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Originally Posted by Chris
Indeed. But if 80% of the shortage is caused by the pandemic, plus historically poor working conditions and low pay, and 20% or less is attributable to EU drivers no longer working in the UK, why, I wonder, are some people so desperate to obsess over the 20% rather than the 80%?
Actually I don't really wonder. It seems pretty clear that the usual suspects are continuing to latch on to anything that feeds the false "Brexit crisis" narrative they can't seem to escape from.
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Who are these shadowy usual suspects? For the avoidance of doubt, I've been clear it was a combination of things and cited the figures of 70k left the sector, 20k returned to Europe. But to deny that Brexit played a part as Ian Duncan Smith has done is foolish.
I've also quoted the Daily Mail which showed that other European countries have shortfalls in the HGV driver needs, but these were shown as far less than the UK's.