https://twitter.com/Marlon_Davis/status/1441810263385133059?s=19
Saw a similar situation brew yesterday when I was on my morning run. Van guy lost his shit at a guy on a motorbike coming from the other direction not alternating entry to the forecourt. He got out was shoving and squaring up, but then I guess it's hard to win a fist fight with someone in a crash helmet, so he got back in his van and settled for bawling swearwords.
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https://twitter.com/drjennings/status/1441910546299703296?s=19
I guess we'll see free petrol by the end of the week.
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It’s crazy busy everywhere. Queues backing up to the main roads at 8pm last night.
Something is stirred, deep within the British loins, by the sight of a queue.
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Yeah, but the panic buying shows a deep-seated mistrust of our government. If Boris said we had adequate supplies of fresh air, with 12 hrs there'd be punch-up in the Tupperware aisle as people demand extra containers.
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Sit tight. As long as you’ve got enough in the tank to get to the supermarket and back a few times. Everyone is still stuck at home, right?
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Are we all going to be asked to wfh again because the tozzas can't keep petrol stations running? If there is no supply shortage and it's just logistics then get the army in.
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Think they're gonna let EU truckers come here and work like demons for 3 months solid, without their families and friends, to save our Christmas. I'm sure they'll do that.
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The people we made sleep on Manston runway last Christmas? Sure
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All station in my town and nearby are empty.
Queued up at a truck stop last night for 1.5 hours to fill up diesel. Lorry drivers were not happy.
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All shut here too. Gr8 apocalypse training, tbf. It's like the old "I don't have to outrun the tiger, I just have to outrun you..." joke.
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Just learn to live without petrol. It's better for your bank balance, health and the environment.
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None around here - went to 3 yesterday at 8am and today went to one at 7am. I was almost out when this crisis hit so that's the problem and not being rich enough to live in inner London options rich people there have are not available out here.
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No problem in France for my week of wind powered holiday.
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Mrs Avi filled up @0800 this morning at the A1M servs up the road. All other local stations empty.
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The media has headlines saying there is going to be a petrol shortage. Three days later there is one. The media says See, we told you so. Not that we largely caused it or anything.
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Err BP and Esso had to close forecourts because of lack of supply. The media reported it. People then started panic buying because of shortages. This has exacerbated the problem but not caused it. The cause is largely brexit.
If you are saying the media shouldn't report the news that's a different story.
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There's also the Stanlow refinery on the brink of collapse. It supplies 17% of UK stock.
https://news.sky.com/story/stanlow-refinery-owner-faces-new-financial-c…
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There is absolutely a shortage in central London.
I've just been to the old girls house and all 4 petrol stations I went passed were empty.
I assume there is no deliveries on a Sunday anyway so likely to get worse until tomorrow?
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That's interesting Jelly.
But seems they are paying all but 150m of the debt so can't see the advantage to the govt in bankrupting them?
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I filled mine up this morning fine. I had to drive the wife’s yesterday since I couldn’t get fuel for mine. A minor issue.
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Jels what on earth is an "old girls house"?
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[Biggie mode on]
I live in Dubai.
A man in a truck comes to my house to fill my car up with petrol.
https://www.cafu.com/
[Biggie mode off]
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Get the army involved. They have nothing else to do. But who would train to be a lorry driver nowadays? You know that within 5 years the majority of HGVs will be driven by AI. It’ll all be done in the middle of the night too and will be great for the rest of us, but not so good for lorry drivers.
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The reports say the UK needs 100,000 HGV drivers.
The army has 2000 HGV drivers. And it probably needs a few of them for army stuff, and not all of them are in the UK.
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HGV drivers have to have an additional qualification to deliver fuel and other hazardous products. You can't just get any old HGV driver to do it
Despite brexit we had enough suitably qualified drivers last week, this does seem to be a run on the bank style panic
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This is true jelly, but the 2000 army drivers could just lurch from crisis to crisis, playing shortage whackamole. Today, get petrol sorted. Next week, oh no pumpkins! November, there's a run on fireworks ffs, get the army in. December, holy shit turkeys and toys are scarce.
None of this stuff is predictable so we just have to take each Tory fook up on the chin. And elsewhere on the face.
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Yes, what RR says. This is apparently only a minor crisis right now so the army peeps should be brought in to plug the gaps wherever they spring.
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The old girl = mother.
You guys really are posh aren't you?!
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Trust a few. Fear the rest.
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I just did a 90mile drive into London - drove past maybe 12 or 13 petrol stations. Only one had fuel and that had queue into the lane of the motorway
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Seems fine here. Maybe everyone in London is just a bit of a fanny
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It's really interesting watching people ageing and getting more right wing in real time. What's going on here is a political failure of epic proportions but middle aged lefties who are doing alright are barely raising an eyebrow.
