IN A FAR FLUNG FIELD IN KENT : The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to issue a formal COMPLAINT to Brussels later today over the betrayal of Brexitannia by EU truck drivers.
Once a stalwart of the U.K. haulage industry, the EU’s HGV drivers are increasingly stabbing the U.K. right in the front. The PM isn’t taking it.
“It’s a flagrant attempt to undermine the expressed will of the British public to allow Priti Patel to have at them and lock them up because she likes it,” a 10 Downing Street source told LCD Views. “The PM is going to take personal control of the situation and delegate it to Gove.”
The bafflement is strong on this one. There’s been little to indicate that post-Brexit staffing the UK’s haulage sector would be a problem.
“Okay many in the sector did warn repeatedly there was a storm brewing thanks to Brexit,” the source does concede, “but we had to fulfil the expressed swill of the people. It’s a price we’re willing for British consumers to pay.”
It is a situation that seems likely to deteriorate before any improvement and shoppers should probably start stockpiling like there’s a toilet paper shortage now.
”Just cast your mind back to when we allowed the pandemic to rip again before Christmas and roughly 10,000 EU drivers were stuck in a sodden field in Kent? Did the Home Office intervene to stop local charities and religious groups feeding them? No. So what’s the problem? We’re a very welcoming country. Just ask Priti Patel. Just ask Nigel Farage. We have basically turned our governance into a mirror of his soul. Why should that dissuade anyone from coming here to prove their right to work or be locked in immigration detention like an Italian au pair?”
It is expected Brussels will intervene in the UK’s favour, even though we’ve spent years telling them to F off. Because we’re British.
“It’s going to get awfully boring just driving around the Continent. Talk about tedium. Those drivers will soon be back. After all, they need us more than we need them. And once we’ve finally trained up enough U.K. drivers we can tell the EU staff to F off. Again.”