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The British Government says that insufficient winter fuel supplies is "not a cause for immediate concern."
That's probably true but it's also a good example of answering the wrong question. "Is this a cause for concern?" is a very different question to "Is this a cause for immediate concern?" If the answer to the first is "yes" it would be better to deal with it before the answer to the second is also "yes"!


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Absolutely. It reminds me of using multiple negatives in a sentence so that you never really quite know what they are saying. I just don't get it.
 
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