Don't panic...

‘Don’t panic’ the government tells us as the country hits yet another crisis, this time caused by a shortage of lorry drivers that should have been evident for a year or more.

And the tabloids add to the panic with bold headlines telling of panic at the petrol stations, showing queues of cars.

But will the makeshift plan to bring in drivers from Europe who left, disgruntled, solve the problem? Why should they bother for a temporary recall.

The government, as so often, has done no risk assessment, has had no  plan B.

One of their belated ideas is to call in army driving instructors.

I might even apply. When I visited a Welsh regiment in Germany on a visit with the chairman of the county council I had a go at driving a huge tank transporter - with its eighteen gears. 

I managed to move the monster about a hundred yards.