UK Black Friday: closed petrol stations, rationed petrol, queues at airports

LONDON. The specter that haunts the UK is that of a stranded country. Because today is a Black Friday across the Channel. Some petrol stations closed, petrol rationed, queues at the petrol stations. Not only that: in London at Heathrow, the country’s main airport, but also in Manchester and Scotland, long lines of passengers have been generated because the automatic e-gates system (i.e. when you cross the border simply by scanning your biometric passport) went haywire due to a collective breakdown.