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eagleman13 On The Road To Hell & Alicante 24 Sep 21 3.53pm | |
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Originally posted by becky
If the driver shortage is all down to Brexit, how come that it's only reared it's head now, some21 months after we left the EU? Things were fine up to 3 months ago....... About the same time as the Govt's deadline for ALL foreign nationals to register for residency, same as ex-pats in (most) of europe. You are of course right, it's got NOTHING to do with Brexit, thats just the remoaners crying foul again, as well as those that dislike the UK. Anyway, gonna be more shelves empty & petrol stations closed, seeing as those crusaders for the common man, 'insulate britain' have blockaded Dover & the foreign drivers wanting to return home for the w/e basically are *ahem* persuading them to desist & go elsewhere.
This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise. |
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croydon proud Any european country i fancy! 24 Sep 21 3.58pm | |
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Originally posted by AuntyAnne70
Perhaps not all down to Brexit, but Rod McKenzie of the RHA, states that the 20,000 European drivers who have left the country have left a big hole! Yeah, big hole indeed! The brexit thing only kicked in January , takes a little time to filter in, and here we have it! In boris we trust becky, in boris we trust!
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Spiderman Horsham 24 Sep 21 4.15pm | |
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Maybe it’s the anti-Brexit press that are fuelling panic? I know this doesn’t conform to the left agenda. Personally I would believe drivers but hey... Attachment: C692488C-7466-4E03-B173-A95DD139C4C0.png (617.08Kb)
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AuntyAnne70 Tunbridge WElls 24 Sep 21 4.17pm | |
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Remainers didn't cause this pantomime and I don't see the same problems happening elsewhere in Europe. But hey we have now given the go ahead to Ministers to relax UK immigration rules to allow more foreign truck drivers into the country to ease shortages at petrol stations and wider economic disruption.
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EverybodyDannsNow SE19 24 Sep 21 4.31pm | |
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Originally posted by Spiderman
Maybe it’s the anti-Brexit press that are fuelling panic? I know this doesn’t conform to the left agenda. Personally I would believe drivers but hey... So we should believe Neil on Facebook over all of the industry experts. Brexit in a nutshell really.
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Orange1290 24 Sep 21 4.33pm | |
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Originally posted by AuntyAnne70
Remainers didn't cause this pantomime and I don't see the same problems happening elsewhere in Europe. But hey we have now given the go ahead to Ministers to relax UK immigration rules to allow more foreign truck drivers into the country to ease shortages at petrol stations and wider economic disruption.
There's now plenty of work for European truck drivers in any of the 27 member states and they won't want to lose money through IR35 or by damaging their relations with their existing long term clients by working in the UK for only a few weeks or months. I don't think there'll be many takers for UK work anymore, not after the way many European workers were treated over the last 5 years in the UK. Edited by Orange1290 (24 Sep 2021 4.33pm)
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Spiderman Horsham 24 Sep 21 4.34pm | |
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Originally posted by AuntyAnne70
Remainers didn't cause this pantomime and I don't see the same problems happening elsewhere in Europe. But hey we have now given the go ahead to Ministers to relax UK immigration rules to allow more foreign truck drivers into the country to ease shortages at petrol stations and wider economic disruption.
I thought the EU were struggling for drivers as well? Still if it doesn’t suit an agenda don’t mention it Edited by Spiderman (24 Sep 2021 4.36pm)
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AuntyAnne70 Tunbridge WElls 24 Sep 21 4.42pm | |
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It was the irony of us thinking that the foreign drivers that we told we no longer needed/welcomed here may want to come back!
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cryrst The garden of England 24 Sep 21 4.49pm | |
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Originally posted by Orange1290
"Queues form at petrol stations as drivers urged not to panic buy"
Edited by Orange1290 (24 Sep 2021 12.11pm) IR 35 rules meant that these fruit pickers, lorry drivers, bar staff and other EU nationals had to go on the cards.
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steeleye20 Croydon 24 Sep 21 4.57pm | |
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Our pile up of problems does not exist in the EU. Did they exist when we were in the EU? No, they did not. Do they now? Yes, and forecast to get worse. Brexiteers live in a world of complete denial, as do much of the media and the government for obvious reasons, to the extent of projecting these problems on covid and editing out the truth that they are brexit related.
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Orange1290 24 Sep 21 4.59pm | |
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Originally posted by cryrst
IR 35 rules meant that these fruit pickers, lorry drivers, bar staff and other EU nationals had to go on the cards. Typically jealous of those who took the risk of being self employed and did nothing illegally and managed to get some benefit for that risk. You don't even know what the term reset means in any context, simply using terms someone else has used without understanding anything about it. Lots of this rubbish spouted over the last 18 months. The only people 'sucking' anything up are people like you right now with a mess of a country that Johnson has truly made. Still, keep yourself in denial as it provides mild entertainment for the rest of us but millions of UK citizens are suffering the consequences as a result of a selfish few. Edited by Orange1290 (24 Sep 2021 4.59pm)
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cryrst The garden of England 24 Sep 21 5.10pm | |
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Originally posted by Orange1290
Typically jealous of those who took the risk of being self employed and did nothing illegally and managed to get some benefit for that risk. You don't even know what the term reset means in any context, simply using terms someone else has used without understanding anything about it. Lots of this rubbish spouted over the last 18 months. The only people 'sucking' anything up are people like you right now with a mess of a country that Johnson has truly made. Still, keep yourself in denial as it provides mild entertainment for the rest of us but millions of UK citizens are suffering the consequences as a result of a selfish few. Edited by Orange1290 (24 Sep 2021 4.59pm) I've been self employed and know the risk.
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