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Anicdote. Just got a cab. Driver said petrol stations unusually busy.

Do people buy extra fuel in gerry cans, is that a thing? I presume rather just filling up today rather than in a week or so?
 
Anicdote. Just got a cab. Driver said petrol stations unusually busy.

Do people buy extra fuel in gerry cans, is that a thing? I presume rather just filling up today rather than in a week or so?

I dont think its that common - its more that if everyone fills up - the pumps run dry. And everyone is going to fill up. 😕
 
that happened quite a lot, i saw a few of those help yourself stories, but there's a limit to what you can do with fifty thousand cougettes as anyone with an allotment knows.
And a lot of the farms are literally out in the middle of nowhere.
 
weeks of disruption to food supplies & Johnson couldn't care less. one day of disruption to petrol stations & he's all over it. interesting.


Boris Johnson has given the go-ahead to ministers to relax UK immigration rules to allow more foreign truck drivers into the country to ease shortages at petrol stations and wider economic disruption.

One person close to the situation said the prime minister had issued instructions to fix the escalating problem. “Boris wants this solved,” he said. Meanwhile an ally of Johnson said: “Boris is completely fed up with bad headlines on this and wants it sorted and doesn’t care about visa limits any more.”

that "doesn't care about visas anymore" has interesting implications for where the post-Brexit trade deals, etc will be going. suspect we'll end up with immigration numbers exactly as before, even if the passport breakdown of that is a bit different. despite everything the leave campaigns stood for and promised.
 
Given lorry drivers often have to sleep in lay-bys / shit in hedges I can’t imagine they’d hurry back if they have equivalent pay more locally.
 
weeks of disruption to food supplies & Johnson couldn't care less. one day of disruption to petrol stations & he's all over it. interesting.




that "doesn't care about visas anymore" has interesting implications for where the post-Brexit trade deals, etc will be going. suspect we'll end up with immigration numbers exactly as before, even if the passport breakdown of that is a bit different. despite everything the leave campaigns stood for and promised.

You don’t fuck with the pumps or with houses. Governments have been fellating car owners and home owners for so long and making society all about them that the slightest ripple causes absolute fucking rage when things go wrong for them
 
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