Pictures from the last days from the British Isles are already circulating around the world. Huge queues to petrol stations in the UK are a side effect of the lack of people willing to work when delivering petrol. The gaps aren’t huge, but the islanders have a psychology for the crowd. And in the background we have another negative effect of leaving the European Union. They wanted Brexit? They have it now.
Queues to gas stations in the UK
It started a few days ago, innocently enough. Some petrol stations in the UK have posted ‘End of fuel’ cards. The gasoline has not been delivered because the number of people willing to work on its transport has decreased in recent months. The drivers became so few that it was not possible to get fuel everywhere with fuel on time. When the news about the shortages at the stations began to circulate in the media, the snowball effect appeared. The British, although they did not need it at all, rushed to refuel en masse. Huge, sometimes several kilometers long queues started to line up in front of the stations. As if Britain would run out of fuel at all. Which is not true – there is gasoline, only … there is no one to deliver it.
Of course, we have as many arguments as there are commentators about the reasons for this. Those closely related to the government, or supporters of Brexit, claim that it was all because of the pandemic, which reduced the number of people willing to work. There are clear voices from the opposite side of the political scene: this the effects of Brexit exactly! After all, it is thanks to him that it is much more difficult for migrants to start a new life on the islands, and they usually make up a large part of the people employed in transport. What we also have evidence in another area of life – it is about empty shelves in the UK, which is also the result of the trucks not arriving on time.
The government takes a step back
How is the British government responding to the crisis? Well, it issues a decision under which 5000 temporary visas for drivers from abroad will be issued. They are to come to Great Britain and save the country from a transport collapse. Yes, you read it right, the supposedly evil and terrible migrants, who caused the proud United Kingdom to leave this rotten community, must go to the rescue. Because the British don’t have food on the shelves, and fuel suddenly has become something worth its weight in gold. A chuckle of fate, right? Those who have warned on the islands about Brexit must now have bitter satisfaction.
The fuel crisis is probably not the last problem for Great Britain Brexit in 2021 year. Of course, when leaving the union, no one foresaw a pandemic, and in this context, the entire blame cannot be blamed on the decision makers. But the facts are that a country that has relied on migrants for decades cannot become immediately independent of them. Therefore, maybe and “Brexit is done”But London has no choice but to ask for a helping hand, among others, from the European Union countries. Now imagine what would happen if a poorer country, not a world power, like Great Britain, left the community. For example, recently aspiring to do so (through the mouth of its rulers)?
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