EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUdbz82XVUw

Yeah, but I bet it was British coke and pills not cheap EU coke and pills.

The Telegraph.

THE TELEGRAPH!

^ Questioning use of 'if'.

"Global elite" is it?

So all the EU resident lorry drivers full of glee are now the "global elite" ? :))))

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58652210

Deirdre McIvor, chief executive of the NI Pork and Bacon Forum, said the labour shortage had become acute since the closure of the EU settlement scheme in June.

She told BBC News NI: "Since the end of June a lot of the workers returned back across to Europe and resettled there.

Nothing to do with Brexit will be the answer from Westminster...

I noticed that a lot of cheap basic products are discontinued in shops, so even if they had no price increase you can only get more expensive alternatives now which can be a 50 - 100% jump in price.

I wonder how people will like fields of burning pigs in the run up to Christmas?

Like the good old day of the foot and mouth diease?

I don’t know how many cows were killed during foot and mouth, the figure I’ve seen for pigs is 150,000- which seems like a lot of pigs (indeed, a lot of anything).

6 million cows & sheep;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_foot-and-mouth_outbreak

but better than "grading" tomatoes, peppers or cucumbers; easier jobs but soul-destroying and mind-emptying.

Grading was the fun bit, at least you got to think about what you're doing. QC on the conveyer pulling out the bent cucmbers that would jam up the graders if left (already been sorted twice by this point so not many!) is literally hell.

Nothing to do with Brexit will be the answer from Westminster...

Covid obviously

Still all soul destroying though isn’t it. Where did you do it? I spent 4 or 5 summers doing it in South Cave near Hull.

Absolutely, but it payed more than the fruit/veg market stall and the beach lake. I did a summer break whilst at college and then took a gap year between college and uni and did through to April at one of the cucumber nurseries between Nazeing and Roydon to pay for my first ever proper trips to Europe (family holidays were always Devon/Cornwall).
Before I left they offered me a permanent QC management position, but no way I could face that life. There were people who had worked there for years, living on site, working 7 day weeks and all the hours to pay for their family homes back in their home country. They worked so hard, no way I could do what they did. Some of the photos they showed me of their homes were so beautiful. During school breaks their wives/older kids/extended family would fly over and work a few weeks too.

HGV driver numbers, pork farming crisis, butcher shortages, no pluckers /packers, no one to bring fruit and veg from the field/poly tent.

Christmas is cancelled. Put that in your party conference agenda you bunch of c.u. next.tuesdays

Kwarteng says the UK just needs to work through it.

Easy to say for him...

It's funny many of the wage issues are worsened by de-regulation, as people buy cheapest and best, so businesses can't or won't put wages up. Exploitation in jobs barely gets investigated. So far no word on investment on cracking down on that.

Now he expect businesses to "just sort it out" and "invest in staff"

With no regulation or support. While cutting universal credit. And rising utility prices.

Seems ok because "the middle class just wants us to stay poor and bring in immigrants who don't come so Brexit is great!!!"

Well, interesting times. I suppose a Quorn made in UK veggie turkey may be a hit this year ;)

And the conservative conference may show splits in the party to us all. Labour may not have gotten a boost but they may sink themselves if they fuck theirs up.

Not sure I live in hope, but bring on the popcorn :)

Hopefully Manchester conference will have mass staff shortages for the Tories.. they deserve nothing less

we live in a country with rising child poverty, zero contract hours work, poor social housing despite mass building in London, increase in violence and predatory behaviour against women both in the home and on the street. We also have food price hikes and fuel cost rises to look forward.

Boris just assured Marr this is a period of readjustment and we're all going to like it due to the increased wages

Hopefully Manchester conference will have mass staff shortages for the Tories.. they deserve nothing less

If this happens, you can be assured the Beeb will have narrow shots of a very few protesters outside and then they will be blamed for all the problems. Priti will then use this to reinforce her protest clamp-down and they will carry on as normal.

I liked Johnson’s easy assertion that the RHA has failed to invest in roadside facilities for drivers- secured parking, accommodation and catering sites up and down the UK’s motorway network sound very much like something that a haulage association would have the money and political muscle to create.

Everything was someone else's fault in that interview
Pigs slaughtered for disposal- meat eaters
Poor sex crimes conviction rates - lazy prosecutors
Fuel shortage - car drivers
Low wages - immigrants
Supply problems - you mean demand problems aka consumers then

Only people he spoke up for were bankers bizarrely as some weird defence for national insurance gonna up on minimum wage earners

At what point will the voting public start to notice, is the million dollar question.

Shit keeps getting worse- ultimately who cares whose fault it is, they want to know who is going to fix it.

I think the Tories over estimate how happy people will be to eat, drink and power their cars on Culture War.

In a lot of headlines it says problems might continue until Christmas. What are they expecting to change after Christmas? Are they asking all the ministers to write a letter to Santa Claus?

Demand