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I as watching Shapps on Marr this morning - one point that I thought was very interesting was that there is still a belief that you can pay foreign workers less.
We are competing with the EU for these workers, and as you say they have the leverage. They're not going to come for buttons - they'll want at least as much as UK drivers are making and very probably more.
We're a rainy cul-de-sac of red tape and racists, where a driver is personally liable for his cargo having all the correct paperwork if crossing a border. We need to make that sound attractive, and £$£$ is what's going to do that.
Not, I suspect, for the drivers that we used to have - but Algerian, Turkish, maybe Romanian drivers would probably find the signing on bonus and the pay quite attractive.