Empty shelves: Boris Johnson created the shortages with his stupid Brexit – as this satirical image makes clear. Now he’s scrambling to find short-term solutions because he’s upset that the backlash is harming his popularity.
Boris Johnson’s idiocy has painted him into a corner so tight that his only choices make him look even more blindingly daft.
His Brexit stopped EU haulage drivers from working in the United Kingdom and this led to a worsening of the shortage the country was already facing.
Johnson refused to put HGV drivers on the list of those who would be allowed to work in the UK, saying that the country (in fact, only a quarter of current UK citizens) had voted to end freedom of movement.
How true those words became!
Now we have no freedom to move groceries…
No freedom to move other goods…
And because fuel tankers aren’t reaching filling stations, no freedom to move at all. On this, Johnson’s Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, tried to assure motorists that there was no crisis – and they ignored him, sparking mass-hysteria panic-buying.
This response from the public indicates that the population at large has no confidence in government claims.
That’s what happens when a prime minister lies constantly – and leads a government of liars.
Now, Johnson is planning a U-turn, saying he will put EU drivers on the visa scheme allowing them to work in the UK.
So he is making a liar of himself – again.
And he is saying the scheme will be restricted to 5,000 drivers – nothing near the 100,000 who are needed.
If he’s saying this will be enough, he’s making a double liar of himself.
That’s according to haulage bosses:
Toby Ovens, managing director of Broughton Transport Solutions, said he is not convinced a temporary visa scheme will solve the current shortage of HGV drivers.
This is just another Tory bid to hoodwink us.
Johnson is saying what he thinks will calm us down: “All is well. We are solving the problem. Go home. Go back to sleep.” That sort of thing.
He’s just looking for short-term relief from the pressure this situation has created – not on the UK’s transport infrastructure, but on him.
He doesn’t like the fact that people are – rightly – blaming him for a crisis that would not have happened if he had not insisted on forcing on us all a Brexit deal that he had not even read.
And This Writer doesn’t think for a moment that it will do him any good.
Because we know we can’t trust him and his promises are worthless.
Lorries without drivers: news outlets are finally admitting the shortage is due to Brexit. Boris Johnson won’t like that!
This is an important admission from The Independent, although it lags a considerable time behind some of us in the social media.
The newspaper’s article Brexit food shortages could ‘cancel Christmas’ and last into 2022 acknowledges – in its headline – that Brexit is responsible for the emptying of your local supermarket’s shelves – not Covid-19.
It states:
Britain’s post-Brexit supply chain crisis could “cancel Christmas” and continue to cause food shortages well into 2022, industry leaders have warned.
Boris Johnson’s government has been urged to ease immigration rules so some EU citizens who left the UK during Brexit can return and help fill major gaps in the workforce.
The RHA [Road Haulage Association] estimates that up to 20,000 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers from the EU left during Brexit.
Tom Southall, policy officer at the Cold Chain Federation, said Brexit was partly to blame for recruitment problems across the food sector – predicting that it would be 2022 before the nation begins to get to grips with the backlog of vacancies for drivers, pickers and processors.
Norfolk food firm Alfred G Pearce, which grows and processes vegetables, is also struggling with labour shortages, having seen its workforce reduced 20 per cent to 30 per cent down after EU employees returned home during the Brexit process.
Bryan Roberts, retail analyst at Shopfloor Insights, said it would take time to train new workers, even with a major recruitment drive. “Sadly I think things are only going to get worse in the run-up to Christmas and we’ve got a whole load more regulations coming in from Brexit in October,” he said.
Other news media have caught on and are starting to say the same:
ITV News at Ten very clear about cause of empty supermarket shelves. No walking on egg shells in by the reporter. Shortages caused by brexit.
— Simon Lewis🏴🇪🇺🔶#FBPA#FBPPR#FBPE (@simonapcliff) August 27, 2021
It seems people in the UK are finally turning the corner and realising that the way to conquer our differences with the EU was to remain a member state and argue for change (in a rational way, not a David Cameron do-as-I-say-or-I’ll-have-a-strop ultimatum) and not to walk out and end all the trade agreements and border deals we had in our favour.