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Sorry I meant "lefties"
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Just got some, drove straight to the pump, filled up, paid, took probably no more than 5 mins.
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How’s it a “political failure” that the media over sensationalised a BP press release? There was no issue with petrol supplies last week nor is there any real issue now, it’s just morons panic buying.
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People inherently don't trust the Tories so fear makes them do it. If a competent govt said - don't worry, the supply is here, the electorate would believe it.
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Remember when something similar happened under Blair? Nope.
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Financial Times reporting between 50 and 85% of filling stations are empty. I guess some places are running behind the trend. Hopefully they'll catch up soon.
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"Remember when something similar happened under Blair? Nope."
I remember fuel shortages in 2000 and having to choose whether to go to a friends wedding reception because we might not make it back, yes
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Heh, fair enough. That was when we had drivers to block supplies rather than no drivers to, well, supply supplies.
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it's fooking morons panic buying, who won't need to fill cars for another 3 weeks. it will be done and dusted by next weekend
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Why are we suddenly greenlighting thousands of emergency visas if there isn't a structural issue? Ditto calling up the army?
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Lockdown is the only solution. We must not overwhelm our service stations.
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People are on a hair trigger because of the past 18 months. Plus this shitshow government has totally legitimised selfishness and uncertainty. And it’s on the back of food shortages. Yes the media are shit, but that’s not news ;)
If you infantilise the populace this is what happens.
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Heh, seeing riot vans parked up at some petrol stations up here. Absolutely fücking mental.
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What i dont understand about this is how it happened so suddenly, did a load of drivers just retire or leave.
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Presumably all these people now have enough petrol for the foreseeable
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I struggled to get an Uber today - apparently no one is out as they can’t get petrol
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I filled up unwittingly early Friday morning. Two hours later it went completely apeshit. This fücking place sometimes.
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The haulage companies replaced British drivers with Latvian drivers and are now amazed that Brexit means they have to pay a living wage. So they blame the Government.
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Haulage has been a race to the bottom for years.
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Meanwhile you can build your own model of an Eddie Stobart artic for only £1,400.
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Government gaslighting on an epic scale here and most people seem to be falling for it
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There’s the solution. Staring us in the face.
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Build your own truck
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Deliver it yourself.
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Can drones help too?
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let’s do the show right here!
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Lollers. Form a square around the tozzas. As if it's their job to predict and plan for this consequence of their policies? They are the real victims here when you think about it.
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Is it perhaps part of baldrician plan to avoid tail backs at Dover?
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Oh we’re cancelled in Dover. Don’t worry, it’s not a big haulage town.
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The RHA and it’s members knew we voted to take back control in 2016. They had plenty of time to start getting British drivers into lorries but chose not to. It would it surprise me if the RHA was controlled by remainiacs and Labour supporters.
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"living wage".
We're the working for more or less than the Tory set minimum wage?
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What Scep Tick said. One of the weirdest things about Brexit is watching self-professed lefties line up with big business against the working man.
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😂😂😂
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The IR35 changes are also impacting supplies of “self employed” lorry drivers. Like a sewage junction with shit coming from many different directions.
Just went to get some diesel for Mrs G. Gave it large including flicking the Vs at someone who pushed in (from the safety of the car) then chortled as they pulled up to a pump at the front that turned out not to have whatever they were after meaning they had to pull out the front and go back and queue again.
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Also heh @ this not happening under Blair.
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Shapps is absolutely robust here. Squarely blaming the RHA and making it clear that we don’t want to rely on foreign labour.
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😂
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Cryppers simping for shapps is the content we love to see
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🤣🤣 This is great keep going. Who decided to go ahead with the new ir35 rules in April? I just want to know who to blame. Was it labour? Maybe Change UK?
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I don’t remember the lefties opposing the IR35 reform.
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Can we use British Unicorns to deliver fuel and food?
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I bet Jelly has filled up all of his Jerry cans, panic buying like fvck.
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Chill will be trying to work out how to wash his petrol.
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Aww this is better than TV. The tozza club is launching shit into the fan and taking gobfuls of the excretia flying back at them in the hope that one spec falls on someone else. So far not working, but please keep going!
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Just glad we didn't go for that chaos with Ed.
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Always the victims, it’s never their fault
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Look at Ed eating a bacon sandwich. We could never have a leader who embarrassed us. Imagine him on a zip line!
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I was in Chelsea this afternoon and only say 1 filling station with fuel; the Tesco Esso just after Chelsea & West Hospital - there was a queue of about 25 cars either side of the entrance. There were a number of muscle cars in the queue; Bentleys and Range Rovers; Chelsea types innit. Bet that filling station will be empty very shortly.
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