‘UK govt. right for inciting fuel panic’

UK ministers have come under intense condemnation for inciting fuel panic, after Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude called on the people to fill up their jerry cans and keep them in their garages to beat off the impacts of the threatened tanker strike.

Meanwhile, Diane Hill from York suffered serious burns to her body when she was transferring petrol between canisters in her kitchen.

The mother-of-two remains in a critical condition in the specialist burns unit at Pinderfields hospital, a hospital spokesman said.

However, Hague claimed that ministers were right to warn the drivers to store fuel to tackle the threat of the strike.

“Had they not set out the precautions that people should take and alerted people to the situation, then, if the strike took place in the coming weeks, it would be said that they were complacent and hadn’t prepared the country,” he said.

“I think my colleagues have done absolutely the right thing to urge people to take sensible precautions and I think they will be vindicated by events over the coming days.”

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley also supported the government’s way of handling the threatened strike. Saying it was important for the people to be prepared for the strike, and that the ministers had to build resilience in the system.

Nevertheless, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused ministers of seeking to trigger a confrontation with the unions in a bid to recreate Margaret Thatcher’s clash with the miners in the 1984.

“They created this petrol crisis. What they did was they caused a run on the pumps for political reasons because they wanted a ‘Thatcher moment’,” she said.

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