Neighbour last night apologised for voting for brexit.
Brexit REALLY is as bad as billed – the emperor is wearing no clothes… time for the #Brexit perpetrators to admit it pic.twitter.com/SZQqGAMWvO
— Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU🕯#FBPA #FBPPR (@HelenTBracken) August 24, 2021
Of course, the shortage of lorry drivers would be over if Boris Johnson and his Tories would only make two decisions: first, they could swallow their misplaced pride and bring in drivers from the EU to cover the current shortfall; second, they should raise pay rates above subsistence level – otherwise there would be no reason for anybody to help out at all.
Looks like lorry drivers are yet another set of low-paid, "unskilled" workers that the country can't actually function without. It's almost like we should stop undervaluing workers and start paying people in accordance with their true contribution to society.
… but Johnson and his gang won’t impose these changes nationally because they themselves are not suffering. They don’t care about you and they never did.
So you see now that Brexit was created to engineer the very shortages you are experiencing today, deliberately, by Johnson and his Brexiteer Tories.
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It seems Boris Johnson’s government is thinking of letting convicted criminals – who are serving prison sentences – deliver lorry loads of goods to ease the driver shortage caused by Brexit (not Covid-19).
The option was tabled by the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers, which is apparently meeting with HM Prison Service this week (although I don’t know why. Most of the prisons are run by private companies these days, aren’t they?) to ask for lorry drivers to be prioritised on the Release on Temporary Licence (ROFL* ROTL) scheme.
The meeting comes after Nando’s had to close 45 fast food joints due to a shortage of chickens. In related news, McDonalds recently ran out of milkshakes.
And of course the nation is running out of patience.
But that didn’t stop ministers rejecting calls for temporary work visas to be handed to drivers from the European Union after overtures were made to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.
The response was clear – and clearly racist: “The British people repeatedly voted to end free movement and take back control of our immigration system and employers should invest in our domestic workforce instead of relying on labour from abroad.”
In other words: “We don’t want Johnny Foreigner coming over here and helping us out of a problem we created because of our racism against him! We’d rather cut off our noses to spite our faces!”
The statement continued: “We recently announced a package of measures to help tackle the HGV driver shortage, including plans to streamline the process for new drivers to gain their HGV licence and to increase the number of tests able to be conducted.”
In other words, new drivers will be trained to a lower standard, and tests will be of a lower quality, in order to put more drivers on our streets. And bring more death to our roads?
The alternative is the use of prisoners. You can read about it here and here.
Owain Gardner (below) makes some good points about it:
UK food firms beg ministers to let them use prisoners to ease labour shortages https://t.co/sga9fWDIhh WTF are we coming to when it reaches this point?
We’re coming to a point where we don’t mind who we trust to deliver our food – or what condition it may be in when it arrives. That’s why I don’t think such a scheme will work.
Which prisoners would the government allow to be used? What crimes would the government deem to be harmless enough to allow them to deliver food to us? How would they be supervised?
My guess is that the answers to these three questions are: any, all, and not at all.
And that creates a danger to us. It only takes one con with a chip on his shoulder to cause all kinds of problems. I’m sure I can leave the consequences to your imagination.
Oh, I’m exaggerating; overdramatising. Sure.
But we have prisons to stop dangerous people from doing dangerous things. This scheme will give them free rein to do it.
And I’m only wrong about this until something happens to prove me right.
*ROFL is of course an Internet acronym meaning “Rolling On the Floor Laughing”. I mention it because of its similarity to ROTL, and also to connect with Keir Starmer’s howler at his latest relaunch of his party leadership, in which he used the slogan “Winning The Future” (WTF). You’re probably aware that WTF is Internet-speak for “What The F***”.
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At least Metro couched its reporting of the government-sponsored lie by saying the crisis caused by the lack of lorry drivers “is thought to have been exacerbated by the so-called ‘pingdemic'”.
