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Nigel Farage complained he couldn’t get petrol and sympathy was in even shorter supply

"Was this not the Brexit you voted for? Oddly, it was the one I voted against. Still, you won, get over it."

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-09-30 10:42
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Have you struggled to get petrol and voted to leave the EU, did you feel any pang of guilt that the two could be related?

Well the chief Brexiteer himself, Nigel Farage, couldn’t get any petrol this morning and took to Twitter to have a moan, he also appears to have been crashed into by a van.

He wrote: “The government tell us that the fuel crisis is easing… I went to 7 petrol stations this morning and there was no fuel at any of them. Was then hit by a van whilst stationary at a roundabout. Great start to the day!”

The government tell us that the fuel crisis is easing…

I went to 7 petrol stations this morning and there was no fuel at any of them.

Was then hit by a van whilst stationary at a roundabout. Great start to the day!

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) September 30, 2021

It comes as Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has suggested offenders who have been given community sentences could be used to address the country’s lack of HGV drivers amid continuing concerns about fuel shortages.

Panic buying sparked by concerns a lack of lorry drivers would prevent supplies reaching fuel pumps has brought long queues and pockets of aggression at petrol station forecourts over the last few days.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has announced soldiers could be drafted in to drive tankers in the next couple of days to help alleviate the problem.

Reactions

Well the news Farage couldn’t get any fuel and crashed his car was met with a barrage of comments on-line.

1.

https://twitter.com/RiffmanDale/status/1443497527270072324

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If you had enough fuel to go to 7 petrol stations did you really need fuel in the first place?

— Bennett Arron (@BennettArron) September 30, 2021

3.

Unless you're tweeting this from underneath it, I'm not interested mate.

— Indy Left : 23 #IndyLeftNetwork (@IndyLeft23) September 30, 2021

4.

https://twitter.com/bindvdn/status/1443498442366627840

5.

Hope the van is ok…………ya 🤡 pic.twitter.com/gltFtDptKH

— Colin Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@ColinTaylor73) September 30, 2021

6.

Don’t worry. Additional drivers are crossing the channel as we speak. pic.twitter.com/BqsWIXLNlD

— Matt Gallagher (@TammRehgallag) September 30, 2021

7.

Welcome to brexit Nigel. You happy now ?

— she got the house (@FC19773) September 30, 2021

8.

Are you STILL here?! pic.twitter.com/6caWOp5GFh

— 🇪🇺 LoatheTories&Brexshit 🇪🇺 🇺🇦🌻🇺🇦🌻🇺🇦🌻 (@NaughtyAuntieB) September 30, 2021

9.

Hope the van driver is ok.

— Gordon Craig: (@gordoncraig11) September 30, 2021

10.

#BrexitShambles pic.twitter.com/en3bqXbVwG

— Anangri Ed 💙 (@anangri_ed) September 30, 2021

11.

Is there a goFundMe for the van 🚐?

— mRr3b00t (@UK_Daniel_Card) September 30, 2021

12.

Nigel. Can you provide the contact details of the van driver. I think we’d all like to pay for the damage to his van.

Maybe buy him a cake.

— 🇮🇹Fórcola🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@Frcola1) September 30, 2021

13.

I think he was trying to leave but couldn't find any petrol.

— Abdul qadir (@qadir_qadir7) September 30, 2021

14.

Was this not the Brexit you voted for? Oddly, it was the one I voted against. Still, you won, get over it.

— Paul Fernandez #DenyTaxDonate 💙 (@exilefromgroggs) September 30, 2021

15.

Well it’s a great start to MY day!

— Neil Minto (@MintoNeil) September 30, 2021

16.

https://t.co/mjDLDgConE

— Cold War Steve (@coldwarsteve) September 30, 2021

17.

pic.twitter.com/nqHraWmFRH

— Dom (@NickriversDb) September 30, 2021

18.

https://twitter.com/palaeopolitics/status/1443500960849047554

Related: Mark Drakeford shreds Tory party’s solution for HGV driver shortage in impassioned speech

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