The UK government says it’s working to ensure fuel supply issues are resolved, following days of long queues at petrol stations, with many forced to close.
Pressure is on the government to solve the problem as tension increases and polls suggest voters believe the government is mishandling the crisis.
There have been reports the army may be brought in to drive tankers, because of a shortage of drivers.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons reports from London.
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Brexit seems to be a curse.
funny, they kick out the Eastern Europeans who come here to pick vegetables, labour on building sites and drive trucks, and bring in Hong Kong’ers, Somali’s, Afghans, Syrians, Libyans etc, then start buying 4 + 5 bed houses for them, giving them benefit and paying for lawyers to allow them to fight the extradition system.
The whole place has gone mad.
LITTLE BRITAIN IS EATING WHAT THEY COOKED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS
Roasted foreigners?
This is the end of transportation. Phase one. Distrupt oil distribution.
Same like Lebanon
Uk+lebAnon=dry fuel
This simple answer for this is simple , UK should offer free visas to India. We will help the British out like we did in ww1, ww2 and in the 60s.
Me on my Tesla 👍👍👍👍👍😎
Such news from the wealthiest country ?Fake..
Crying for fuel. Funny. Weak folks. Come to india. U will get million reasons to cry !
Brexit means brexit lol
Why cry over fuel? Come on man. Grow up.
lol she is crying because her fuel ran out in the middle of the road where by its an everyday scenario in africa
Uk government is really stupid !!!! Why brexit?? Now look at wat is happening in the country… pride ehhhhhhhhh
Problem Reaction Solution
This will push even faster electrification of cars. Charge at home/work/on road and forget fuel delivery problems!
BREXIT.Never stops being funny.
Ah the benefits of JIT supply chains meeting the reality of neoliberalism’s cannibalism of the state. Beautiful.
A certain Middle Eastern country will soon be suspected of having weapons of mass destruction.
I hope the fuel will be missed forever, we might survive climate change.
Their own fault better buy an Electiric Car, in the case of emergency your hamster can charge it.
Let’s drive 500 miles to find fuel 🤣 🤣
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UK becoming another Lebanon lol?
Just call it your own personal Brexit Dividend along with shortages in the supermarkets.
Poland is short of 120000 truck drivers
Polish drivers not going to UK either.
Turn the useless bankers into truck drivers and problem solved.
That woman cried because of gas???? Go to Afghanistan honey !!!! Then you’ll see true horror
Please fight more Britain so you can see what people of Middle east have seen bec of you.
Up next. Boomerang shortage leaves thousands wondering when they will return.
Reason why shortage?
At Least now they can travel by bus and train.
This country how it created my country Somalia to use Kenyan country to attack I’m so happy now it’s their time to suffer.
Thanks to Brexit
The polititians are playing this down and they shouldn’t. The fact is anywhere you go, there’s no petrol so it’s not just a few pumps.
Not to mention that 50,000 petrol stations in the uk are meant to turn into charger electric stations by 2025 so 3years left to fill your motors up people
This is economics. Pay your drivers more. Problem solved.
This is a brilliant example of how these climate change meeting are so governments are only there for photo opportunities; especially Boris Johnson blah blah blah the Britain governments as full of BS to limit fossil fuels usage or even finding alternatives.
You cried because you couldn’t get fuel? Jesus christ
You wanted eastern europiens to leave the uk, cose they are stealing your jobs. Welcome to brexit, know you got plenty free job spaces 🤩🤩🤩
Never learned before ,never learn now, U.K will soon be on its KNEES , Keep Panicking, YES keep it up then you all will be slaves . You Never learn to stop Causing Pain to yourselves. ME first Me Last, thats your attitude. Then what next , it is TOO late when the Country STOPS . What then say SORRY . TOO Late. Just Take all Every Drop of Fuel. SELFISH , cannot be warned Lot.
COME on then PANIC Cigarettes only few left on shop Shelves Cough your Heart up Then ,
Panic Buy.
Cars off the road – gov taking their green pledges seriously. (This is a joke). Not to mention getting us off gas.
YOU KNEW ALL THIS WOULD HAPPEN. YOU DIDN’T WANT TO BE PART OF EUROPE, WELL… PAY THE CONSEQUENCES.
SIMPLY SEAT AND WAIT… FOR THE END (NO FOOD, NO JOBS, NO FUTURE)
Brits should drive their tanker trucks:-)
LOL I’m in the North of England and see no queues.
90% indeed.
There is some queuing, and I would guess 15% of pumps may be empty.
But 90% would only occur after nuclear Armageddon.
Government fault, for saying don’t buy fuel.
As soon as you say that, people go and panic buy fuel. Which happened, when will government/Conservatives learn.
Those who voted brexit back of the queue please!
So sad
thus Saudi Arabia got another bestie
Where are the brexit voters cueing up for the jobs ?
All down to some plonker in the driving union/spokesperson pedalling fake news……
It’s understandable if a politician tells you to not panic buy its obvious the opposite will happen…. politicians are lieing cheating bastards, as if anyone is going to listen to them. If anything you do the opposite… that’s what’s happened. TBH the only time a politician should be surprised is if someone agrees with them.
