Posted on 09/27/2021 10:18:30 PM PDT by Cronos
Gas stations in parts of Britain are running out of fuel as drivers line up to fill their tanks in what the government and gas companies call an artificial run on gasoline. It is "panic buying, pure and simple," ..
The government has also sent letters to nearly a million licensed HGV drivers who are no longer in the trucking industry, urging them to return to work, and ministers are weighing whether to deploy the armed forces to deliver fuel to gas stations. Britain lost 72,000 truckers and about 128,000 other European Union citizens when it closed its borders due to its exit from the EU, or Brexit.
The trucker shortage got especially acute after Britain completed its EU withdrawal in January, while the COVID-19 pandemic slowed training of new truck drivers. And it isn't just gas stations affected. "Countless industries in Britain have complained recently about lagging deliveries, with shortages of McDonald's milkshakes and roasted chicken at Nando's restaurants generating headlines," The New York Times reports. Critics said these problems were clearly foreseeable.
..."We knew in particular that when we exited the EU, there would be a need for a backup plan to deal with the situation,"
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
It has nothing to do with Brexit. This is the anti-Brexit narrative.
Brexit results ping.
Before Biden we were exporting oil and gas. We have plenty but the communists in our government are not allowing Americans or our trading partners to have access to it. The Democrat Politburo will not allow it.
It has everything to do with Brexit. The bulk of drivers were from other EU countries. And the British government did not plan on training their replacements
Over the past few months, Brits have noticed massive gaps appearing on supermarket shelves, restaurants have been shutting down after running out of chicken, and there have even been ominous warnings of an imminent national beer shortage. That’s all due to a huge 100,000-strong shortfall in truck drivers, in large part due to European drivers leaving the country behind following its withdrawal from the European Union.
Tied to Brexit? I say total BS.
So they banned the drivers? Why? What did that have to do with Brexit?
Why can’t the UK train truck drivers? It’s not rocket science. And why are we having supply issues in the USA?
Cronos might really know. I think he’s either English or Irish.
They can hire truckers from the rest of their former empire. They already know how to drive on the “wrong” side of the road.
Brexit is 2 year old and they're just leaving now?
What are the unemployment numbers? How many people are currently on the dole? As in the US, how many people are refusing to return to work?
Did Brexit include 'no immigration at all' provisions? Does Britain post-Brexit have no legal immigration or guest worker policies?
While I don't live there and follow this in detail I know when the media is creating a narrative and to me this looks like what they're doing.
Maybe Brexit has something to do with it but I suspect Covid and other issues have something to do with this as well. I don't believe this is a single-issue problem. And I don't trust a liberal media to set the narrative (I first read about this in The Guardian).
Sounds like the Brits could use pipelines.
One might note that the shortage of drivers is not limited to just the UK. Various chats in Germany and France as well....just not as severe.
Labour shortage due to ‘high demand, not Brexit’
The Guardian narrative which has been picked up by CNN and every lock-step liberal news outlet.
The cause of our food and petrol shortages is Brexit – yet no one dares name it
Did you support or oppose Brexit?
If post-Brexit is have a labor crisis, you can pick up the Haitians and Mexicans at our southern border.
They didn’t ban drivers. They had many truck drivers from Central European countries. After Brexit, those truck drivers left. Hence a shortage of drivers
The demand was depressed due to Covid.
UK unemployment rate is 4.8%, that us approximately 2 million
2.2 million on the dole as of june 2021.
Don’t see many refusing to go back to work,
Brexit includes no free movement.
British immigration is not defined yet post Brexit. They are negotiating with India to bring in more Indian immiy
Your first link says “the number of vacancies went up by 39 per cent in the first half of 2021 in comparison to last year, while the number of applications fell by just 23 per cent”
Demand of construction workers went up at the same time supply of construction workers went down.
Went down.. due to Brexit.
Haiti and Mexico are in north America. That’s far from the UK.
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