The blame for this sits squarely with 24hr news and their sensationalism of any news they can and saying just buy fuel as normal. As soon as they do that............. you you know what going to happen Ultimately it sits with the twats in government, who like most stuff of late just can't or don't want to see things coming, utterly reactive instead of being proactive. Oh and I'm not going to mention the B word
Ultimately it sits with the twats in government, who like most stuff of late just can't or don't want to see things coming, utterly reactive instead of being proactive.
I think it goes deeper than that Gnasher. Two or event three decades of encouraging young people to universities for worthless degrees, insufficient training programmes and encouragement into worthwhile productive employments, ,media focus on an alternative reality in which everything is always someone elses fault and that the state will provide, privatisation of essential national services which has led to lack of investment and profiteering, and led to significant quantity of our energy supplies now being provided by foreign powers, who may or may not decide at some point to curtail supply
I was born post war in 1948 and we all had ration cards into the early 1950s. I do remember my dad struggling to get enough petrol coupons at the time of the Suez shenanigans in 1956-he would purchase unwanted coupons from a couple of neighbours as he needed to travel around Kent, Sussex and part of Greater London for his work.I know you can't compare the situation then with possibly 6 million private vehicles on our roads with the current estimated 36 million private cars etc.The situation we find ourselves in is the result of decades of asset stripping, sell offs and the cultivation of selfish self seeking attitudes from the top down.The peak of the British Empire was around the time Victoria died and we have since paid the price of financing 2 catastrophic World wars.Unfortunately elitism and the old boy network are still very much alive and well in "great?" Britain today and all we are witnessing when we see panic buying and selfish greed is a reflection of the behaviour and attitudes of an inept and fundamentally incapable government -all these selfish hoarders simply copying our leaders behaviour.Why do we still runour country as we did 100 years ago? We need professionally qualified leaders who understand the importance of security of energy supplies, proper border controls and a benefit/welfare system that requires people to get out of bed when there are jobs to be done.I am ashamed to be British the way I see things going. I worry for my children and grandchildrens future.
It has also been suggested that the reversing parts of the have test could be dispensed with in an attempt to speed up process of getting new drivers "qualified" to drive these leviathans.
I went out at 6am this morning on the hunt for fuel, and it was already gridlocked everywhere.Around 6.45am on the way into work I saw about 80 cars in a queue for one garage, which only had one pump in service when I went past. The thing is, they were all queuing in a bus lane, inside a hard white line, and at 7am they will be liable for a ticket if the camera gets their number plate.