They have no intention of ever agreeing and never have done. They only agreed the trade deal on Xmas Eve last year in a panic.
All the time in South East London. To the point I have to go to a few supermarkets to get all of what I need.
Last few years we’ve ordered our favorite takeaway, so Christmas dinner has been Indian. Saves us cooking for hours. We’ve felt like a weight lifted off us
From what I've read, the EU are preparing for one. It was an article from a few weeks ago, but it said that the EU have not really brought up consequences against UK actions, and they're done with being the softies and the UK playing with that. So they're building internal consensus on a large package of trade measures to be deployed if the UK would really do the things they're talking about - which would indeed be a trade war. If that really happens as the article discussed, the UK would be in trouble. (Sorry for being vague on details, it's been a few weeks since I read that.)
You get the odd missing item on Ocado, but you always did anyway. I just saw this report about panic buying, but had the misfortune of going to Waitrose and Tesco near me and neither were busy and both had full shelves, barring pistachio Little Moons.
They are using the unionist parties in NI and the whole protocol situation as a token stick to beat the EU with to divert from how horrible Brexit has been. As per usual the unionists in NI are falling for their shit.
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Ridiculous but hardly surprising. I’m willing to bet that a lot of those people wanted to get the foreigners out, regardless of the consequences.
fecking morons. Utter fecking cretins.
That's not something reactionaries do. In fact, they'd rather die than admitting a mistake. Your government of course knows that, and with the help of Murdoch Media and the Tory mouthpieces from the BBC they can pull the wool over the eyes of these fools with ease. Add in a so-called opposition leader who doesn't seem all that interested in getting his party into power, and you end up with a nigh perfect dystopia called the "UK". Crazy to think it happened in Orwell's homeland of all countries.
So much material for psychology research here. "We are a laughing stock... but I voted for it, and wouldn't change my vote."
I completely agree, sadly.
Do you really believe it’s a purely media problem? The shortage started around the 26th of September, over two weeks ago and is still ongoing in some areas. If people panic bought initially then many of those people will still be sitting on full tanks and Jerry cans and yet some stations are still waiting on supply to meet demand.
Yes. We had bigger drops in supply earlier in the year in comparison to what we saw over the last few weeks.
Yes the media sure was dumb sending all those European HGV drivers packing and not planning properly to replace them. The media also dropped the ball making our bodies really difficult to navigate for trade and goods from the EU, leading some hauliers to ditch trips to the UK.
I said “purely”. I know demand increased, my point is that how has that demand sustained for over three weeks? That would require people to actually be using all the fuel they have hoarded and then go back for more, no?Yes. We had bigger drops in supply earlier in the year in comparison to what we saw over the last few weeks.
As more people became aware of the 'shortage', panic-buying of fuel increased rapidly. All down to the media on this one.
Well not everyone is using jerry cans every time they fill up, but I can go through a tank in a week. Usage is still happening, therefore it needs an oversupply to catch up with the initial spike in demand from the start of the three weeks. That can take quite a while until you're back at an even level of supply and demand.
Was there really any other motivations besides racism & xenophobia? Sure doesn't seem so to this Yank.
It didn't just happen on the 25th/26th, the levels in filling stations were already lower than they should be before that and the panic tipped it over the edge. The same reason EU countries have vast reserves of gas whereas the UK don't so any minor crisis tips the balance whereas in the EU are prepared an can rely on their neighbours if there are shortages.
Which data are you pulling that view from? Before the impact of panic buying, it looks relatively average in terms of stock levels. Petrol stations are only ever at 40-50% capacity in the UK.
I saw a chart a couple of weeks ago showing the regions of the UK, and the ones having the lowest stocks were in the south of England. Wish I had kept it now.Which data are you pulling that view from? Before the impact of panic buying, it looks relatively average in terms of stock levels. Petrol stations are only ever at 40-50% capacity in the UK.
Are they not supposed to report the news?
You're heading off down a different path here, but panic buying has happened before on fuel in the UK, it's not a new phenomenon. It'll happen again for sure. Panic buying in this case happened due to the media coverage, nothing else. The gap between supply & demand in both January 2021 and late April/May 2021 were far bigger than what we saw in September until the media coverage kicked in, which drove the significant demand. Based on the data that's there, there's little else that would suggest it's down to anything other than something skewing/driving the average demand, ie. the media.
That wasn't news though, there was bigger supply 'shortages' at two other points during 2021 that would warrant coverage. Neither were reported, and panic buying didn't happen. Go figure.
So as the number of HGV and tankers drivers continue to diminish whether or not HGV tests are back to normal or not and gets worse next year because of Brexit these shortages will become more and more regular, with or without the media.
Surely that would depend on what other news was on and how much news space there was?
They're all so easy to manipulate. "It's the media!!".
Meghan Markle perhaps?
I'm looking forward to the day when it's Johnson and Farage, the day will come eventually.
Or the EU!
Brexiteers were hot on moaning about unelected bureaucrats in the EU however they seem awfully quiet when this unelected idiot signs a deal then goes back on it months later. I mean shambles doesn't do it justice. This is an absolute shitshow across the board by this Government and morons in this country are letting them get away with it. I've never felt angrier at the state of politics in this country.
Yes, just like they actually used all the bog-rolls which disappeared off supermarket shelves when rumours of a lockdown started.
