Benzin på bålet

Det lyder som en fantasifuld historie, men Storbritanniens konservative har faktisk fremprovokeret en panik over benzinpriser for at nedkæmpe en fagforening og skyde skylden på Labour. The Daily Telegraph (svarer til JP) rapporterer om beskeden fra konservative parlamentsmedlemmer til lokale foreninger:

The private message is as follows. “This is our Thatcher moment. In order to defeat the coming miners’ strike, she stockpiled coal. When the strike came, she weathered it, and the Labour Party, tarred by the strike, was humiliated. In order to defeat the coming fuel drivers’ strike, we want supplies of petrol stockpiled. Then, if the strike comes, we will weather it, and Labour, in hock to the Unite union, will be blamed.” 

Det er da politik.