It takes time to train a HGV driver Jim, we left loads back in europe, theres talk of giving the odd 10,000 of them a way back, temporary, its all down to brexit mate! Still, if we take them back, pay them well, maybe a bonus for coming, we need them, its win win ! Can you have a word with your countrymen to be kinder to us in gb Jim, we are your besties remember !

In our local Waitrose yesterday there were a number of empty shelves including a complete absence of loo rolls.

Signs were in evidence asking customers to be patient during the current difficulties caused by delivery problems (I can't remember the exact wording).

According to a staff member I chatted to, the Co2 and delivery shortages are being exacerbated by folk panic buying again. What is it with this desperation for loo rolls whenever there's a supply issue?

Anyway, this Co2 issue does appear to be causing problems in all sorts of areas (not least in the brewing industry) and the doom mongers are already forecasting a miserable Christmas.

Look out lads, just when we thought things were looking up too..........

It isn’t ‘all down to brexit’ and you know it isn’t.

It isn’t ‘all down to brexit’ and you know it isn’t.

The question is why is the UK the victim of HGV driver shortages of a completely different level to those in Europe? There is no shortage of CO2 elsewhere in the world and why are wholesale gas prices three times those in France, Germany, Spain etc.?

I don't recall reading anything that highlighted the shortage of HGV drivers pre-brexit.

Let’s just say the lorry driver issue is ALL down to brexit. It is this sort of thing and it looks like only this sort of thing that gets either of the main parties to sit up and take notice of where we’re heading by constantly importing cheap labour and not training and paying our own properly and with good working conditions. I’ve heard these are the reasons that EU workers are in the jobs and our own citizens are not. Therefore Brexit always can be an opportunity to correct things, and you could say the reliance on a false valuation of the labour in lorry driving is the reason, and importing cheap labour is just a patch up job that makes the situation worse the longer you ignore it. A bit of pain (missing out on your favourite food items or just brands) will be worth it if they actually do address the faults they’ve just ignored for so long.