I'm a Remainer (often changed to "Remoaner" ho ho ho.) I've been pro-Europe since I campaigned for us to join the Common Market... er... a long time ago.

In 2016 I was shocked and appalled at the referendum result and campaigned against it. In December 2019 after the election that swept Boris to power with an extra 80 seats from people who believed slogans written on buses, I decided I would stop opposing Brexit and stop complaining about it too. Before it had only been a referendum. December 2019 was a proper general election which gave a large majority (in MPs) for Brexit.

OK, I thought. Maybe the collective wisdom of the voters knows something I don't. I stopped even arguing with Brexiteer friends about it. Fine, I said, the people have voted for it. Stupidly, wantonly, carelessly, in my opinion, but I could be wrong.

Sadly, I wasn't wrong. We're seeing the results everywhere. Supermarket shelves have large random gaps. Nobody can get staff because the staff willing to work for them have gone back to Eastern Europe.

So have at least 30,000 of the lorry drivers we need to run our stupidly wasteful just-in-time-delivery economy.

Did the government spot that this might be a problem and take steps in, say, 2018 to find and train more UK HGV drivers?

Nope.

Now shortages of HGV drivers is leading to shortages of petrol in some areas, not in others.

The twits and morons currently in charge told everybody that everything about Brexit would be all right, it would be easy, no worries.

They were of course lying, but a lot of people believed those lies.

The thing is, there is no actual shortage of petrol or diesel. The shortages at petrol stations are happening because the minute the Minister for Transport said "Everything is fine, there's no shortage..." everybody immediately said,

"Oh shit, there's going to be a shortage of petrol - quick, I've got to get petrol into my car RIGHT NOW."

In other words, the ridiculous scenes at petrol stations were caused by a Government Minister telling the truth - which everybody assumed was another lie and started panic-buying.

I'm sorry, I find this hilarious. I know it's serious but it's funny.

My Brexiteer friends seem to have gone a bit quiet too.