The Gulf War and the occupation of Iraq were done for free oil
lol she gets emotional and cries over fuel shortage .. Head over to Iran for a change and see how people deal with relentless crises from eggs shortage to fuel, electricity, Internet, vaccine, basic medication etc, making jokes over their latest scarcity on social media ..
why have cars anyway, just build long lanes for bikes and pedestrians to go cross country…a moving walkway in a hyperloop, green as anything, walkalator, autowalk, movator LOL
funny how we raise our noses at jobs we cannot survive 2 days without. no fuel, no food is next…. but i’d rather work ‘online’ than drive a truck… i hope the snowflakes starve to death.
Brexit..no more cheap Labourers from the EU. And the Brits themselves are too good to do the job. Bad decisions of Johnson and his administration means suffering for the Brits.
We are interdependent and not independent beings.
This country has no brains… really.
The public has created its own shortage so no surprise there.
Up to 90%=we have no idea
Dear British 🇬🇧,
Stop mess with China 🇨🇳 and Russia 🇷🇺.
America will not help 🇬🇧 economic growth.
What a wonderful world
Incompetent leader is the main cause.
ask the useless royal family to drive the trucks. So many pointless jobs in the UK. Ask the soldiers in your army to drive them!
Buy donkey and ride for free.
Complete total bollocks….
Walk girl.
what cry.
what cry.
pathetic
Have fun getting to work Brexiteers 🤣
Believe in “Karma”. Years of imperialism & looting of so many countries, it’s time for them test the salt they have planted.
I don’t know where the up to 90% number comes from but it is not true up here in the North of England. Can you back up that 90% or did you just nick it from some other dopey news outlet?
Tesla is dancing with this news…
Hahahahaha
PROJECT FEAR 😂🤣😂😆😆
Where’s our spaceship supposedly fly us to planet Mars with unlimited supply of fossil fuels? Ikr. You too stuck here on earth with rest of us. Never too late to join in the party. Come have a seat, relax, sip this margarita, enjoy the first worlds deteriorate 😆😆😆
If this shows anything it should be a wake-up call to all, when a little thing like this happens everything falls apart, I dread to think what people will do in a real disaster…..
I applaud the young generation for not taking these jobs. If bankers go on strike nobody would notice, but lets see how you survive without food on the shelves.
This is just the begining !
You are going to bare the consequences of voting in favor of brexit…
Am feeling very bad for you people
Greetings from Europe
Well done brexiteers👏👏
Cried because car ran out of fuel? You live good lives that side,
Lets just take a moment to appreciate all the immigrants who are part of the backbone to run an economy.
Great reset ? The whole thing is engineered to bring about the green BS ..How about telling the facts for once ?
much enjoy the benefit of breexit
My car was empty so got some fuel last night, took me only 30 minutes.
Johnson, Kwarteng, Shapps, Eustice live in cloud cuckoo land……go out and try and buy diesel like I have done today 7 garages 6 were closed 1 open but but no diesel …….they’ve been told to say its getting better…….today its worse. IDIOTS all of em !
BRIXIT should be renamed: the Johnson WRECKIT.
Like a scene of the walking dead. A pandemic and then people fighting for food and petrol
People treat truck driving a lesser job. Now the country is at grindlock due to their absence. Every job is important.
Africa has so many truck drivers. Let Britain reach out and we shall offer the services
I doubt the ‘panic buying’ explanation. Commuters biggest user so they all brim their tanks and don’t need fuel for rest of the week. The problem will be corporate just-in-time logistics and their Globalist clown-world antics. So, of course, Brexit!
Look how the population of this country is swelling with foreigners and their needs. Answer to that is, of course, to dish out visas.
Pump A usually 10 customers.
Pump B usually 10 customers
Pump C usually 10 customers.
Pump A. No delivery and shut down.
Pump B. 50% capacity
Now there’s a queue at pump C which equals 25 customers in a queue.
People need fuel. Simple as. There’s no panic buying. Don’t blame the drivers.
“Very emotional, I cried” for fks sake, people are nothing more than over reacting Muppets. What fkn short supply, you mean the one thats over as soon as it started LOL, fkn idiots will report on anything today. As much as you want to buy where I live..
Who would go through all the trouble needed to obtain a visa to work in the UK for just 3 months to then be kicked out again at Christmas because “forerigners” are not wanted in the UK any more?
As a Dutch HGV driver put it: “I spoke with colleagues and none of them will go to the UK to help them out of the s… they created themselves.”
Looks like Lebanon.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
imagine crying about gas. People have a lot more worst issues in places like Palestine. I just wasted 3 minutes of my life watching this dumb report haha
But its not brexit fault! I am rolling on my sofa sitting at home and sipping my italian coffee. No issues where i am with petrol or any sort of shortages. And imagine these ppl introduced 3 months temp visas to lure drivers in. Nobody wants your visas! Europe moved on and nobody cares about little englanders! Just on a side note lets wait till summer when fruit picking season hits. But its not brexit fault lol