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The turkey industry needs skilled workers to slaughter and butcher turkeys. For an apparent animal lover you’re also steam rollering the fact that not a lot of people don’t want to work in an industry where they kill and butcher animals. Even amongst the people who consume the end product.

How am I telling the wrong person? The only reason we’re having this conversation this morning is because you decided to bring it up in the first place and deliberately decided to name check me into your post. If you don’t want to talk to me about you could go a long way to stop that by leaving...

You’ll note that the people all over the brexit threads telling remainers that they are wrong aren’t all over them gloating about the benefits. And before someone suggests that maybe leavers have more humility than to gloat I’m going to call bollocks on that in advance. You’re talking about a...

It’s massively bigger than elsewhere and the fact is that the one part of the UK we left in the single market (Northern Ireland) isn’t having the same issues the rest of the UK is having. Even the backlog at the DVLA has been exacerbated by the Tories, they defunded the DVLA, they closed 32...

Blinded by politics/brexit would be to deny neither have anything to do with the labour shortage in many many industries.

So what about the staff shortages in the wider haulage industry, care home industry, farming industry, meat processing industry, service industry etc etc etc. You clearly think you’re being clever by being stupid.

I thought the booster is a different jab to what you had the first time? All the vaccines work slightly different from each other so it’s not just increasing the quantity of what you already have in your armoury it’s about increasing the amount of tools in your armoury. I think we all know...

I think they’ve seriously misread the room and are banking on a return of a hard border. I don’t believe personally that there’s a wholesale appetite in the Protestant community for a return to a hard border. Especially true of border communities where large numbers work in the south or work in...

Looks like the NI Unionist parties have just signed their own death warrant. They’ve all just made a joint statement saying that they all oppose the NI protocol. It’s either that, a return of the backstop or a united Ireland. They don’t seem to have any suggestions for anything else.

Go and watch Rugby Town on the odd occasion but it’s been years. In fact I think the last time I went we had a pre season friendly there. I support both England and Northern Ireland as I’m a child of two nations. Some people think I should also support Rangers because of my Northern Ireland...

It’s too little too late anyway. This problem has been coming all year and the experts were trying to warn the government all year but it fell on death ears.

So it’s coming out that a House of Commons Transport Select Committee predicted this in a report in 2017. Government ignored the warnings.

Ha ha ha. Is there any part of your persona that isn’t fantasy.

Pfft. Okay Penfold. How’s your fantasy life these days.

As it comes from a guy who believes a long dismissed urban myth about a radio fiction drama then it’s absolutely a compliment. Anyone daft enough to believe urban myths is hardly a good judge of anything.

Worth pointing out that I have also acknowledged other issues such as backlog in other posts. Also pointing out that this pre dates Covid and stems from the government closing over 30 DVLA offices, defunding the DVLA as part of the failed austerity program and also contracting out parts of the...

The driving shortage has been a story all year so not one headline by any stretch of the imagination. Just not been covered in any detail by the majority of the MSM. This has been building for a while, just no one was paying attention until the empty shelves started appearing.

Hardly aimlessly. Pre brexit yes we had a drivers shortage but we were managing, post brexit we no longer manage and the government’s only real fix is to partially reverse brexit and issue a few thousand visas to EU drivers who didn’t previously require them. If it had nothing to do with brexit...

Made the same point earlier. If you look at the timeline of events it was government ministers pushing this briefing that triggered the panic.