In a series of Facebook posts and tweets campaigners have indicated that they are preparing to blockade fuel refineries in order to bring the UK to a halt over what they perceive to be the ‘betrayal of brexit.’
Not all comments of this have been supportive but the majority have. It now appears to be gaining traction across social media:
Fuel protests have been used before in the UK and specifically in 2000 where they had a massive effect on the UK economy, according to WikiPedia:
The fuel protests in the United Kingdom were a series of campaigns held because of the cost of rising petrol and diesel fuel prices for road vehicle use. There have been three notable campaigns amongst many other protests in the 21st century. The first major protest in 2000 was primarily led by independent lorry owner-operators. One group of lorry owner-operators from the South East of England formed a protest group called “TransAction” that protested at oil refineries and fuel depots in Essex. Protests and blockades of oil facilities caused widespread disruption to the supply of petroleum products.
The aim of the protests was to secure a reduction in the fuel duty rate on petrol and diesel, which the government refused to enact. After the protest ended, the government did announce a freeze on fuel duties, and promised changes would be made to the way that goods vehicles were taxed, which would include the taxing of foreign vehicles operating on British roads.
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