Posted on 09/26/2021 8:34:30 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Boris Johnson is set to U-turn on visas for lorry drivers to allow 5,000 foreign hauliers into the UK after panic-buying gridlocked petrol stations across the country overnight.
Motorists ignored Government pleas for calm as they jammed roads and police had to be called in to marshal drivers amid fears that fuel shortages could bring the economy to its knees.
The Prime Minister is expected to buckle and grant visas for thousands of foreign drivers in a bid to tackle the shortages, while soldiers will also be drafted in to help at HGV testing sites to clear a backlog of drivers trying to get licences
As the crisis deepened:
Police were called to forecourts to manage queues, head off confrontations and keep traffic moving;
Three cars were involved in a crash when tempers flared at a petrol station in Gosport, Hampshire;
Motorists in queues complained about greedy customers filling their tanks and then jerry cans;
Small petrol stations raised prices to cash in on the panic and experts warned of further increases;
Bosses of major fuel firms warned they will have to start shutting petrol stations because there are not enough lorry drivers to effectively distribute to all of its petrol stations;
A private equity-backed haulage firm specialising in chilled deliveries to Asda and Sainsbury's went bust, adding to concerns about gaps on shelves;
A shortage of natural gas causing a spike in gas bills for millions of Britons and the closure of fertiliser plants, which produce the CO2 used in fizzy drinks and the meat industry;
Bank of England warned yesterday that surging household energy bills would send the cost of living spiralling by more than 4 per cent this winter - the highest rate of growth for a decade
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Anything to get more foreigners in your country.
More evidence that leftists are incapable of being in leadership positions. Failure every single time gullible people emotionally elect leftist liars and cheats, that goes for the assistant dimocrats and their supporters.
Boris is starting to make Teresa May look good.
Boris isn’t a leftist
Depends upon what you consider a leftist. Boris today isn’t the Boris of yesterday. IMHO.
The fuel shortage is linked to his NEW crazy fossil fuel rules which are her ideas .
5000 Muslims from third world villages driving volatile fuel trucks all over England.
That should work out well.
She’s not a lefty loon - she’s an outright self-admitted communist!
We have the establishment in a panic. Work to get them removed and to remake the money system. That’s what they re afraid of.
Meanwhile, Hochul in NYS is threatening to bring in foreign labor to replace all the healthcare refuseniks who will be fired soon.
What a coinkydink.
Couldn’t be coordinated, could it...
Nah.
The UK has always had hefty gas prices.
Peter Hitchens would beg to differ with you on that.
Johnson may be economically “conservative” as in pro-capitalism but he’s socially to the Left bending his knee on “Climate Chance” policy and heck even the CCP in China wants capitalism they can control and profit from.
And Johnson’s “Conservative” UK government spends money into the ground with COVID making the debt problem even worse.
“Boris isn’t a leftist”
Not a leftist? If he isn’t you could sure make do with him till a real leftist comes along.
He would fit very nicely in the US Democrat party. Of course he’s a leftist.
Boris has quickly gravitated Left. Praised biden as “a breath of fresh air”.
I hope she was worth it, Boris.
LOL, he is now. Don't know what happened to him. Maybe COVID rattled his wits.
I know that...Went to Canada when I was a kid...still remember that...and that was 65 years ago.
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