The current round of fuel protests have been a bit of a damp squib (or is that the leaked Attourney General's memo?); people seem to have got used to the price of fuel, it's not an election issue.
London to Manchester Part TwoOK Thanks to everyone who replied to my orig post. Did the trip yesterday and considered all the options. Decided on a wait and see...
Why, then, don't they try attacking the other end of the equation? Their gripe is that with fuel costs so high, and their customers screwing the price down to uneconomic levels, there's no margin. If they can't fix the problem of the fuel cost, then how about trying to sort out the amount they're paid to ship goods around the country? The big supermarkets are often seen as the "evil monopolistic corporations" who can dictate the price to farmers, hauliers, etc; what would happen if said farmers and the hauliers who transport the farm goods to the supermarkets' distribution centres picket the distribtion centres, and demand an economic price for transporting the food? There's already a perception in the country that the big supermarkets use their huge size to reduce the margins of their suppliers (farmers etc), so such a protest may get more traction (though this may change when the supermarkets say that it'd make the price of food go up).
If pulling on the problem doesn't work, try pushing instead.
Just a thought.
