No other country has forced 25,000 HGV drivers to leave their country and go back to another country, only the UK has done that and that is primarily caused by 'brexit'. That's an extra 25,000 more for EU countries, in effect making it a 50,000 deficit. Additionally, with freedom of movement across the 27 nation bloc, resources can and will move where they are needed most. None of the EU 27 have massive queues at gas stations, none have supermarkets and retailers with empty shelves, none are having to issue 'visas' to get drivers and none has had to stoop so low in desperation as to call the army i. To keep their countries going.

Nice try but epic fail.

So how do you explain us having the biggest shortage of any European country?

Why have the government rushed to approve new visas if it's nothing to do with Brexit?

To deny Brexit is a factor in this doesn't seem at all logical to me - of course there are a myriad of other factors, of which Covid is a huge one, but it's very obvious that Brexit is too.

So how do you explain us having the biggest shortage of any European country?

Why have the government rushed to approve new visas if it's nothing to do with Brexit?

To deny Brexit is a factor in this doesn't seem at all logical to me - of course there are a myriad of other factors, of which Covid is a huge one, but it's very obvious that Brexit is too.

I’m not denying it as a factor, although I don’t remember anyone previously mentioning it as a likely outcome, just pointing out that there is a similar shortage in countries not affected by Brexit.

Stop relying on cheap foreign labour and start paying your own staff a decent wage and training them. We would still have this problem if we had remained.

Too little investment and poor productivity, blimey I sound like a lefty.

Give it time.

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