Who is to blame for the fuel crisis – and not how to solve it?

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The focus of the company has shifted from taking responsibility and problem solving to the mentality of “how do we fix this?” Now the first port of call is not to rectify, but to blame, as the surmountable problem persists as we instead channel our energy into finger pointing. This blame now manifests as “responsibility”. “Reasons” are reclassified as “excuses” as we are looking for a person or entity to hang, draw and dismiss publicly.

At the time of this going to press, we may well still be in the midst of a fuel “crisis”, which, (he says ascribing the blame), was solely due to the national media raising the indicator to scared, and thus gave them a copy of the front page for days. to come. You may have spent this morning in a four-hour queue blaming the “greedy” in front of you, for your need for oil is nobler than theirs. The teacher needs gasoline to fuel the minds of your children, the baker has to get to work to support herself and the nurse, running on steam, thinks she is the most deserving, while we look away from solving a problem that shouldn’t have existed. in the first place anyway.

First, we blamed “the government” for once again shifting from proactive to dormant responsiveness. The writing has been on the wall for weeks regarding truck drivers, but it was only after queues formed at the pump that they decided to temporarily allow truck drivers European heavyweights to make the must-see list along with, perversely, ballet dancers and concert pianists (which tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the braying Bullingdon boys).

As you might expect, the government refuses to admit any wrongdoing, because to admit that such a thing would tear the hearts of their entrenched fanbase, so after many denials the blame players change course and pin the tail only on the donkey that is Brexit.

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With that comes a level of complacency as they, having waited less than patiently for their opportunity, openly ask if Brexiteers are happy now? Oddly enough, the shortages of 2000, followed by those of 2005 and 2007, caused mainly by the protest group ‘transaction’, were not mentioned, as we were members of the EU at the time.

Neither did the “blame” mention another direct effect of our exit from the EU, that of the current administration’s only notable success: the deployment of the vaccine. Without having to go through the administrative formalities in which Europeans like to tie themselves so much, we would be far from the vaccination figures that we have, when we did, if we had stayed. Leaving the EU arguably saved the lives of many citizens, despite the lack of public recognition of this action.

Cars line up for petrol at Tesco in Lower High Street, Watford

The “blame” then turns to those who have refueled in their car after having “changed” their habits. A man posted online that he had stood in line to put in just £ 20 in fuel because he is not greedy. He called others selfish and worse, because he justified his actions as acceptable, but others as stains on society. His work? He works in finance.

In all areas of life we ​​continue to blame. My local green belt is, as regular readers know, on the verge of being compromised with the Hertsmere Council’s local plan to concrete over two thousand acres of lush arable fields teeming with wildlife. Appropriate environmental terrorists then “blame” the government housing targets (although they are conservative and have not challenged the goals set by their overlords) before, perversely citing “the fight against climate change” and the “need” to build affordable homes, which no one under an income of £ 80,000 will ever be able to afford on this great slice of blue ribbon green belt.

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It has now become epidemic: at work, the first response most when a problem arises is not to fix it but to immediately seek out a scapegoat with a “it’s not me, it’s them” mentality. “. It only creates a society of bleating, where the once laudable attributes of loyalty and calm under pressure are only a distant memory.

As for me, I have enough fuel to last two weeks and plan to pop over to Sainsburys later for a week of shopping where the shelves will inevitably be more bare than a nudist in a nudist camp. The only thing left for me to do after shopping is to spend the madness at home and save fuel, while we put Buckaroo and Cluedo aside and play yet another part of the ball.

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