We know the shortage of lorry drivers has little to do with the government’s Covid-19 warning app on mobile phones, though, don’t we?
It happened because of Brexit; the drivers have all been sent back to the EU nations where they were born.
And now the army has been put on standby to deliver supplies to supermarkets.
That’s 2,000 qualified HGV drivers to make up an expected shortfall of 100,000. Does that seem realistic to you?
We all know the truth, and we’re all saying more or less the same thing:
A functioning country in peacetime DOES NOT NEED ITS ARMY TO DELIVER FOOD
— Eva Feltham 💙 3.5% REJOINER FBPE FBPA (@MyGineration) August 8, 2021
And they bloody love a flag! Who doesn’t want our food being delivered by people who put flags absolutely bloody everywhere?!
The country has been in disaster mode since Johnson was elected. Tragic decision by the electorate, most whom had already committed us to Brexit. Voted Leave + Voted Tory + would do both again – how many do we think quality? Ten million? More? Fewer?
Given the amount of HGV qualified drivers in the Army this is nothing but a sticking plaster. Same when they roll out the Green Goddesses. Desperate PR from a Govt trying to convince us it's in control.
— Manumission – Guitarist with Tout-á-Coup Jazz (@lockforward4) August 8, 2021
There is one conclusion to be drawn from this story.
It is that Metro is written by stenographers for government propagandists, rather than by proper reporters.
A lot of journalists — including one who had to post a “please retweet” apology yesterday — are jerking themselves silly over a piece that includes the following paragraph. I analyse reams of British journalism daily. The majority does not deliver on this hubristic ideal… pic.twitter.com/LSnyvmD1gV
“Journalists check our stories about what’s going on against the facts and give us different, more truthful angles.”
That certainly doesn’t seem to have happened here! A caveat that the problem “is thought to have been” due to the ‘pingdemic’ doesn’t cut any ice.
Aren’t we lucky to have journalism like that of Vox Political, here on the social media! And what a shame most people are too busy reading Metro to even give it a glance.
Here’s a thought:
Why not share this article with your friends, to show them what they’re missing?
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Sound and fury: but the 2011 riots signified nothing. The government of the day suffered absolutely no harm at all from all the burning and looting that people inflicted on each other.
Apparently it’s called multiple discovery.
At the moment, many people across the UK are discovering the idea that a good way to respond to the absolute, unforgivable uselessness of Boris Johnson and his entire Conservative government – on Covid-19, on Brexit, and – let’s face it – on every other policy they have touched with their soiled Tory hands…
… is to riot.
Silly, silly people.
Don’t get me wrong. Considering the circumstances, rioting might be thought to be a reasonable reaction.
But I was having this conversation with a very good friend of mine recently, and had to point out that Johnson and his mobster mates won’t give a fig if a riot happens, because they know the rioters won’t target anything that could possibly make a difference.
Look at the riots in 2011. What happened?
A lot of people took to the streets and caused a lot of damage – to shops, to public property, and to other people.
They didn’t cause any harm at all to the people or institutions they blamed for harming them – by which I mean David Cameron and the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government of the day.
None at all.
As I said to my friend, if I was going to riot, the first thing I’d do would be to ensure that the police could not get their people and vehicles out of their stations to put down the public expression of unrest.
I don’t know how to do this, so we’re already talking academically, rather than practically.
The next thing I’d do would be to target seats of government; bring down the systems they use to inflict their idiocy on the rest of us.
The last thing I would do is target the homes and persons – in London and/or in the wider UK – of particular politicians I would hold responsible for the wholesale harm being done to thousands of ordinary people in the UK every week.
I wouldn’t go near my fellow citizens who are also suffering, their property, and/or the means by which they earn their living.
That would be equivalent to self-harm.
But it is always the first resort of the rioter.
Still, right after I had this conversation, I found the following on Twitter:
It’s a good point. Johnson’s latest wheeze has been to prompt foreign countries into closing their borders to anybody coming from the UK. They say he has turned the country into a “Plague Island” (and they’re not wrong).
