Covid?

Brexit?

Both?

I notice it’s taken McDonald’s to run out of milkshakes for it to actually cause people to lose their shit.

I read that 14,000 EU lorry drivers left jobs in the UK since brexit, and only 600 have returned.

Covid caused loss of tests to be cancelled.

 

12 minutes ago, MickyD said:

The Government are to take their 80 reserve fuel tankers and tractor-units out of their mothballed state and loan them to the petrol companies.

80 tankers and 80 driver cabs. Fucking hell, that’s an expensive fleet doing fuck all!

Your average forecourt takes around 4 fuel tankers to fill their tanks. Every little helps.

6 minutes ago, Gonk said:

Your average forecourt takes around 4 fuel tankers to fill their tanks. Every little helps.

I don’t doubt it. My point being the capital expenditure required to mothball 80 tanker sets.

💣

It's almost like we've always had enough drivers who are hgv and qualified to transport petrol about but the last week, despite deliveries of fuel being OK, the media decide brexit is to blame.. 

Someone saying don't panic buy petrol caused this. 

If you bought fuel this week without being on your light you are a toilet roll hoarding cunt. 

24 minutes ago, MickyD said:

I don’t doubt it. My point being the capital expenditure required to mothball 80 tanker sets.

Obviously correct , but I wonder if they are mothballed or in use on a rota  so there’s 80 spare ones at any given time for this type of contingency and even for breakdowns / service intervals etc and now they’re just putting them all out at once ? 
 
can’t see 80 units just stood indefinitely 
 

1 hour ago, stevieb said:

💣

It's almost like we've always had enough drivers who are hgv and qualified to transport petrol about but the last week, despite deliveries of fuel being OK, the media decide brexit is to blame.. 

Someone saying don't panic buy petrol caused this. 

If you bought fuel this week without being on your light you are a toilet roll hoarding cunt. 

It's almost like Brexiters will come up with any excuse whatsoever to deny there are any negative consequences of leaving the EU.

Been in a queue for petrol for over an hour, not sure if they have any yet, got hardly anything in the tank so if they don't...fuck knows.

 

 

8 hours ago, stevieb said:

💣

It's almost like we've always had enough drivers who are hgv and qualified to transport petrol about but the last week, despite deliveries of fuel being OK, the media decide brexit is to blame.. 

Someone saying don't panic buy petrol caused this. 

If you bought fuel this week without being on your light you are a toilet roll hoarding cunt. 

So why don’t the media create a shitshow like this every week? It’s good for viewing figures.

Cant think why they’d pick a driver shortage at random and be so successful.

Unless - and bear with me here - there’s a genuine driver shortage that existed anyway, and has possibly (who knows?) been made worse by the UK telling all our European drivers to fuck off back to Latvia?

Its a conundrum.

2 minutes ago, Spider said:

So why don’t the media create a shitshow like this every week? It’s good for viewing figures.

 

They do don’t they?

6 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

They do don’t they?

😁

Well that’s true.

Everythings a fucking “Crisis” to Kay Deatheater Burley.

I am victorious!!! 

What a fucking shit show.

Just now, Not in Crawley said:

I am victorious!!! 

What a fucking shit show.

Moan moan moan

Youve got fuel and food in your belly.

5 minutes ago, Spider said:

Moan moan moan

Youve got fuel and food in your belly.

The lads at Esso looked chuffed with the extra shifts as well, In fact it's job creation.

Added to the fact the blitz spirit was in full effect, lots of 'morning!' People talking to each other, great community liaison scheme really.

More people using bikes and walking, less pointless trips in the car, capping how much petrol is being used all in time for the green summit in Glasgow.

I've been very short sighted, what a great programme. True foresight and vision. Viva la Johnson!

Good advert for electric cars as well. 

4 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

The lads at Esso looked chuffed with the extra shifts as well, In fact it's job creation.

Added to the fact the blitz spirit was in full effect, lots of 'morning!' People talking to each other, great community liaison scheme really.

More people using bikes and walking, less pointless trips in the car, capping how much petrol is being used all in time for the green summit in Glasgow.

I've been very short sighted, what a great programme. True foresight and vision. Viva la Johnson!

All part of the grand plan.

He plays his cards close to his chest, obviously.

He knew there was a driver shortage all along, and he will have known the problems Brexit would add in that respect (after all, the bloke was privately educated and sounds WELL posh innit?)

So maybe cut him some slack.

Best PM since Churchill etc..

10 hours ago, Escobarp said:

She can fucking die in a climate change induced forest fire for all I care the sour faced preaching little cunt. 

How does she travel internationally? Wind powered plane?

To be fair she does travel by boat, low cardon emission slow travel - or rather she does for the international conferences I believe.

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

How does she travel internationally? Wind powered plane?

She’s got her own private jet paid for by Bono.

16 minutes ago, freds dad said:

She’s got her own private jet paid for by Bono.

George Soros. 

Get it right. 

2 hours ago, Spider said:

...Its a conundrum.

No, this is a Conundrum...

This should help. And this time it’s entirely Brexit related I’m afraid:

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/imminent-uk-border-changes-could-add-trucker-problems-industry-group-says-2021-09-30/?taid=6155d5a876ce460001394e0e&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

18 hours ago, fatolive said:

Obviously correct , but I wonder if they are mothballed or in use on a rota  so there’s 80 spare ones at any given time for this type of contingency and even for breakdowns / service intervals etc and now they’re just putting them all out at once ? 
 
can’t see 80 units just stood indefinitely 
 

Here’s a tale about a complete fuck up by Blair’s government under the jurisdiction of the Deputy PM, John Prescott when his department, ODPM, took over the running of the fire service from the Home Office.

In an effort to be more ready for many incident types, it was decided to create a new type of fire appliance using demountable pod systems. These pods could be High Volume Pumps, Public Decontamination Units, Firefighter Decontamination Units, Foam Unit, you get the idea; there are probably another four or five pod types.

These pods were all based on the same skid (like a skip) which goes on the back of a hook-lift chassis (again, like a skip wagon)

So, some fucker in ODPM worked out where in the country all these pods would be located. They were to be National assets rather than regional so a major flooding in Humberside may  get High Volume Pump Pods from all over the country rather than the nearest ones. This ensures availability for further incidents.

Anyway, it was decided at a high governmental level how many of each of the different pods were required. Let’s say 150 pods so call it 15 of each type shared out around the country.

150 pods on order but they’d need the wagons to move them. Someone decided 150 pods needed 150 wagons, despite the fact that each pod would fit on each wagon. As soon as they realised the mistake, they got in touch with the supplier and asked them to cancel two-thirds of the order. 

The government got told to fuck off.

So Bolton got two pods and two chassis despite there never being a time where both pods would be used at the same time so two pods and one chassis would have been adequate.

What do you do with one hundred spare wagons? 

The answer was hide them underneath the pods. 

Nobody ever got taken to task about this so maybe 80 spare petrol tankers is possible but I reckon if you dig deep enough, it would be a Labour Party decision, not a Tory one.

 

Some responses to this should be interesting🙂

My mind wandered halfway through reading it...

Next time sound an airhorn in the middle of the post, to shake the reader out of their reveries...

Edited September 30, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

Happen Two Jags sourced them through the landlord of his local pub?