Main headline on the BBC this morning:
“The government is planning a temporary scheme to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in the UK.
Final details are expected this weekend, but any changes to immigration rules would be temporary, and there would be a cap on the number of workers allowed to enter the country.
Newspaper reports suggest up to 5,000 temporary visas could be issued.
A shortage of drivers has disrupted fuel deliveries, with some petrol stations closing, and queues forming.
The Road Haulage Association estimates the UK is short of about 100,000 HGV drivers – with existing shortages made worse by the pandemic and Brexit.”
So the Government was okay with the lack of hospital workers (at all levels) and food rotting in the fields while supermarket shelves were empty because the British refuse to work long and unsociable hours for lousy pay and poor working conditions, but now office and factory workers and senior MP’s might not be able to drive to work??? Something must be done!