Senior Tory Blames ‘Fuel Crisis’ on the Lockdown and Bad Longterm Planning
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/09/28/senior-tory-blames-fuel-crisis-on-the-lockdown-and-bad-longterm-planning/As the so-called fuel crisis continued, the government has put the army on standby to deliver petrol and is recruiting foreign workers while critics blame Brexit. However, former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has blamed the coronavirus lockdown for slowing the processing of drivers’ licences and long-term planning failures by haulier firms and government.
It was announced on Tuesday that army tankers and drivers have been put on standby to deliver diesel and petrol to station forecourts after a fourth day of shortages and closures sparked by panic buying. Unions and medical associations fear that teachers, nurses, doctors, and other essential workers will not be able to get to work.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government reportedly is responding to the shortage of drivers by issuing thousands of temporary visas to foreign workers, with the Labour shadow chancellor and others claiming that Brexit was in part to blame because the UK ended unlimited free movement with the continent. Olaf Scholz, the likely successor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, appeared to be gloating over the shortage, saying: “The free movement of labour is part of the European Union, and we worked very hard to convince the British not to leave the union.”
There is a gasoline shortage in the United Kingdom. There is a shortage of truckers in Europe.
