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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
BP now announced that some fuel stations will close due to the hgv driver shortage. And before the usual suspects chime in with ‘it’s not Brexit it’s the pandemic’ the managing director of Britains biggest haulage was on bbc news the other day and quite categorically stated that the pandemic had only highlighted the issue and that the primary cause was indeed our departure from the EU
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Sure, a problem known to exist on every continent of the world barring Africa is definitely all about Brexit. Honestly, I have no idea why you lot keep flogging this dead horse. The story has been debunked multiple times - most memorably in recent weeks by IKEA blaming Brexit driver shortages for non-availability of certain products in the UK, while blaming delays in shipping from the Far East for non availability of exactly the same products in Netherlands. Unsurprisingly IKEA UK withdrew that particular press release pretty rapidly, once they realised they’d been caught out.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/14...pandemic-Covid
It really is extremely simple: it is far easier to blame Brexit for anything that goes wrong in the UK at the moment than to admit to any shortcomings in ones own business strategy, because a significant portion of the population, the Twitterati and certain sections of the Press will swallow and regurgitate it uncritically.
We have an HGV driver shortage because HGV drivers have been treated like crud over many years. If Brexit has any part to play in this, it’s that our timely exit has only exposed an unsustainable situation that actually exists right across Europe. In the meantime, I can’t possibly imagine why the boss of a haulage company would prefer to blame Brexit than to blame himself for paying crap wages.