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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

These vacancies haven't just appeared... they've been needing staff across agriculture and food processing for months. Why would the british public who appear to have made it clear that they dont want to do this type of work
suddenly say 'oh, go on then....' never mind that most people wouldn't pass their HGV licence....

Brexit IS PARTIALLY to blame for what we're seeing at the moment.

You can't just implement higher wages for obvious economic reasons.

Unless you're going to substantially reform the benefits system so it acts as a safety net rather than as a lifestyle choice as it does to a section of claimants the only choice is to import labour into the country

I can certainly accept the highlighted sentence, though I'd have worded it: "What we're seeing at the moment is a partial consequence of Brexit".

However, Brexit isn't invalidated by the labour shortage.