PANIC BUY!

[Asian Boss]

It was mainly about the buggers.

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[Rockburner]

This shows that the primary cause of the fuel shortage had nothing whatsoever to do with a shortage of lorry drivers.

Panic buying left petrol stations 85pc empty

A surge of panic buying pushed fuel sales to more than double their normal level and left petrol stations across the country 85pc empty, new figures have revealed.

Fuel sales soared to almost 36,000 litres per filling station on Sept 24, compared with a pre-Covid average of almost 18,000 litres, according to the Business Department.

Worries over a lack of lorry drivers sparked fears of shortages and led to long queues at forecourts as motorists desperately tried to fill up.

The panic buying drained stocks at petrol stations to as little as 15pc nationwide, the figures showed.

The Army has now been deployed to help with deliveries, but supply shortages have persisted – especially in London and the south east.

The data showed that while the situation has improved, inventories remained well below normal on Oct 3.

Seems that BP and the RHA have a lot to answer for in their roles in instigating the panic buying.

(just poking my nose where it's not wanted....)

And I suppose the media: who utterly conflated a very small story about a very minor, temporary delivery issue to an insignificant number of petrol stations; simply for the sake of over-the-top sensationalist and controversial headlines, which in turn contribute to selling advertising space / collecting user data; is completely blameless?

(don't worry about answering that, I'm not going to stick around. )

[Pirahna]

Things are escalating, we've gone from a shortage to a crisis in an afternoon.

Sky News: Supply crisis: Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items in last fortnight, ONS survey suggests.
https://news.sky.com/story/food-shortag ... s-12429058

[irie]

It's all gone fucking silly.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's all gone fucking silly.

But it's sold a lot of fuel

[Mr. Dazzle]

"Essential items" being the exact brand of cornflakes you want.

No one is gonna starve due to the level of supply issues I'm seeing.

[weeksy]

Well you've beaten me, I'm usually a glass half full sort of bloke, I usually spend a lot of time arguing that it's not really that bad and if you look on the positive side then things could work out, but I've decided to look at it differently and I'm going to take the negative media and the moaning on here at face value, without trying to see it in any kind of positive light.

The UK is in a right mess, any sensible person would sell up and cash out, if you stick around for that shite doing nothing but moaning then you've only really got yourselves to blame.

LOL you're a proper fruitcake at the moment fella. I don't see any of us selling their houses and posessions and moving out. For a start, where exactly would 'we' move to at the moment with the worldwide pandemic and how easy do you think that would be currently ?
We have jobs, families, lives... you can't just up sticks and bugger off.. Well, of course you can, but really you'd have had to have been thinking about it before hand anyway really.

You'll be amazed to know things are no better in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany in both terms of supply issues and more importantly Covid19 issues, which these countries are getting worse at the moment not better.

People in the UK seem to have moved on mostly from Covid, but in EU and i expect worldwide it's still a massive issue.

[weeksy]

LOL you're a proper fruitcake at the moment fella. I don't see any of us selling their houses and posessions and moving out. For a start, where exactly would 'we' move to at the moment with the worldwide pandemic and how easy do you think that would be currently ?
We have jobs, families, lives... you can't just up sticks and bugger off.. Well, of course you can, but really you'd have had to have been thinking about it before hand anyway really.

You'll be amazed to know things are no better in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany in both terms of supply issues and more importantly Covid19 issues, which these countries are getting worse at the moment not better.

People in the UK seem to have moved on mostly from Covid, but in EU and i expect worldwide it's still a massive issue.

Pisser...24 pages of moaning in the "ain't it awful" club and eventually I'm tired of playing devils advocate trying to be positive and I agree it's a shit show, and then I'm the fruitcake.

If you're saying the UK is doing ok and things are no better in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany then that'll do for me, but perhaps you could have saved the day twenty odd pages ago and said so, because there are an awful lot of moaning cunts in this thread painting a very black picture.

Well it is quite bleak in a few ways here, fuel issues, i guess some food issues, Brexit, all other things... however, as i say, speaking on a call yesterday with a load of EU guys, they've got plenty of issues of their own to deal with too, they've got Government issues too, as well as increasing CV19 cases as i say..

Then look at the alternatives, lets throw the US in there... errrrm no... Or shall we throw Oz in there... Not really great either...

Whilst you're little paradise may be idyllic for you, i don't think it's for many of us and i think i'd last 48 hours top in the sandpit before i went completely insane and wanted to throw myself off a cliff... well, if i could find one. The UK ain't perfect, i'm not saying that at all. However that all depends on how much you let things affect you and how much the little things bother you. Me personally, i'm not in the slightest bothered by any of this thread, it doesn't even exist in my head apart from the fact it lives in a thread on the forum. Sure, in the next week/10 days i'll need to get diesel, i may not be able to... If i can't, i can certainly get petrol and i'll then use the wifes car... Sure, it's a minor inconvenience, but heck, in the grand scheme of things, the lack of Tesco Rhubarb flavoured water bothers me more !

[Noggin]

Pisser...24 pages of moaning in the "ain't it awful" club and eventually I'm tired of playing devils advocate trying to be positive and I agree it's a shit show, and then I'm the fruitcake.

