This driver strike is really starting to get on my nerves. The tankers drivers and their “huge amounts of responsibility” are just a bunch of greedy, idiots who are not garnering any sympathy from the public.

The British public has got it hard enough as it is - barely being able to afford fuel and when we finally scrape up enough cash to do a weekly fill; there is no fuel in the pumps. Well that’s just bloody fantastic huh.

Haulier chief Bernie Holloway told a newspaper: “I have no doubt it will get worse. We only have three days to replenish supplies before another strike starts. Stock levels will already be below where they were at the start of the dispute.”

Well that’s good news folks.

The worst part about this nonsense is that amount of money these guys want. They have already refused a wage of £41,500. It makes my blood boil. These guys already earn more than teachers – who teach our children to read and write, Nurses, paramedics, junior doctors – who can save your life, bus/train drivers – who are responsible for driving kids to school, hundreds of people a day. So why the living hell should some guy why drives a truck get more than them?

They claim it’s due to the hazardous nature of the contents. What? People in shops who get £5.90 an hour have just as much chance to killing themselves in some way while doing their job. It’s pure greed. I know it, the public knows it, hell I’ll bet even the drivers know it.

The Government’s said a total of 647 petrol stations out of the UK’s 8,700, were affected in one way or another, including the Shell garages. Texaco has also said between 30 and 40 of its station had run dry, while Esso also reported problems.

Unite’s chief negotiator, Len McCluskey (and guy who gets all the backhanders) announced that the talks would resume as he visited a picket line at the huge refinery in Stanlow, Cheshire said, “We are pleased that formal negotiations will resume”.

It’s like playground stuff. People have always wanted something they don’t deserve. I for one hope the government steps in at some point and tells them if they don’t like it, quit.