BREAKING: A Whitehall source has told Sky News that the government is expected to mobilise the army as a precaution amid the ongoing queues at petrol stations around the country.@BethRigby has the latest.https://t.co/mL0sZ9UBi8 pic.twitter.com/KrGLCBwxaP

— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 27, 2021

Army put on standby to ease pressure on petrol stations https://t.co/jJ7nDov8EU

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) September 27, 2021

We're several days from it dawning on UK politicians and journalists that the British army does not have the driver numbers to make more than a marginal impact on a national supply chain crisis

— Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) September 27, 2021

There is a steady 15% of voters in this country who would like the army to be in charge of petrol stations regardless of supply problems

— Will Davies (@davies_will) September 26, 2021

Critical workers would be given exclusive access to certain petrol stations to ease the fuel crisis under an emergency government plan https://t.co/zBWao7LxLM

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 27, 2021

The UK is temporarily suspending competition laws to allow the fuel industry to target petrol stations most in need of fresh supplies – as the government considers using the army to help with deliveries https://t.co/nn5zcRHups

— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 27, 2021

Some people didn’t believe ministers’ assurances on fuel and started panic buying. Others saw queues and joined in. Panic buying became rational. Ministers claim “no shortage”. Closed petrol stations say otherwise. Should there be more or less trust in the next assurance?

— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) September 27, 2021

Tuesday’s FT: “Fuel buying frenzy puts health services at risk, doctors warn” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/7FuHsAa3Vz pic.twitter.com/QKf6IUeZLw

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) September 27, 2021

Total chaos on Edgware Road as cars block the road to get into a petrol station. #fuelpanic #london pic.twitter.com/TXZfiKpZRG

— Annette Dittert (@annettedittert) September 27, 2021

There are no shortages of food or petrol anywhere in the EU, because free movement of goods and people over the whole continent mitigates the lack of drivers in individual countries

If the UK was still in it, it wouldn't be sending in the army

SO YES, IT'S BREXIT pic.twitter.com/DyGPsGXPE8

— Alex Taylor (@AlexTaylorNews) September 27, 2021

Northern Ireland is free from petrol shortages. But 90% of UK mainland petrol stations out of fuel. Rarely in economics is there a controlled experiment- this is it. Johnson’s Brexit = a fuel crisis non-existent elsewhere in Europe, including Northern Ireland. Only we suffer.

— Will Hutton (@williamnhutton) September 27, 2021

UDPATE: Stormont ministers agree to scrap social distancing restrictions for shops, theatres and a number of other indoor settings in Northern Ireland https://t.co/znRPKFPnGK

— BBC News NI (@BBCNewsNI) September 27, 2021

How do we get requests for Army support for hospitals one week and reduction in restrictions the next?

— David McCann (@dmcbfs) September 27, 2021

Is anyone else really tired? 18 months of pandemic, now a fuel shortage and energy crisis to take us into winter? I feel like society – politics and public services, yes, but also just individual mental resilience – is on its knees already. It’s exhausting just thinking about it.

— Rachel Cunliffe (@RMCunliffe) September 27, 2021

Every so often, a handful of inordinately privileged men sets us against each other, tears the country apart and leaves a trail of ruined lives.
Then we brush ourselves down, spend a few years forgetting it, and vote another handful of them into office.

— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) September 27, 2021

The report assessed that “Trump’s post-election conduct in Georgia leaves him at substantial risk of possible state charges predicated on multiple crimes.” https://t.co/JcS5OIOsNr

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) September 27, 2021

Citing a June ProPublica report, the committee says there is “credible evidence” of Meadows’ involvement in events leading up to the attack on the Capitol. https://t.co/ZRHaSxztnp

— ProPublica (@propublica) September 27, 2021

As the Proud Boys marched to the Capitol on Jan. 6, a member of the far-right group was texting real-time updates — to his FBI handler.

The informer gave the bureau an inside view that day, according to confidential records obtained by The New York Times. https://t.co/QkBptydk2Z

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 25, 2021

In superseding indictment, feds allege group of Jan 6 defendants *conspired* as early as December 2020…. including to "stop the steal and stand behind Trump when he decides to cross the rubicon" pic.twitter.com/n8KY826Fui

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 27, 2021

In this piece with @dorfonlaw & @NeilHBuchanan I explain what we must do NOW to prevent this Trumpish gang of fascists from upending the Rule of Law to destroy our constitutional democracy in 2024. @GlobeOpinion https://t.co/BFw1kPa9Zw

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 27, 2021

.@BennieGThompson says Jan. 6 select committee has issued additional subpoenas but wouldn’t name targets

— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) September 27, 2021

'Trump is going to try again': CNN's Jake Tapper sounds the alarm on future MAGA coupshttps://t.co/bRS1spwQRf

— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 27, 2021

Nearly every Republican including Cheney embraced Trump before Jan. 6. He was calling the election into question for months before Nov. 3. https://t.co/nYz4sQBLOf

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 27, 2021

Parts of Trump’s own voting base view him more skeptically now because of his support for the vaccine, and that skepticism has furthered him talking about “freedom” from mandates. https://t.co/QBTwsEXqpa

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 27, 2021

CIA officials under Trump discussed assassinating Julian Assange: report https://t.co/gTRmnwHuEq

— The Guardian (@guardian) September 27, 2021