This means international hauliers have been stopped at the country’s borders and are now backing up along the UK’s roads and motorways.
Not only has the supply chain seized up…
… but there is an urgent health risk to the drivers themselves, who have no direct access to food, toilets or washing facilities.
My dad is a lorry driver. When he got stuck in Germany in the snow for 2 days, he was offered sandwiches, hot soups and drinks every couple of hours. To see all these lorry drivers stuck in Kent for the second day and given 1 breakfast yesterday, really breaks my heart.
Johnson simply didn’t think of these things before he announced to us all that his failures had laid the UK prey to a new, more virulent variant of Covid-19. He and his advisers are too stupid to understand the implications of their decisions.
Here’s another good point:
I am just going to say it, even though I don't like it, even though I still try to support them.
Petitions are not going to fix this pile of poop this country is in.
— Ms.expressioness@damnation #NotMeUs (@expressionessd1) December 22, 2020
In fact, it seems there is no outlet for the public to express our dissatisfaction with the way the government we elected has disgraced itself.
The mainstream media might broadcast interviews with people saying Johnson and his cronies have let us down but if our failed prime minister ever sees them, he’ll just laugh; people shouting at a camera can’t hurt him and they certainly won’t stop him.
He can ignore petitions.
Parliament is in recess for Christmas and he’s resisting demands for it to be recalled. He likes to do his business without democratic oversight, remember.
So what can you do?
….disabled people, those with underlying health conditions have been religiously self-isolating since March. There is an epidemic of loneliness, depression and anxiety, I see it all over social media, we all do. This could all have been avoided if the country….(2.
…..PPE contracts awarded left, right and centre, to people associated with the Tory Party, a free-for-all cronyist 'chumocracy'…..the list of ineptitude goes on and on, the criminality and corruption festers and lingers like a rotting corpse….(4.
We can fall into a vortex of “loneliness, depression and anxiety”.
Believe me, Boris Johnson would be delighted by that result!
If you’re disgusted with everything he has done, you probably won’t want to please him in this way.
So the question arises:
What are you going to do?
It’s Christmas. You’re on a break. There’s a bit of time for you to make a decision.
Better make it a good one.
Because if it isn’t…
You may never see another Christmas.
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In his latest car-crash (please don’t groan) TV press conference, Boris Johnson told us that he had taken action to reduce the number of lorries queuing in Kent to be transported to continental Europe, as both the UK and the EU prepare for new trading conditions from January.
Oh, really?
What are all these, then?
This would make a brilliant establishing shot for a disaster movie. They could call it ‘Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’. pic.twitter.com/zVO6Rul2S4
Those of you who saw the broadcast might be saying, “Ah, but! Johnson was referring to lorries on the M20 – and that’s some airport runway, from the look of it!”
Yes indeed. These appear to be the overspill from the M20 – lorries that have been diverted to park elsewhere.
But it doesn’t mean that Johnson wasn’t misleading us. Oh, and let’s make it clear – it’s Boris Johnson who made the misleading statement (this for the benefit of the BBC):
Boris Johnson (again) misled the country saying plans put in place by his Gov’t had reduced lorries waiting on M20 from 500 to only 170
It was completely false
Today journalists seem to be suggesting it was only transport Secretary who said it!
Highways England has confirmed that 900 lorries were on the M20 in Kent on Monday evening – not the 174 that Boris Johnson had claimedhttps://t.co/SHnWbnbTO7
The tailback was precipitated by Johnson’s (him again!) announcement on Saturday (December 19) that he was cancelling a planned relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for Christmas because of the unexpected virulence of a new mutation of the virus – a situation of which, it transpires, he has only been aware for four months (since late September).
The international response from around 40 countries now has been to close their borders to any and all traffic to and from the UK – hence the queue in Kent.
The advantage of being an island is that if you control your borders early you can keep the virus out. On the other hand, if you fail to control the pandemic, everyone else can close their borders to keep you out.
