United Kingdom still in crisis due to the lack of petrol but the Johnson government for the moment does not intend to resort to the army.
This was stated by a spokesman for Downing Street, denying, on the sidelines of an ad hoc meeting of the council of ministers, what was stated by the British media: "Currently it is not necessary, but like any responsible government we are preparing any further measures that may be needed", he said. the spokesman specified.
In post-Brexit Britain, there is a shortage of "100,000 truck drivers," the unions argue, and therefore slow down fuel supplies to the service station network. For now, the government is putting in facilitated visa fields for 5 thousand foreign drivers and for 5,500 workers in the poultry sector, another sector in difficulty on the front of the distribution chain.
The Minister of Environment and Agriculture, George Eustice, minimizes the problem: deposits and refineries, he said, "are full". There is a distribution problem, he admits, but it is only temporary, "in the process of being solved". What caused the long queues that blocked even very important junctions, is his version, were the statements of the media: they are the ones who have fueled the "alarm" by inducing the "most anxious" consumers to run to gas stations trying to grab fuel.
(Unioneonline / D)
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