Damascus-SANA
Only four percent of Britons believe, according to a new opinion poll, that the process of secession between Britain and the European Union, or the so-called Brexit, went well, while the remaining 96 percent believe the opposite, and the fuel crisis that their country has been witnessing for nearly two weeks is the biggest proof of this, as the Independent newspaper saw. One of the obvious repercussions of the divorce between London and Brussels.
The British government is trying, according to The Independent, to pretend that Britain's current problems are not related to Brexit, and insists on denying this relationship despite its clarity, claiming that the lack of fuel and other materials is a symptom of the process of transition to a different economy.
The newspaper pointed out that the ruling Conservative Party is holding its conference again as a direct result of Brexit, which ended and Britain is in the midst of a fuel crisis that shows no signs of improvement.
The British government’s response to the pressures resulting from the fuel crisis and its main causes of lack of drivers seems very slow, and it was not until after great trouble and many demands that London decided to grant temporary visas to about five thousand foreigners to work as truck drivers, despite the country’s need for one hundred thousand drivers, and it also called on the army to help in Transporting fuel to stations is an indirect acknowledgment of the problem arising from Brexit.
The Independent said that when the British voted in favor of Brexit, they did not vote so that they could not buy gasoline, but rather they intended change and an end to the shattered economic model that relied on cheap labour, skills and low productivity, but their goal has become far, noting that the fuel crisis is a direct product of the deal that the Prime Minister made British Boris Johnson with the European Union, which has nothing to do with the promises made in 2016, which witnessed the popular referendum to withdraw from the European Union.
The newspaper explained that after Brexit, transport companies have become unwilling to include Britain in their lines because they want to avoid the required official papers, and of course the Corona pandemic had a major role, considering that this problem cannot be solved because it is linked to Brexit and that the repercussions resulting from it are clearly visible and stripped like long queues in front of gas stations, nor The bragging rights of the British government could make them disappear.
The fuel crisis shed light on the repercussions of the European labor shortage in Britain and the resulting closure of gas stations and the cessation of retail stores and many outlets from work, as well as the extent of London's dependence on Brussels.
While Johnson is trying to contain the repercussions of this crisis on his political life amid the voices of criticism, the queues of cars in front of gas stations will not disappear easily, and their image will not disappear from our minds, and they are not the first queues, as the queues of trucks between Britain and the European Union preceded them, days before the completion of the Brexit deal, and queues of migrants across the water border with France.
Basma Kanon
