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Panicking fuels

Jun 15 2008 by Jon Omalley, Sunday Sun

IT’S as inevitable as death and taxes . . . what happens when someone tells you not to panic?

You run around like headless chickens.

So when Gordon Brown’s spokesmen told us not to panic-buy petrol, the result — naturally — was to raise the spectre of fuel shortages.

Brown’s boys — like a whole platoon of Corporal Jones’s from Dad’s Army — were running around saying don’t panic, don’t panic, while contributing to that panic.

And these are the ones in charge?

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