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Oh Dear Oh Dear.
Deputy first Minister SNP says,UK is heading for a winter of discontent. Since the Tories went ahead with Brexit......Shortages and empty supermarket shelves show Westminster isn't working....
Boris and his party simply do not have the Brains to match the Brawn.
Boris spoke of Brexit and the Sunlit meadows beyond, but failed to mention the food rotting in the fields because there is no one to pick it. The end of freedom of movement and the clamp down on immigration will be a disaster fo the U/K.
Boris and his party simply do not have the Brains to match the Brawn.
Boris spoke of Brexit and the Sunlit meadows beyond, but failed to mention the food rotting in the fields because there is no one to pick it. The end of freedom of movement and the clamp down on immigration will be a disaster fo the U/K.
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the food's been rotting in the fields for a while
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there are certainly gaps on supermarket shelves
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(note that I have taken care not to link to left-wing newspapers there). So I'm not sure what gulliver's supposed to be getting wrong. He has his hobbyhorses no doubt, but then so do a great many ABers, whether it's to do with being anti-democratic or just killing alpacas. Yet others seem not to attract the same personal bile.
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there are certainly gaps on supermarket shelves
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(note that I have taken care not to link to left-wing newspapers there). So I'm not sure what gulliver's supposed to be getting wrong. He has his hobbyhorses no doubt, but then so do a great many ABers, whether it's to do with being anti-democratic or just killing alpacas. Yet others seem not to attract the same personal bile.
The issue with gulliver is he blames every problem affecting the UK on Brexit, ignoring events like a pandemic, the ongoing effects of the Suez canal blockage and the lack of commercial vehicle drivers. The supermarkets in my area, depending on the time of day and the day itself, can have depleted shelving but according to the managers the biggest problem within the supply channel is delivery, i e the lack of drivers.
//For the past 38 years Tim Clarke has relied on seasonal pickers from eastern Europe to harvest peas and other vegetables...//
Well he should not have done so. That said, you can't blame him. If the UK government subscribes to a system that provides limitless supplies of low cost labour from abroad then it's only natural employers will take advantage of it. The downside is that such schemes suppress the pay of people who live here and who might have been likely to do the picking. They end up on generous benefits instead and so the vicious circle persists. There is no reason why the UK should import unskilled labour any more than it should import the type of vegetables that farmer Clarke grows.
//Problems [with the lack of HGV drivers] have been blamed on a combination of Brexit and the pandemic, and have been worsened by the so-called “pingdemic” of workers forced to isolate themselves after being alerted by the NHS Covid app.//
There is ample evidence to suggest that Brexit has had only a marginal effect on the lack of HGV drivers (there are shortages of drivers across the EU). Come to that, so has the pandemic. The principle problem is that driving an HGV is an unpleasant and poorly paid job and many drivers have left the business. Once again, the solution is not to ship in cheap labour from abroad but to improve the pay and conditions of UK drivers. Some companies have already begun to do this. It is a problem that has been brewing in the industry for years and has been left unaddressed because employers relied on being able to fill gaps with imported labour. They can't do that now so they need to up their game.
Membership of the EU has distorted the economic model which the UK should follow and it will take some time to cure that distortion.
I've just realised, this is one of Gulliver's threads and I don't usually participate in them for obvious reasons. It seems to be going OK off and on. We'll see.
Well he should not have done so. That said, you can't blame him. If the UK government subscribes to a system that provides limitless supplies of low cost labour from abroad then it's only natural employers will take advantage of it. The downside is that such schemes suppress the pay of people who live here and who might have been likely to do the picking. They end up on generous benefits instead and so the vicious circle persists. There is no reason why the UK should import unskilled labour any more than it should import the type of vegetables that farmer Clarke grows.
//Problems [with the lack of HGV drivers] have been blamed on a combination of Brexit and the pandemic, and have been worsened by the so-called “pingdemic” of workers forced to isolate themselves after being alerted by the NHS Covid app.//
There is ample evidence to suggest that Brexit has had only a marginal effect on the lack of HGV drivers (there are shortages of drivers across the EU). Come to that, so has the pandemic. The principle problem is that driving an HGV is an unpleasant and poorly paid job and many drivers have left the business. Once again, the solution is not to ship in cheap labour from abroad but to improve the pay and conditions of UK drivers. Some companies have already begun to do this. It is a problem that has been brewing in the industry for years and has been left unaddressed because employers relied on being able to fill gaps with imported labour. They can't do that now so they need to up their game.
Membership of the EU has distorted the economic model which the UK should follow and it will take some time to cure that distortion.
I've just realised, this is one of Gulliver's threads and I don't usually participate in them for obvious reasons. It seems to be going OK off and on. We'll see.
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