Fuel crisis in Britain: Doctors and teachers call for priority at petrol stations

To refuel are refueled first in gas stations of Of Britain, where queues have been forming for days as they are observed fuel shortages, ask for representatives of doctors, teachers and other frontline workers.

“We can’t wait two or three hours in queues when we have patients to see,” David Rigley, vice president of the British Medical Association, told SkyNews, urging authorities to take action today.

Organizations of doctors, nurses or even penitentiaries require front-line workers to have priority at gas stations, where in recent days the British, worried about the possibility of fuel shortages, are queuing.

“Let the front-line workers fill up first,” is the front page of the Mirror today, with The Sun criticizing the British government, denouncing “chaos and confusion.”

According to the Athens News Agency, the government must “regain its confidence” in the face of the fuel crisis and designate some gas stations that will serve exclusively front-line workers, called Unison, a large public sector trade union in Britain.

Drivers in the country rushed to get petrol after some companies announced that they were expected to close some of their petrol stations as they could not secure their refueling due to a lack of tanker drivers.

In the face of the crisis The British government asked the army last Monday night to be ready to intervene “If deemed necessary to stabilize fuel supply”.

London has already announced that it is temporarily relaxing the rules for issuing a work visa so that more drivers from Europe can work in the UK.

The lack of drivers, due to both the pandemic and the Brexithas been going on for months, with Labor accusing Boris Johnson of “sleeping at the wheel” and failing to intervene in time.

The problem has reached the shelves of supermarkets, which complain of delays in product deliveries, while stocks in others have been depleted.