02-10-2021, 07:59 AM
01 Oct 2021 02:26AM
(Updated: 01 Oct 2021 07:09AM)
LONDON: More than two thousand British gas stations were still dry on Thursday (Sep 30) due to a shortage of truck drivers which was starting to disrupt deliveries to pharmacies, while farmers warned a lack of butchers could lead to a massive cull of pigs.
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Besides fuel and medicine, the farming industry warned that hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be culled within weeks unless the government issues visas to allow more butchers into the country.
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The gas station crisis has provoked scorn in some European capitals, with senior politicians suggesting Britain's trucker shortage was a clear consequence of its 2016 referendum decision to leave the EU.
British ministers have denied this, though tens of thousands of EU truckers left during the Brexit maelstrom.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/ch...rs-2212736
(Updated: 01 Oct 2021 07:09AM)
LONDON: More than two thousand British gas stations were still dry on Thursday (Sep 30) due to a shortage of truck drivers which was starting to disrupt deliveries to pharmacies, while farmers warned a lack of butchers could lead to a massive cull of pigs.
......
Besides fuel and medicine, the farming industry warned that hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be culled within weeks unless the government issues visas to allow more butchers into the country.
......
The gas station crisis has provoked scorn in some European capitals, with senior politicians suggesting Britain's trucker shortage was a clear consequence of its 2016 referendum decision to leave the EU.
British ministers have denied this, though tens of thousands of EU truckers left during the Brexit maelstrom.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/ch...rs-2212736