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Re:Many UK petrol stations run dry amid panic buying by azernik on Sunday September 26, 2021 @03:35PM (#28663905)
Bad policy for all of the people who need petrol to drive; for all of the people who work at the (temporarily, thankfully) closed stations; and for anyone who works at businesses that rely on regular petrol supplies.

Basic functioning of the economy and of supply chains is an objective public good.

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Re:Many UK petrol stations run dry amid panic buying by jl6 on Sunday September 26, 2021 @03:44PM (#28663983)
My point is that there are winners and losers here. It sure would have been convenient for the rest of the UK if they had carried on importing cheap labor, but that wasn’t what the Brexit-voting working classes were thinking about.
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