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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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You are exactly right here Chris.
We were short of drivers before Brexit, which has no doubt heightened the issue in the short term more than not, but in the long term will probably not.
It's obviously a reason, like all the others, why some are no longer here.
But the poor conditions, and other factors, which are nothing to do with Brexit need to sort themselves out and long term I think the government are doing the right thing distancing themselves from anything but a short term fix.
The Government can't make haulage companies pay their staff more or give them better working conditions where they don't spend 12 hours in a truck on the motorway peeing in a bottle because they don't have time to stop at services.