BoJo desperately spinning:

Boris Johnson: petrol crisis and pig cull part of necessary post-Brexit transition

Queues for petrol and mass culls of pigs at farms because of a lack of abattoir workers are part of a necessary transition for Britain to emerge from a broken economic model based on low wages, Boris Johnson has argued.

And true to the ideology of the Tory party, the foreign secretary sounding all Republican:

His comments, on the first day of the Conservative conference, came as Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, insisted it was the role of business, not ministers, to sort out such problems.

“I don’t believe in a command-and-control economy, so I don’t believe the prime minister is responsible for what’s in the shops,” Truss told a conference fringe event. “This is why we have a free enterprise economy.”

Sure, a free enterprise economy can fix this. Said free market also could let a million people starve just to fix a supply-demand imbalance.

The Brexit chickens (non-chlorinated so far) are coming home to roost, and BoJo and company are desperate to put a smile on.