Brown can't control oil prices (although he could obviously reduce the level of duty and tax paid on petrol - if he really wanted to), because the market sets the price of oil.
And Darling cannot command us to decrease or increase our own pay - because that, too, is set by the market.
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Date: 2008-06-28 10:20 am (UTC)Brown can't control oil prices (although he could obviously reduce the level of duty and tax paid on petrol - if he really wanted to), because the market sets the price of oil.
And Darling cannot command us to decrease or increase our own pay - because that, too, is set by the market.