Minister makes crazy proposal – criminals should drive trucks for Brexit Brits – politics abroad

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With criminals against fuel shortages.

In the fight against an acute shortage of truck drivers and fuel in Great Britain, Vice Prime Minister Dominic Raab (47) made an unusual proposal: he wants to use criminals as petrol drivers.

“We have let prisoners and criminals work on a voluntary basis and unpaid,” said Raab to the “Spectator”. “Why not let them do paid work when there are bottlenecks, if it is of benefit to the economy and society?”

Background: It is estimated that the UK is currently lacking more than 100,000 truck drivers. This creates major problems, especially at UK gas stations. Because no longer enough tank trucks were able to bring the fuel to the spot, countless filling stations have been left on the dry land in the past few days. Even supermarkets have already had shortages of some products.

Government appealed to aggravate the situation

Spicy: After the British government had called on the population not to panic buying, the situation got even worse: there were long queues in front of those petrol stations that still had petrol and diesel in stock.

Now the cabinet seems to have learned from its mistakes. The BBC reported Thursday, citing internal documents, that the government had instructed local authorities not to use the words “panic” or “panic buying” in their public communications regarding fuel.

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