Chivalry has disappeared in this chaos

BY FIONA PHILLIPS,

WHEN hard times hit, the human spirit usually soars.

Not any more, if what I’ve witnessed on the two occasions I’ve stepped inside a supermarket this week are anything to go by.

The kindness of strangers has virtually disappeared and in its place are crazed individualists, trolleys stacked high with tins, cereal and toilet paper.

On Wednesday, a weary assistant told me: “We’re fully stocked at 8am, when the store opens and cleaned out by 9am.”

Which can only mean one thing: Great Britain, known across the world for chivalry and orderly queuing has, in the past couple of weeks, become selfish, rapacious me-me-me Britain. A disunited kingdom.

Looking around, I spied a good few who could have done with going on a diet rather than grabbing everyone else’s share of the food as well as their own.

God help us if there were to be a world war again.

On my trip there were no basics, such as potatoes. I could happily live on spuds with a sprinkling of cheddar and a dollop of butter mashed in, for ever. Yum.

But no – no potatoes, no green vegetables either. In fact, not much of anything at all. The sharp-elbowed, selfish brigade had grabbed the lot.

So I trotted off to Boots for a bottle of No7 Line Correcting Booster Serum.

The weary checkout lady shook her head and sighed as she said: “You wouldn’t believe the behaviour I’ve witnessed over hand sanitisers.

“People shouting, screaming, pushing other shoppers out of the way – it’s really upsetting. It’s nasty dog-eat-dog behaviour. I dread each day.” Well done, greedy shoppers. You really should hang your heads in shame.

We’re all in this together.