didn’t need labour to get that through.
I think I’ve seen this once? Sorry guys it happened sometime during the past *12* years
How? When was the last time Labour were in power in the UK to be able to be the cause of such a thing?
All the hell in the UK right now, all the bad shite, lack of food, massive hikes in cost of living? That’s squarely on the Tory party and those who support them.
Priti Patel is a piece of toxic sludge. That she is in the postion of Home Secretary is an indictment against our systems of governance.
She is delusional to even peddle this lie. We should be worried about the position she has in government that she can’t hold her hands up and say the Tory party are to blame.
Do research on her she gave Israel money that was meant for soldiers and poorest families to have secret meetings with top officials in Israel. To this day wen don’t know what was said only that she started moving up in her party.
She also gave money to Modi trip to America to meet trump and to go to his rally
Justice would be the headline “Priti pranged by Boris bus’
I would pay good money for someone to egg this evil bitch
Surprised she isn’t blaming immigrants to be honest.
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Priti Patel has tried to blame the opposition Labour Party for fuel shortages, as petrol stations close across Britain.
Some forecourts have run out of fuel over the weekend amid a perfect storm of environmental protests, increased post-lockdown demand, and the war in Ukraine.
Activists from the Just Stop Oil group have blocked the entrances outside key terminals across the country and made it hard to move fuel in and out.
Depots hit include those in Warwickshire, Hertfordshire and Essex – disrupting onward deliveries to petrol stations across the south east and midlands.
But speaking to the Conservative-supporting Daily Mail newspaper Home Secretary claimed it was “selfish” to protest against and disrupt the polluting industry.
And she tried to link the protests to Labour by highlighting that the party had not supported new draconian new police powers in the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill.
The bill has repeatedly been rejected by peers from across parties in the House of Lords on the basis that it undermines the right to protest – including banning noisy and annoying demonstrations and criminalising protesters locking themselves to thing.
But the Home Secretary said: “Hard-working people across our country are seeing their lives brought to a standstill by selfish, fanatical and frankly dangerous so-called activists.
“Keir Starmer’s Labour Party repeatedly voted against our proposals that would have given the police extra powers to deal with this eco mob. The police have my full backing in doing everything necessary to address this public nuisance.”
The claim is misleading because police are already able to arrest such protesters under existing laws, such as public order offences or obstruction of a highway.
Protesters say they have dug a tunnel under a road to block deliveries to the Kingsbury oil terminal in Warwickshire; they have also locked themselves to the gates of the Buncefield terminal in Hertfordshire and disrupted the Exolum storage terminal in Grays, Essex.
The group wants ministers to agree to stop all new fossil fuel investments in light of the climate emergency – but the government this year has said it is pressing ahead with new drilling and has asked the industry to write its own environmental rulebook.
The department for business, energy and industrial strategy has claimed “all fuel supply points are fully operational” in an apparent bid to reduce panic-buying and petrol stations run dry.
Ah, the ol’ blame labour for everything trick. Why not just outlaw Labour at this point? Or do the tories seriously believe that they are still running for election and blaming everything on labour is the best thing they can do?
And it will work on some people, its like the Joe Biden stickers people are putting on fuel pumps in the states saying its his fault fuel prices are so high.
Are there shortages? Is this The Independent trying to incite panic buying again?
The Labour Party that were in power 12 years ago? That Labour Party?
The Conservatives have been in power far too long now to try and get away with blaming anybody else for anything.
So she didn’t actually say what the headline suggests, what a surprise.
Fucking politics. Stop blaming each other..work together to find a solution for us working people not on your salaries. You don’t get a shit you can afford we can’t.. for once think about US
And the sad thing is, some morons will still blame Labour.
This really does show how important for this bill to have never left the drawing board. Along with the Sarah Everard protest. The Tories are a vindictive set of ruthless bastards, who will jump on anyone with a different opinion. Why anyone wants to trust them with power like this goes beyond me.
If Labour didn’t exist, the Tories would have to invent it.
“they’ve got flags, its very immature”
Speaking hypocrisy like a true conservative.
It is true to say that “priti” patel is Very trying.
“Labour are to blame because they didn’t want us stripping you of your right to protest”
Fuck off you useless vile cunt.
HAHAHAHAHA blame a political party that hasn’t been in power for 12 years for a problem that was entirely avoidable and entirely their fault.
Unless they goaded Russia into invading Ukraine, there is no chance Labour are behind this. Putin is an easy target for anger and she should have just stuck to blaming him, only a moron would believe Labour could have anything to do with fuel shortages.
Nearly 15 years of Tory rule, look at the fucking state of this country.
She is an odious cunt. She is proud, yes proud of ‘restricting freedom of movement’. That is fascism. Her and Rees-Mogg long for the days of dictatorship.
The problem is, if you’re thick enough a cunt to actually vote for this lot in the first place, you’re thick enough a cunt to believe the things they say. Try to imagine the mindset of someone who looks at that fucking dropped blancmange and thinks “yeah he’d be a good Prime Minister!” – I know you can’t, but try – that’s what we’re up against.
The kind of never-achieved-a-damn-thing bottom feeders who write ‘these colours don’t run’ under their St George profile picture (check out their other profile pictures for proof of the ‘doesn’t run’ part) lap this shit up, and it’s all aimed at them. I’ve seen pretty much every government I’ve lived through do some cynical, dishonest shit, but all this lot have done since day fucking one is encourage Little Englanders to hate everyone else. Even calling it a ‘culture war’ is probably over-dignifying it. These are a bunch of fucking cunts who can’t understand that some people aren’t cunts, might not even want to be cunts.
Good job Boris is in charge now throw eh Pritti? what a fucking farce
How does one make the party not in power responsible for the antics and betrayals of the party actually in power? I don’t get it.
“asked the industry to write its own environmental rulebook.” Fucking hell, just fucking hell.
“Conservative-supporting Daily Mail'”
The real bombshell is in the text.
12 years of tory rule, still blaming the previous labour govt.
‘…she tried to link the protests to Labour by highlighting that the party had not supported new draconian new police powers in the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill.’
This is insane, Tories didn’t need labour to get that through.
I think I’ve seen this once? Sorry guys it happened sometime during the past *12* years
How? When was the last time Labour were in power in the UK to be able to be the cause of such a thing?
All the hell in the UK right now, all the bad shite, lack of food, massive hikes in cost of living? That’s squarely on the Tory party and those who support them.
Priti Patel is a piece of toxic sludge. That she is in the postion of Home Secretary is an indictment against our systems of governance.
She is delusional to even peddle this lie. We should be worried about the position she has in government that she can’t hold her hands up and say the Tory party are to blame.
Do research on her she gave Israel money that was meant for soldiers and poorest families to have secret meetings with top officials in Israel. To this day wen don’t know what was said only that she started moving up in her party.
She also gave money to Modi trip to America to meet trump and to go to his rally
Justice would be the headline “Priti pranged by Boris bus’
I would pay good money for someone to egg this evil bitch
Surprised she isn’t blaming immigrants to be honest.