"Oil Lies"
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:36 pm
Not wishing to fall out with fellow fans but I really couldn't let a few things that were said in the locked thread pass without comment. Sorry to everybody else. But here we are, free to debate politics and whatever else takes our fancy.
I'll start with the so called oil lies. Publicised by, among others the unionist Daily Record this week, these were of course oil predictions and everybody got them wrong. Indeed Westminster over-estimated them even more than the SNP did. Oil price has plummeted, still not at 1998 levels but at worrying levels to the oil industry. They have rebounded a bit slightly, as anyone filling up their car will have noticed. Now I don't know what the oil price will be next week, no one does but the OBR's forecast for next year have been taken as gospel by the Record. What "will happen". Once again. Predictions. Forecasts. OBR were way out last time, they could be again.
As for Labour supporters mentioning oil lies, they really should take a wee look closer to home. Google "Denis Healy oil" for a start. Or acquaint yourselves with the McCrone report.
Oh and news just in, more Labour lies from Jim Murphy. Five seconds in to his Murnaghan interview and he repeats Labour's favourite lie of the moment that "the biggest party gets to form the government". Then why did Gordon Brown's Labour incumbent govt try to form the government in 2010 when the Tories were the largest party?
I'll start with the so called oil lies. Publicised by, among others the unionist Daily Record this week, these were of course oil predictions and everybody got them wrong. Indeed Westminster over-estimated them even more than the SNP did. Oil price has plummeted, still not at 1998 levels but at worrying levels to the oil industry. They have rebounded a bit slightly, as anyone filling up their car will have noticed. Now I don't know what the oil price will be next week, no one does but the OBR's forecast for next year have been taken as gospel by the Record. What "will happen". Once again. Predictions. Forecasts. OBR were way out last time, they could be again.
As for Labour supporters mentioning oil lies, they really should take a wee look closer to home. Google "Denis Healy oil" for a start. Or acquaint yourselves with the McCrone report.
Oh and news just in, more Labour lies from Jim Murphy. Five seconds in to his Murnaghan interview and he repeats Labour's favourite lie of the moment that "the biggest party gets to form the government". Then why did Gordon Brown's Labour incumbent govt try to form the government in 2010 when the Tories were the largest party?