WHAT a load of plonkers the Westminster government have turned out to be. The Road Haulage Association states emphatically that the UK is short of a hundred thousand HGV drivers who supply the import and export of goods throughout the UK.

Now, due to a sudden demand for a suddenly elusive supply of petrol, Westminster has been told the truck driver shortage includes petrol tanker drivers. Something Johnson obviously never thought about when discussing the pros and cons of his precious Brexit.

So, what does Johnson’s team of wacky ministers do but agree to reverse their much-heralded Brexit manifesto about immigration and allow 5000 truck drivers from anywhere else beyond the UK back for a period of three months only.

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Grant Shapps must be sucking on his cheeks about having to make contradicting statements and having to agree to the employment of the 5000 foreign truckers. But hey, he should consider himself lucky that this will probably never come to pass, given that his government’s Brexit scheme forced thousands upon thousands of foreign employees back to their home countries without so much as a thank you very much.

The same situation where supply truck drivers are concerned resulted in certain supermarket goods disappearing from the shelves, with the very real possibility of even more shelves becoming empty.

But still the Westminster government refuse to accept responsibility for the now very apparent results of Brexit.

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Thankfully for Johnson and co, the world has been, and is still, experiencing a killer of a coronavirus pandemic, which has now become – again according to Westminster – accountable for the lack of truck drivers. To say nothing of the latest blame accorded to the Road Haulage Association itself.

Johnson and his untrustworthy, lying and deceitful, don’t-blame-us government will never admit to their lack of judgement where governing the country is concerned. Unfortunately, there are still too many voters who still seem to contain a misguided trust in the Westminster ruling class of elected Tories.

Hopefully our own government will not take much longer in realising what its own voters understand, and why impatience is taking hold where our independence as a sovereign nation is concerned.

Alan Magnus-Bennett
Fife

SO Boris believes that thousands of qualified HGV drivers from the EU, many of whom the Home Office recently chased out, will be queueing up to come for three months to save our Christmas turkeys and fuel the journeys to see Granny.

Of course, I’m forgetting. With the whole world now lost in admiration and envy of the New Global Britain, they will be fighting each other for the privilege of being one of those allowed in, even if they know they will be deported again in three months.

Aye, right!

P Davidson
Falkirk

I AM no more a fan of B Johnson Esq than any other reader of The National but credit where it is due, he has finally come good on a major campaign promise. He undertook to end freedom of movement, and by the way his government has engineered this petrol and diesel drought, he has certainly curtailed my freedom of movement and that of everyone else in a really big way.

David Rowe
Beith