United Kingdom October 2021: Truck crisis. Empty gas stations. Empty shelves in the grocery stores and 120,000 pigs that may have to be burned. These are some of the consequences of the Brexit chaos that now prevails on the other side of the North Sea.
The problems with the British are about to rise.
Still, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister declared that the British Renaissance had begun.
Brexit Minister David Frost uses big words about the period they are in. He says that «The painful long dream of EU membership is over» and the British can now look forward to brighter times.
By the way, did we mention that the British are facing a power crisis towards the winter? High coal and gas power prices have forced British households to prepare for very high bills in the future.
And what about the 120,000 pigs?
Let’s take one thing at a time.
Missing drivers
Even before the corona crisis, the British had too few truck drivers. It is now estimated from a trade union for professional drivers that they lack around 100,000 drivers. Thousands of these would be taken from other EU countries before Brexit.
But where the British used to be able to lean on the EU’s basic principle of free movement of goods, services, capital and people, it is no longer as simple.
–After the British left the union, it has become more complicated for drivers to work on the other side of the canal. The pound has also weakened steadily against the euro. This means that drivers from the continent who drive in the UK get paid less.
In recent days, the British have been particularly short of fuel.
A necessary evil and a transition process, we must believe Johnson himself. The Prime Minister told the BBC that they would not increase labor immigration to deal with the problems on the islands.
– We can not go back to the tired, failed and broken model of uncontrolled immigration, says Johnson, who believes it will lead to low wages.
Johnson elaborates on the statement to The Guardian and says that Brexit was about a desire for a change from the people.
– During Brexit, people voted to end with a model for the British economy that was about low wages, low education and low productivity. We are moving away from that now, Johnson says to the newspaper.
However, he has temporarily relaxed the rules and issued 5,000 temporary work permits for truck drivers. They are also considering training soldiers to drive trucks for a period of time.
CNN reports that there may be a shortage of food due to logistical problems and a shortage of workers as Christmas approaches.
Are the pigs burned?
So what about the pigs?
–British farmers report that they are in danger of having to emergency slaughter 120,000 pigs and burn them.
There are simply not enough butchers to handle the amount of meat produced.
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