Boris' petrol shortage solution ......

....... Blows up in his face !!!



EU lorry union rep says drivers won't return to help UK: It’s 's**t they created themselves'

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27 September 2021, 5:40 pmEU lorry drivers are unlikely to take up Downing Street’s offer to come back to the UK, according to an official from the Netherlands-based FNV Union.

In response to a tanker driver shortage that has seen many petrol stations running on empty and a £30 purchase limit set up in many places, Boris Johnson's government has introduced a three-month visa scheme for 5,000 overseas drivers.

Yet Edwin Atema, the head of research and enforcement at the union, which represents drivers across the continent, said on Monday that overseas drivers would not be the UK anytime soon.

BBC Radio 4 Today host Mishal Husain asked him: “If the UK can put together a really compelling offer, then perhaps that is a way to attract either people back to the UK or people who have never driven in the UK?”

It's not what Radio 4 listeners wanted to hear but it gets the message across pic.twitter.com/CXLCdYtOa1

— Jono (@jonoread) September 27, 2021

Atema replied: “The EU workers we speak to will not go to the UK for a short-term visa to help the UK out of the sh*t they created themselves.”

The FNV leader added: “It’s not like offering a visa … and the issue will be solved. Drivers need way more than a visa and a pay slip.”

While Atema’s words suggest Brexit is a major reason behind the driver shortages, it is only one of several factors involved.

The pandemic and conditions working as an HGV driver have contributed to other driver shortages across the rest of Europe too in an industry "plagued by exploitation."

Atema claimed: “The industry is positively regulated, but that is not worth the paper it is written on. There is no enforcement.

“Even the use of toilet facilitation is an issue.”

He alleged “you go back a century” in living conditions as an HGV driver across western Europe, adding: “Companies see drivers merely as extension of the vehicle.”

Atema also suggested that just improving pay would not fix the issues.

He said: “Yeah so in the short-term I think that will be a dead end.

“I think some kind of Marshall plan would be needed to take the whole industry back to the surface.

“In the UK, there is not even a collective agreement for the whole road transport industry.

“It’s still up to individual employers to compete on working conditions.

“And that’s never a good sign to drag an industry back to the surface. More is needed.”

He added: “Pay is an important area, but it is not the only area.“

Another plan to solve the crisis, expected to be considered by Boris Johnson, would be for hundreds of soldiers to be used to deliver fuel to petrol stations running out of supplies amid panic buying and a shortage of drivers.

 

To fill every car in any town or city would take at least 2 weeks delivery quota.
The simple solution is to have a MINIMUM purchase of 75% of the fuel tank capacity.
All the idiots would disappear overnight.

This was done during the fuel shortage in the 1970s and it worked perfectly.

Needless to say, common sense would need to be applied.

 

There are so many sheep who follow the media creating a fear factor that just isn't there.
People initally went a bit daft when this was first announced, though this seems to have calmed down around my locale, that being said, I guess th instant increase in prices may also be a factor.

 

But there are still IDIOTS around !!!


Police mock idiot drivers who spent three hours queuing to get into a petrol station - which was CLOSED

27 September 2021, 7:05 pmCops mocked panic-buying motorists who queued for three hours today (Mon) to get into a petrol station – which was CLOSED.

Officers were scrambled to the remote village of Burnaston, Derbys., to reports of queuing traffic causing long tailbacks on the busy A516.

Cops found more than 100 drivers trying to get into an unmanned Gulf petrol station which was closed due to vandals attacking the pumps.

Derbyshire Police took to Facebook to mock the drivers “fuel-ish” behaviour.

Writing on the force’s Swadlincote Police SNT page, they said: “We were called to a rural garage near Burnaston today following reports of queues of traffic in the local area.

“Arriving at the unmanned petrol station on the extremely fast-flowing A516 roadway, officers observed long queues of cars attempting to enter the petrol station.


The garage was not open to the public and was unable to serve fuel.
“Bizarrely, it soon became clear that the drivers had been queuing at a petrol station for several hours despite the fact that the garage was not open to the public and was unable to serve fuel following unknown persons who had caused damage to some of the petrol and diesel pumps.”

Police attempted to explain the situation to drivers who had been sitting in their cars for “over three hours”.

They added: “With regret, officers, who were stood outside in pouring rain directing traffic, were subjected to abuse and a series of inexplicable excuses of why they needed to enter a closed garage that was unable to sell fuel.

“An investigation is underway to locate two men in a white van who made threats to an officer at the scene after they were asked to leave the petrol station.”