Both sides in strike row must take time to reflect

WITH the shutdown of the BP Forties pipeline threatening serious disruption to oil supplies throughout the UK, the Grangemouth dispute has escalated far beyond a local row about pension rights for a group of refinery workers. Emergency services and tens of thousands of businesses across Scotland and northern England are now vitally dependent on tanker supplies from the continent into Aberdeen and other east coast ports and those supplies being unloaded. As well as the Border Thistle tanker carry

Should these back-up oil supplies be put in jeopardy, government ministers at both Holyrood and Westminster will be faced with a major crisis that will require the national as opposed to sectional interests are put first to ensure basic oil and gas s...