CNN: Fuel Crisis, Shortage in Labor Threaten Britain’s Recovery of Repercussions of  Corona Pandemic

“CNN”, a US news network shed light on the worsening of the fuel crisis in the United Kingdom (Britain) over the last few weeks.

The network said that the rising cost of energy, rocketing prices of commodities, and severe shortage in the workforce are factors that thwart food supplies and fuel.

Those factors threaten to abort the recovery of Britain from the Corona pandemic.

These crises that inflict the economy of the UK have stirred controversy in media outlets and among politicians over the “ Winter of Fury”  which looms on the horizon in implying the wave of strikes that took place in 1978-1979.

Those strikes made the British economy knelt then. Nowadays, there is talking about inflation in the UK that will be accompanied by a slump. Economic experts warn of stagnation and rising inflation, according to CNN.

It is worth noting that shortage in labor and delay in the chain of delivery along with rising in cost of food and energy were monitored in major economies in the world including the United States of America (USA), China, and Germany.

But Britain suffers more due to walking out of the European Union (known also as the Brexit).

“CNN” explained that Britain’s withdrawal from the EU led to introduce harsh policies of immigration and pushed Britain out of the European markets of energy and commodities.

It becomes more difficult to British companies to recruit European employees, as trading with Europe costs more despite Europe is the major trade partner with the UK.

The US network considered that the shortage of labor in Britain is not an enviable result of the Brexit but it is an outcome of policies and ideologies of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to walk out of the EU amid difficult negotiations with the European Commission.

Many treaties in vital fields including energy between Britain and the EU were frozen that followed by introducing harsher immigration policies to reduce the number of non-trained workers to the UK.

Meanwhile, the British government said that it seeks to terminate dependence on that sort of labor.