UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

[Anonymous X]

Petrol (gasoline) shortage crisis mounts (due to Brexit):

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1441336740401205249

Food and goods shortages building (due to logistics crisis caused by Brexit, and already very visible where I live):

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1441318302622502921

Surging prices of natural gas used for heating (due to leaving the single European energy market and the ongoing logistics crisis) raising prices for consumers, and causing energy suppliers to go bust:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1441017818552676354

 

[Ironbite4]

It's amazing what spite does to a nation.

 

[KidTDragon]

What were the benefits of Brexit supposed to be, again?

 

[Anonymous X]

We also have: a shortage of CO2 as used in food and drink production. As a knock-on effect of all the Brexit supply chain jive.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1440262198127837197

 

[Ironbite4]

.....oh dear if it isn't the consequences of a whole bunch of dumbass racist morons actions.

Ironbite-I am so so sorry bro.

 

[Kaon]

Wow... so Canada is the only good place?

 

[KidTDragon]

Not the way Wonko tells it.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Wow... so Canada is the only good place?

Canada is a better place. But do understand: the bar for "good" is pretty uniformly low.

 

[Rust]

Jesus.
I knew about the gas crisis, but it never registered how utterly barren store shelves are becoming over there.
Stay safe and stay well.

 

[Anonymous X]

Roads were clogged around my area yesterday as so many people were panic-buying petrol.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1441499951209476097

As this journo points out, the opposition political parties and most of the media (the BBC in particular) won’t even mention that Brexit is a negative thing causing these problem, as it’s not the ‘accepted’ national ideology:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1441419116787773441

 

[Anonymous X]

Every shop I passed this morning had similar signs outside (notice that they skirted around mentioning the B-word):

Translation:
“Some of our products are unavailable from our manufacturer” – we can’t get the products because we’re now outside the European Economic Area and customs union, and getting goods from the manufacturers is now an expensive, complicated ballache.

“we’ve a shortage of lorry drivers and team members” – the government have made 3 million working age people unwelcome here and removed their rights to live and work here. And even if the government hadn’t done so, our lorries (trucks) don’t have freedom of movement across the European Economic Area.

“We’re working hard to put this right” – we can’t actually solve this problem because politicians have screwed us over.

 

[Nevermore]

Time to start a war with those filthy mainlanders who are responsible!

 

[Pocket]

Every shop I passed this morning had similar signs outside (notice that they skirted around mentioning the B-word):
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Translation:
“Some of our products are unavailable from our manufacturer” – we can’t get the products because we’re now outside the European Economic Area and customs union, and getting goods from the manufacturers is now an expensive, complicated ballache.

“we’ve a shortage of lorry drivers and team members” – the government have made 3 million working age people unwelcome here and removed their rights to live and work here. And even if the government hadn’t done so, our lorries (trucks) don’t have freedom of movement across the European Economic Area.

“We’re working hard to put this right” – we can’t actually solve this problem because politicians have screwed us over.

I guess it could be worse. They could be like the signs in US stores, bluntly blaming someone other than the real source of their problems.

 

[Cradok]

Jesus.
I knew about the gas crisis, but it never registered how utterly barren store shelves are becoming over there.
Stay safe and stay well.

It's having a pretty bad effect in Ireland too, since so much of our goods are either bought directly from or was brought in through the UK.

 

[Anonymous X]

It's having a pretty bad effect in Ireland too, since so much of our goods are either bought directly from or was brought in through the UK.

Sorry about that. Really feel bad (even as a 100% Remain voter) about how the island of Ireland is being affected by all of this, while Ireland didn’t want or vote for it.

 

[Anonymous X]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1442486566786453505

 

[Nevermore]

My sympathy for all the anti-Brexit people in the UK who now have to suffer the consequences they saw coming.

 

[Anonymous X]

My sympathy for all the anti-Brexit people in the UK who now have to suffer the consequences they saw coming.

Unfortunately, there’s no-one with any power on our side. Labour is just as pro-Brexit as the Tories now, and basically have become nationalistic conservatives, they blamed the fuel crisis on having been in the EU (plus the unions that fund Labour don’t want freedom of movement and workers from EU countries living here).

 

[Nevermore]

Well, one thing's for sure - if you have a shortage of truck drivers, it might be a good idea to think about paying them better so more people might want to do the job...

 

[wonko the sane?]

Well, one thing's for sure - if you have a shortage of truck drivers, it might be a good idea to think about paying them better so more people might want to do the job...

Much like whats going on in republican controlled states in the US: despite the benefits of NOT forcing people to work for slave wages, they would still rather force people to work for slave wages.

Because you apparently can't have a government without psychopaths and sadists...