If you're saying the UK is doing ok and things are no better in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany then that'll do for me, but perhaps you could have saved the day twenty odd pages ago and said so, because there are an awful lot of moaning cunts in this thread painting a very black picture.

TBF, it's one of the reasons I don't post much on these type of threads. I don't read them that often either - a dose of a few pages in one hit every few days is better than 'drip-reading' it every day!!

LOL you're a proper fruitcake at the moment fella. I don't see any of us selling their houses and posessions and moving out. For a start, where exactly would 'we' move to at the moment with the worldwide pandemic and how easy do you think that would be currently ?
We have jobs, families, lives... you can't just up sticks and bugger off.. Well, of course you can, but really you'd have had to have been thinking about it before hand anyway really.

You'll be amazed to know things are no better in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany in both terms of supply issues and more importantly Covid19 issues, which these countries are getting worse at the moment not better.

People in the UK seem to have moved on mostly from Covid, but in EU and i expect worldwide it's still a massive issue.

I think France is doing pretty well on the Covid stuff and I'm not aware of any supply issues. But who wants to hear the positive stuff!!

As for the moving abroad now - TBF, before the end of 2020, anyone could have just upped sticks and moved to somewhere relatively close (the EU!), basically the same as moving within the UK. But now of course that is way more complicated for moving people, stuff and jobs However, plenty of people are still doing it. Some had planned pre covid, some just wanted to but hadn't started planning, but it's still happening, pandemic or not



I'm similar to @Potter in that I wouldn't ever move back to the UK. But part of that is based on where I lived at the time of the original Brexit vote as well as the last couple of years of watching from afar!!

[Count Steer]

Local station still got no fuel.

Think I'll move to France. Oh.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's whingeing Brits, some vociferous British people moan about everything, my life is pretty good, I've really got fuck all to moan about, my biggest problem is finding time to do all the things I want to do.

[Mussels]

"Essential items" being the exact brand of cornflakes you want.

No one is gonna starve due to the level of supply issues I'm seeing.

You'll probably see shortages now the press have made up sensational headlines from some uninteresting stats.
I think we'll see problems with any industry that relies on casual labour, the new tax laws are so vague and troublesome that for many it's not worth the hassle so they don't bother. Referees are currently bouncing round the courts trying to work out if one ref owes an extra £600k tax because of his occasional weekend work.

[DefTrap]

Lolz at the "it's no better in the EU"
It's actually fine, there's no shortages and there's no hysterical moaning, queueing and fighting over a litre of 2*.

I'm currently on my holidays in la Rochelle. Last night the streets were crowded, I had a pleasant dinner in a restaurant, everyone was enjoying themselves. Yeah you have to wear masks every now and again but if this is the apocalypse, I'm staying.

You lot can't come though, we're full.

[slowsider]

It's whingeing Brits, some vociferous British people moan about everything, my life is pretty good, I've really got fuck all to moan about, my biggest problem is finding time to do all the things I want to do.

There's a shortage of time ?? Quick, panic buy... er. .. watches?

[weeksy]

Whilst you're little paradise may be idyllic for you, i don't think it's for many of us and i think i'd last 48 hours top in the sandpit before i went completely insane and wanted to throw myself off a cliff... well, if i could find one.

Did I say it would be?

I simply agreed with all the folk saying the UK was shit - which clearly stimulated you to say actually it's not that bad, but it's a shame it took me to get you to do that, you could have pointed it out twenty pages ago.

I very rarely open this sort of thread. Now I know why. But in my defence it was 7am and everyone was sleeping so I couldn't do things I wanted

[Horse]

I'm similar to @Potter in that I wouldn't ever move back to the UK.

I'm fairly sure that, within the last few weeks, he's talked about retirement here.


But the real reason you wouldn't come back is that the French banks would never release your money

[Noggin]

I'm similar to @Potter in that I wouldn't ever move back to the UK.

I'm fairly sure that, within the last few weeks, he's talked about retirement here.


But the real reason you wouldn't come back is that the French banks would never release your money

LOL TBF, currently there's not exactly much to release!!

I won't go back because I don't feel like it's home anymore.

And, yes, he might talk about retiring there but I suspect that's because that was always the plan - be interesting to see if he actually does and how long he stays!! LOL

[cheb]

That's probably because you been away. I've no desire to move back to the big island either.

Nowhere's perfect, but this place suits me enough that I CBA looking elsewhere for happiness* nor validation. So far no shortages here, aside form the usual caused by cancelled ferries or a mismatch of supplies and tourists. But then I'm enough of a lunatic deranged prepper as to have spares or excess of important things. The weather's grim though, stats suggest that from late September to early November it rains every day, not all day but at least once a day.


*Happy? Ah yes, I remember that.

[irie]

... in the grand scheme of things, the lack of Tesco Rhubarb flavoured water bothers me more !

And I can no longer get my favourite Tesco Finest Belgian Dark Chocolate covered cookies!

[Yorick]

You'll be amazed to know things are no better in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany in both terms of supply issues and more importantly Covid19 issues, which these countries are getting worse at the moment not better.

People in the UK seem to have moved on mostly from Covid, but in EU and i expect worldwide it's still a massive issue.

The UK is the worst in Europe.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58849024