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# To celebrate...
...Francis Maude's role in raising Britain's Stupid People Nearly Burning To Death In Kitchen Fires statistics, I present this souvenir T-shirt:

(Harry Webshiter Spiggley biggley bog., Fri 30 Mar 2012, 14:38, archived)
# What, you mean
NO FUCKING ROLE AT ALL?

b3ta.com/links/I_wonder_if_Francis_Maude_will_deign_to_comment_on_this
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 14:39, archived)
# I heard on the radio she was decanting using a jar
dear fucking god, a jar, in a kitchen.

It's a horrible thing but a little fucking sense of "explody thing may explode" might have helped here.

Oh well, at least it might help a few folks realise the potential danger of fuel/air mixtures in enclosed spaces(it wont't, but one can hope).
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:22, archived)
# The fact that...
...she is clearly a fucking idiot (as I noted when I posted the image, i.e. "Britain's Stupid People Nearly Burning To Death In Kitchen Fires statistics") doesn't absolve greasy cunt Maude from his responsibility in giving out cretinous scaremongering advice in the first place. Or, to put it more simply: Cunt + Fuckwit = Mess
(Harry Webshiter Spiggley biggley bog., Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:23, archived)
# I agree
If Maude had said anything at all about keeping fuel in the house or decanting it or, indeed, done anything other than tell people that they really shouldn't be panic buying, then maybe this would be relevant.

Since he did not, it is not.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:28, archived)
# So if Maude had kept his big gob shut...
..she would still have been there in her kitchen decanting petrol, would she? There isn't - in your mind - even the slightest connection between a government cynically manipulating public fear and (admittedly stupid) members of that public then doing stupid things out of fear?
(Harry Webshiter Spiggley biggley bog., Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:44, archived)
# What he said and what was reported are not the same thing.
As well as this, a connection is not blame.

If I had not been at the quay Victor Greenwood would not have had the same audience and may not have tried to swim across and drowned as I tried to save him.

I am in no way to blame for his actions.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:46, archived)
# God I'm bored...
All we ever get from you is an ever more bizarre defence of Maude as if you're his abandoned lovechild; "Look, daddy, look how I'm defending you! Please love me, daddy, please don't go away again!" *sob*
(Harry Webshiter Spiggley biggley bog., Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:49, archived)
# How rare
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 16:52, archived)
# Darwin award
On standby
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:39, archived)
# She has a
daughter.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:44, archived)
# I'm all for anything that thins the unthinking masses
(I helped save b3ta! Paul_P http://www.Paul-hub.com, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 14:41, archived)
# I feel a bit sorry for her, everyone calling her the stupidist etc etc
I can't recall how many times burns were related to igniting fuel vapour. It's more about education than stupidity
just check out how many videos there are on youtube of people blowing themselves up
(I helped save b3ta! claptonista ,the idiot boy.........., Fri 30 Mar 2012, 14:51, archived)
# I think Francis should walk
he's been exposed as a scaremonger and someone has died.

This whole petrol thing is a farce and the cynic in me suspects that as it's the end of the financial year, this is a last ditch attempt by the government at trying to fudge the yearly figures, transforming Gideon into boy wonder.
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 14:55, archived)
# Ed Balls says it was a tactic to distract from the donation scandal, I'm inclined to agree
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:00, archived)
# Ah yes,
it seems to have worked well..
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:18, archived)
# yep
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:05, archived)
# Wait, she died?
I haven't read this anywhere, got a link?

Yes, scaring people into panic-buying is fucking ridiculous, and he needs to be called out on it, but it isn't a life-threateningly irresponsible act in the same way that careless handling of a very flammable substance is life-threateningly irresponsible.
(I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:18, archived)
# If you read what he actually said
instead of the short excerpt which was published, he is not responsible at all.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:20, archived)
# I give up
I walk to work, so fuck the whole thing
(I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:31, archived)
# He just did not say 'panic buy'
he said 'dso not panic buy' and the media were utterly irresponsible.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:47, archived)
# Drivel
Poor reporting is all that happened. This is fuck all to do with him and it is just idiocy to keep our cabinet on the basis of how good they are at popularity contests instead of merit.

He is in no way culpable for the fact that this woman decanted petrol next to her lit cooker, which she stockpiled after reading a quote printed out of context. In no way at all.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:19, archived)
# fair enough on both accounts
but he is still guilty of scaremongering and should go for that IMHO.

And no, she didn't die, I've only had half an eye on the news today
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:44, archived)
# No he is not.
He did not scaremonger, in fact quite the contrary. He said, in response to specific questioning, that there was no need to panic, that no strike was scheduled and that anything beyond filling up the tank or having some in the garage was unnecessary.

It was reported as him saying that everyone should fill up their tanks and fill their garage with petrol, but that does not make it true that he said that.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:49, archived)
# Interesting...
...how our esteemed Prime Minister himself said that '...a bit of petrol panic may be no bad thing' last Tuesday:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123444/Fuel-panic-good-said-PM-told-Ministers-held-ransom-tanker-drivers.html#ixzz1qlvgtz2G

So the fact that even the Prime Minister explicitly stated that a 'petrol panic' would be the obvious (and desirable) outcome of his government's policies is in no way connected with anything that happens as a result of people, er, panicking over petrol? FFS...

Note also the usual Cameron Denial Followed By Belated Confirmation:

Asked if the Prime Minister had said ‘a bit of petrol panic may be no bad thing’, a Downing Street spokesman initially said he had ‘no recollection’ of any such remark, before denying the comment was made.

However, Cabinet sources told The Mail on Sunday Mr Cameron did make the comment.
(Harry Webshiter Spiggley biggley bog., Sun 1 Apr 2012, 9:58, archived)
# No-one has fucking died
Stop blowing this out of all proportion to fit your political agenda.
(I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:48, archived)
# Woman pours petrol from one container to another in a kitchen with an active gas cooker.
Francis Maude didn't make this lady a dribbling idiot or tell her to attempt any of the above.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:07, archived)
# What she said.
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:14, archived)
# ^^^^
This
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:18, archived)