Today in his briefing @BorisJohnson said that there had been 500 lorries queuing in Kent but because of their preparations it is now 170. Since then Kent County Council have confirmed the number is in fact in excess of 500, not 170. There was no need to lie. It’s pathological.
One aspect of this situation that isn’t being discussed by Johnson is the fact that he is creating a huge health risk by failing to provide emergency food and sanitation facilities for more than a thousand stranded lorry drivers:
Those hundreds of truck drivers backed up in Kent don't have access to loos or showers. That's a health risk for you, right there.
Stranded drivers say a lack of facilities is creating a dire situation as the new Covid strain leaves them unable to enter France. https://t.co/Txi254jDu5
Isn’t Johnson begging for a new outbreak of Covid-19 – right there among the drivers – by failing to provide basic facilities for cleanliness?
He is responsible for this; it was his decision that created the situation.
I wonder how he will talk his way out of it.
With a lie, I expect…
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Smug: Priti Patel seems to think she can say anything she likes about court cases and lawyers. Sadly, the failure of the authorities to punish her suggests that she is right. No wonder she often has that smug grin on her face.
An ill-advised tweet by Priti Patel – the UK’s Home Secretary, in charge of the country’s police service (but not, thankfully, justice) could have derailed a major criminal case, it has been revealed.
Four alleged people-smugglers have now been found guilty of manslaughter in the so-called Essex lorry deaths trial, after 39 people were found dead inside a lorry when it was inspected on its way into the UK from continental Europe.
On October 23, the anniversary of the tragedy, Priti Patel’s Twitter account posted: “One year ago today, 39 people lost their lives in horrific circumstances at the hands of ruthless criminals.
“My thoughts remain with everyone who was affected by that day, particularly the loved ones of the people who so tragically died.”
This public comment could have prejudiced the then-ongoing trial and for that reason was certainly in contempt of court.
Patel should have known this. In fact, This Writer finds it hard to believe that she didn’t.
Considering her other recent behaviour, it seems more likely that she thought she could get away with saying anything she liked – because she is a Conservative cabinet minister. Once again, it would be a case in which the Tories put themselves above the law.
According to The Mirror,
The post was retweeted and liked more than 300 times before it came to the attention of a defence lawyer and the trial was halted.
In the absence of the jury, Alisdair Williamson QC complained about the description of “ruthless criminals”, especially as she was a senior Government minister.
The judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, did not authorise action against Patel but pointed out to jurors that many messages were likely to appear on the social media – and all should be ignored.
“It’s a fundamental principle of our criminal justice system that those on trial are presumed to be innocent until proven to be guilty and it is you and you alone who are going to decide whether they are guilty or not guilty.”
Quite right.
Patel had no right to suggest that anybody was a “ruthless criminal” until the jury came to a decision supporting such a claim.
But then, considering her other ill-advised tweets about “activist lawyers”, which led to at least one attack on a firm of solicitors, it seems clear that she believes herself to be above the rules that affect the rest of us.
Sadly, Mr Justice Sweeney’s lack of action against her, along with the failure of the police to act over the other matter, tends to prove her right.
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Farage’s legacy: this land is set to become a parking zone for 17,000 lorries.
We all had a laugh at the name given to a planned lorry park in Kent to accommodate expected customs delays following full Brexit on January 1 next year – right?
(If you’re not aware of this, skip back to this article and enjoy the references to the ‘Farage Garage’ and ‘Jacob Rees Bogs’.)
And yesterday we had a laugh at the following:
FARAGE'S GARAGE, ASHFORD, KENT, now….
LOL, you did so well @MichaelGove, failure to plan, PLAN TO FAIL, UTTER MORON. It floods 4 times a year! and this is the Brexit Lorry Park for Kent. pic.twitter.com/qRoh5CfT0i
Has that information about flooding been confirmed, Mike? (The earlier photo on Twitter, included in your story, and which we RTed, is not from that area, as we found out due to eagle-eyed followers earlier).
Work on a huge post-Brexit lorry park is running behind schedule after heavy rain forced contractors to down tools.
