Brexit or pandemic? What’s behind the UK petrol crunch

Queues at petrol pumps remain widespread in the United Kingdom on Wednesday.

Profanity is uncommon on the rarefied radio waves of the BBC, so any swear words on the network’s flagship news programme, Today on Radio 4, are sure to shock.

So it was perhaps inevitable that some colourful comments made during a segment on the United Kingdom’s petrol crunch this week would go viral.

“The EU workers we speak to,” said Edwin Atema of the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions (FNV, which represents lorry drivers), “will not go to the UK for a short-term visa to help [the] UK out of the shit they created themselves.”