For the British Tory government it is a passing phenomenon, also fueled by alarmism.
But the crisis that has hit the gasoline distribution chain
- and of a certain number of food products - still seems to be overcome in the United Kingdom.
This is confirmed by the queues and 'sold out' signs that continue to appear up and down the island: among the shelves of many semi-empty supermarkets in the 'fresh' departments and the many dry or induced fuel pumps (in the case of of the Asda chain) to ration the supply to no more than 30 pounds.
The council of ministers, meeting for an ad hoc session convened by Boris Johnson, ruled out at the moment the need to have recourse - with a symbolically last resort move - to the army reservists to bring the fuels from the depots to the service stations and coping with the lack of coverage of places left uncovered in the Kingdom by about 100,000 drivers after the post-pandemic recovery: a backlash that also occurred in various EU countries, but which overseas was aggravated by the parallel consequences and obstacles of post Brexit on a part of force foreign work from the continent in the past.
"Currently the military is not needed, even if like any responsible government we are preparing any measures that may be imposed by further future needs", a spokesman for Downing Street cut short on the sidelines of the meeting.
In addition to these buffer initiatives, an agreement was reached between the executive and the giants BP, Shell, Esso and others to streamline the passage of fuel to service stations. According to the refrain repeated by the Ministers of Productive Activities and Agriculture, Kwasi Kwarteng and George Eustice, after all, there is no real shortage of hydrocarbons in the Kingdom. Because the British deposits and refineries are in fact still "full". While the hitches on distribution, "in the process of being solved" in Eustice's words, would have been "entirely controllable" from the start if the trade organizations (seeking government aid) and the media had not fueled the "alarm" inducing "more anxious" consumersto an extraordinary hoarding of supplies.