The Department for Transport says it had to suspend construction of the 1,700-space facility in Ashford earlier this week “to manage surface water levels”.
Whether the site really does flood four times a year is not made clear, although it has clearly managed it once since construction started.
Thanks go to to Artemis (above) for the link to the Kent Online story.
And to the person who sent a snarky comment to This Site about “fake news” – perhaps you should do some research of your own before flinging wild accusations!
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FARAGE'S GARAGE, ASHFORD, KENT, now….
LOL, you did so well @MichaelGove, failure to plan, PLAN TO FAIL, UTTER MORON. It floods 4 times a year! and this is the Brexit Lorry Park for Kent. pic.twitter.com/qRoh5CfT0i
Farage’s legacy: it may not look like much now, but when it’s finished, this huge segment of the Garden of England will be a lorry park for 1,700 vehicles – the Farage Garage. The Jacob Rees-Bogs haven’t been installed yet.
This has been cracking me up since I first heard of it this morning (October 16) and I’m only sorry I had to wait until now to write an article about it.
It seems the practical upshot of Brexit is that Kent – also known as the Garden of England – is being bulldozed, in order to turn it into an enormous lorry park.
This is all being carried out by a political organisation that describes itself by the misnomer of “Conservatives”. What are they conserving, exactly?
British people, knowing that this is a result of the nation leaving the European Union, have dubbed the first such lorry park – set to hold 1,700 vehicles – the ‘Farage Garage‘.
Apparently the on-site toilets have been designated the ‘Jacob Rees-Bogs’.
Twitter has been gridlocked with it. See for yourself:
There’s a petition going round urging Kent to name the lorry park, currently under construction, after Nigel Farage. If they do please let it be called: ‘The Farage Garage.’
Up to 1,700 backed up lorries could soon be forced to wait in the lorry park in Ashford, Kent, which some are already calling the "Farage Garage". https://t.co/uaFJl1yWdh
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The UK’s new border: and the Tories can’t say it’s being imposed on us by anybody but them.
It’s all gone horribly wrong for Boris Johnson’s Brexit.
The government that decided to break international law – and threaten the peace in Northern Ireland – by overruling the Brexit plan to put an internal customs border – within the UK – in the Irish Sea…
… is self-imposing an internal border within the UK – where Kent meets Surrey.
So … Britain's border with the EU now looks like this.
That’s one example of Tory hypocrisy. Let’s see how many more we can find.
Here’s one: the new border means the party that said it would rid the UK of unwanted ‘red tape’ is burying itself under a new mountain of the stuff; Michael Gove is desperately trying to recruit a staggering 50,000 “customs agents” to help business prepare for it.
The measures are deemed necessary to prevent the creation of 7,000-long lorry queues and two-day waits to cross the Channel after the full force of Brexit hits us on January 1, 2021.
So:
Police will patrol the Kent border to turn away lorries without an “access permit”.
Officers will use automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras and “other means” to block drivers.
So it seems any trucker without these new travel passports will be arrested in what hauliers say is an attempt to shift blame for the looming disruption onto them (Tory hypocrisy number three).
The social media wits have really gone to town on this one (which is more than permit-less hauliers will be allowed to do) – using the new regulation to ridicule the attitudes of many jingoistic (Brexiteer) Brits:
Thanks to Brexit, we can finally keep those bastards from Kent out of Great Britain! Remember the people of Kent are economic migrants and only want to cross the border to steal our benefits and impose their way of life on us. It's time to take back control. #Kexit
— Boris Johnson #StayAlertControlTheVirus ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ (@GetBrexit_Done) September 23, 2020
I hate those people from east Kent. Coming over here and taking our jobs and our women. #Kexit
Kent's national currency is known as the Farage or colloquially as a Nigel. It's not recognized anywhere else because instead of ink the notes are stamped in bullshit. #Kexit
— John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) (@Harryslaststand) September 23, 2020
They point out that the policy move is an insult to Scotland:
Wonder how Nicola and the Scottish nationalists are going to feel about Kent getting to leave the Union before them 🤔 #Kexit
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