Renton 17852 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Actually watching that clip from IDS makes me sick. Care workers are low value people who take from British Society? I fucking know who the real parasites are. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19878 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 It’s quite incredible to see a Tory government - the party of business, strength and stability - preside over queues at petrol stations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6441 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19878 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Sorry everyone, it turns out immigrants are actually quite useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10029885/Ambulance-crashes-car-waiting-fuel-petrol-stations-close.html Britain runs dry: Up to 90 per cent of forecourts are out of fuel and the rest are running out quickly Over to you Boris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 4964 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 6 hours ago, Dr Gloom said: Sorry everyone, it turns out immigrants are actually quite useful The daily mail comment section has the answer though - force those people on benefits to do these jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26550 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Driving through London today it was shocking. 80% of the forecourts were closed and the rest had 1/2 mile queues. It was dystopian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30517 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 There are no fuel shortages though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26550 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 This is normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob toonpants 3612 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Looks like wfh for me tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34801 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 We were out yesterday and genuinely had to go and fill up cos car was about to run out. Tesco at KP had completely run out of normal unleaded and only had premium left. I splashed out cos I'm a gangsta but the place was bedlam. What a winter we've got in store here. I'm now with Octopus Energy as all Avro customers have been hoyed across. They seem like good lads so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Boris calling in the army. What a "ruddy good chap" he is https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10031025/Boris-calls-Army-Hundreds-soldiers-scrambled-drive-fuel-trucks.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26550 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30517 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Blame it on the boogie? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Looks like Schnapps will be told to sod off. This from The Mirror ... The drivers who he hopes to attract say the Government’s offer is not tempting. Imran Mustafa, 32, who lives in Barcelona, said: “I would move but not for three months. “It’s not enough time as we don’t know the roads, the maps or how it all works. “...French people, German people, Spanish people, they’re already earning a lot of money, so why would they move to the UK for three months only on a temporary visa?” HGV driver Mehmet Ozalp, 28, from Turkey, recently relocated to live in Germany. He added: “I would only move for at least six months and above. “If you’re moving thousands of kilometres, it shouldn’t be just for three months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26550 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 24 minutes ago, trooper said: Boris calling in the army. What a "ruddy good chap" he is https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10031025/Boris-calls-Army-Hundreds-soldiers-scrambled-drive-fuel-trucks.html That sounds great, Boris is fixing the problem he created. Except the army has 2,000 HGV drivers. 40% of them are reservists so guess what their day job is? We don't know how many of those 2,000 are actually in the country. We also don't know how many of them have the extra qualifications required to transport fuel. I'm beginning to think that this may not be the fix Johnson thinks it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26550 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 On 24/09/2021 at 15:53, Gemmill said: The ones with bulldog spirit will come. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30517 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Just a rhetorical question, obviously but when has any mid-sized country with an ageing population ever been able find enough workers without immigration? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26550 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 1 minute ago, Alex said: Just a rhetorical question, obviously but when has any mid-sized country with an ageing population ever been able find enough workers without immigration? It's nothing to do with immigration, have you forgotten about the pingdemic? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30517 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, Rayvin said: The daily mail comment section has the answer though - force those people on benefits to do these jobs. Not that it needs explaining to most on here but anyone who’s ever spent much time working in a job centre will tell you a lot of the people they see who are classed as unemployed are basically unemployable, for a variety of reasons. The idea everyone on the dole could be trained (even ignoring the amount of time needed) as chefs, HGV drivers, nurses, lab technicians, whatever is pure pie in the sky. Mostly believed by people with large pensions who were able to retire in their 50s Edited September 27, 2021 by Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12775 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Reckon at this point, Johnson would consider calling in the army if there was a cat stuck up a tree. He’s obsessed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30517 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 21 minutes ago, ewerk said: It's nothing to do with immigration, have you forgotten about the pingdemic? Not about immigration, that’s why the suggested solution is to relax immigration rules. As for your point the: the army, I think it would require the whole of the army (inc reserves) to be HGV drivers to plug the gap. That’s if they were available anyway (and not already HGV drivers as their day job, as you point will apply to some of those reserve numbers). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) I like they way they keep banging on about there being plenty of fuel. Undoubtedly there is but the problem is transporting it Edited September 27, 2021 by trooper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1496718/uk-petrol-shortage-schools-forced-to-close-fuel-prices-queues-latest Schools may have to close this week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 https://news.sky.com/story/climate-protesters-insulate-britain-block-m25-near-heathrow-12419489 Doing their bit to help drivers conserve petrol 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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