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  • They are kind of right that there weren't food shortages. Eg loads of flour as long as you wanted it in 25kg sacks.

  • Its like there isn’t a fuel shortage (the refineries have plenty) but there is a supply problem.

    My issue is really about how all these things are apparently nefarious schemes by the government.

    Raising prices like that is price gouging and is totally illegal lol. It’s an absurd thing to suggest Tesco and the like would get away with it.

    He’s also convinced that they only make electric cars at the moment, and that they’ve stopped all production of petrol and diesels.

    It’s all irrelevant as he’s currently about 3m behind the car in front on the motorway in torrential rain, so we’re probably going to snuff it in the next 10 minutes.

  • My issue is really about how all these things are apparently nefarious schemes by the government.

    This government would struggle to run a bath. I can’t see how they could run any nefarious type scheme, as they’d fuck it up.

  • Raising prices like that is price gouging and is totally illegal lol. It’s an absurd thing to suggest Tesco and the like would get away with it.

    Except the government is to suspend competition laws any second, aren't they?

    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58701620.amp

    (would have my tinfoil hat on but the shelves were empty...)

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