The UK is set to face a beer and crisps shortage due to a lack of delivery drivers and strike action - your views online
Food shortages
The UK is set to face a beer and crisp shortage due to a lack of delivery drivers and strike action.
Quyen Lam
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Hide AdJust beer and crisps? Supermarket shelves are already looking empty from baked beans, wine, chicken, tinned foods, fresh fruit and veg. Well done Tories.
Gavin Markham
Three words - Brexit, Tory, incompetence. I’m still amazed by voters who don’t think Scotland can do perfectly well on our own. Heeds in the sand stuff. Ostrich party.
Shaun Allan
So we won’t get two pints of lager and a packet of crisps.
Tiger Cairns
And you all thought this nightmare was over....it ain’t even started.
Sharon Mooney
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Hide AdBeer, crisps, yoghurts, chicken – soon we’ll be on rations because food is running out. So-called government is a joke.
John Blythe
Frankly less beer and crisps is probably a good thing in terms of your health. Generally you should be eating and drinking less of those anyway. Thanks Brexit.
Bryan Wood
Set for? Peroni and Moretti beer is already in short supply... we're already experiencing a shortage of food items such as chicken. I'd say thats a bigger concern.
Helen Wemyss
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Hide AdI think this is least of our worries considering what’s going on In the world. Alcohol is the biggest killer out there but accepted by all… boils my blood!
Gillian Hazelwood
Brexit hasn't exactly helped either!
Paul Burgess
Not just beer and crisps, lots of empty shelves in the supermarkets. Isn't post-Brexit life wonderful?
William Orr
If this keep up we will all be stick insects.
Pawel Łuniewscy
What an incredible place. One day in 2016 (Brexit) and whole country collapses No drivers, nurses, so many hotels, pubs, restaurants, etc are closed for good. Shelves in well known shops nearly empty, pharmacies the same. I know it’s a bit easier to blame Covid-19 but the facts are so clear they're talking louder than myths.
Peter Anderson
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Hide AdAll the sheep who voted for Brexit and far right wing politicians and policies – you deserve all you get.
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Freelance sign language interpreter! Still doing it.
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Crawford bakery – loved it.
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Got a sub-contracting job planting random bollards on random streets and junctions on behalf of Edinburgh Council - didn't even require planning permission! Then I got promoted to randomly dumping giant wooden planter boxes to block residents streets at random. Once I even blocked my own exit route and had to mount the pavement to escape! The whole thing didn't seem too well planned out and no-one I worked with had a scoobie what we were doing or why we were doing it.
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James Dunbar Ltd, office junior, first wage was £15. I hated Mrs Stevenson, she didn’t like me much either. Loved the small office across from the factory, hated having to go to said factory to get weekly figures. Loved the drivers whose runs I used to plan! It was a love hate kinda job.
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Office clerk at Autoglass - lots of laughs, constantly wound up by the guys.
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Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Office job in the Examinations Department. Loved it.
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YTS, 1982, £25.50 a week for a wee shop in Bonnyrigg. Still remember that scary outside toilet.
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