MPs fuel panic

AFTER a week of political point-scoring over everything from pasties to the panic over petrol, the country desperately needs its leaders to show calm heads and sound judgment.

By The Newsroom

Published 31st Mar 2012, 08:48 BST

Whatever the Government intended when it urged people to store up fuel in a jerry can in case of an impending tanker drive strike, it has backfired.

A crisis created in Westminster is being felt up and down the country as motorists face long queues for fuel, reports emerge of clashes on the forecourt and, most seriously of all, a woman in Yorkshire suffered major burns while transferring petrol between containers in her kitchen.

Yet despite these events the country is being treated to more of the same from our political elite.

Labour are using the woman’s injuries to call for a ministerial resignation while the Tories seek to embarrass Labour over its links to the Unite union leading the strike. This is simply not good enough.

If the events of the past two days show us anything, it should be that party politics must never come ahead of responsible leadership and good government.