How do you explain the shortage of lorry drivers in mainland Europe?
There is something Orwellian about all these ‘crises’ that we keep having in the UK. Stoke fear/panic and create crisis, then you solve the crisis and everyone loves BoJo.
We will be having the formation of a Junior Anti Sex League, big posters of our glorious leader and telescreens next.
We are short of approximately 100,000 truck drivers. About 20,000 are attributed to Brexit. Make of that what you will.How do you explain the shortage of lorry drivers in mainland Europe?
It’s really odd, as soon as govt says we are ok for food or petrol the general public behaves to the contrary. However, same general public seems to swallow their lies when it comes to the election?
Rather odd behaviour to say the least.
I don't quite get why we were fine for tanker drivers last week but not now, did they all wake up one morning and decide to stay at home?
Good Morning All,
When you have an EV...............
Regards
Richard
the frequent blaming of brexit for me does not cover what I am sure are many complex topics, my disappointment with brexit remains the incredibly poor media coverage across 4 years, I found it astounding that the entire media ( or at least parts of it) did not or could not clearly articulate in a pros and cons table the key issues or obligations in an intelligent summary form that the populace generally could look at and make an informed decision.
general public seems to swallow their lies when it comes to the election?
The saddest thing for me is how complicit the electorate is in perpetuating the situation.Only a few forecourts were affected, but once the media get hold of something and fan the flames the rest is history. However there is a general shortage of HGV drivers and that has been a growing problem for years now. Three main reasons for it... Brexit is one (EU workers lost the right to work here and new border regulations make it much harder to work between UK and Europe) the pandemic is another (many drivers left to join the booming home delivery industry, few HGV tests and training opportunities in the lockdowns etc.) and the third (more long term) is the industry suffers from a lack of appeal to younger people and consequently has an ageing workforce. Better pay and conditions would doubtless help with this, but when you are governed by ****ers that think a zero hours contract based economy is a good thing and have a nation that broadly expects to be able to buy everything for next to nothing that isn't likely to happen. This has been a problem brewing for a long time and one the government have entirely ignored doing their usual 'head in the sand and hope it will be alright' thing that they do and now they need to own it as it is of their own making. It will not be sorted out by allowing some 'foreign' workers to work here for 3 months and anyone who thinks it will is a borderline idiot!