Hemel Hempstead, England: British military personnel in combat fibers arrived on Monday at the BP storage depot after the government ordered the army to help provide fuel to overcome the lack of acute trucks, a Reuters reporter said.
British supply chains for everything from pigs, gasoline and poultry for medicines and milk has been tense to violate the point by lack of labor after the Crisis of Brexit and Covid.
Panic purchase of fuel amid a shortage of truck drivers triggered chaotic scenes in big cities last week with the drivers queue stacked.
Some have a fight against pumps while others hoard fuel in old water bottles.
“As an extra precaution, we have activated extra drivers,” Minister of Finance Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, told LBC Radio.
“The situation has increased now because I think more than a week every day …
the better and because demand settles back to a more normal level, strong expectations will complete themselves.” Reporter Reuters said they saw at least two dozen gas stations still closed throughout London and South England.
Drivers are still queuing outside the open stations.
The gasoline retail association said that around 22% of fuel stations in London and Southeast are still without fuel, and the association’s executive director, Gordon Balmer, said it might take a week to 10 days to get stock to normal.
The British ministers have repeatedly denied that the fuel crisis has to do with Brexit and have thrown a shortage of truck drivers as a global problem, even though other European neighbors have not experienced a queue at the gas station.
“HGV drivers are not English problems, this is a European problem and so on,” Sunak said.
“I want people to know that we do everything we can to reduce some of the challenges, where we can make a difference.” Johnson said on Sunday he would not return to “uncontrolled immigration” to solve the fuel crisis of fuel, gas and Christmas, showing such a strain was part of the post-brexit adjustment period.
In the midst of the fuel station crisis, farmers have repeatedly warned that the lack of butchers and cutting workers can force more than 100,000 pigs supported on agriculture.
Adding a sense of chaos on Monday, the British capital was brought to traffic jams by climate change activists who blocked the big route to London.
About 50 campaigners from Insulates Britain, who want the government to commit to providing isolation for 29 million homes, blocking busy routes to the city including blackwall tunnels in East London and bridges on the Thames in the southwest.
The police said they made 38 arrests.