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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    ^ Desperate for something to say or just want to have a dig at Cyrille despite him being correct?

    Even those UK citizens residing in the EU after Brexit are limited to work opportunities in the country they are registered unless they change their citizenship.

    Brexit, together with its scamming covid entry rules make it bottom of the list for EU tourists. Forced pcr test after 2 days at silly prices, yet most nothing more than cheap home testing kits. It's a disgrace!
    No he is not correct and its about time you stopped being the OhOh of Brexit and moved on. Your desperation is showing when you need Cyrille, a failure as a human being and the most disliked poster on TD.

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    Die Thread ... just Die


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    what an utter dick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Loads of peeps becoming drivers for a living raking up to £40 an hour, considering a career change myself
    The wheels will fall off your truck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    The wheels will fall off your truck.
    It's a positive for the British economy.
    British drivers keeping and spending their wages in Britain or Foreign drivers sending the lions share out to their native country.
    No brainer really

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post


    what an utter dick.
    Such a primitive response from the self proclaimed Master of English leterature.

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    Time to get some of these workshy soap-dodgers off benefits and back to work.


    Pay jumps and job vacancies top 1 million in post-pandemic boom

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    Bit harsh on Chitty, but fair point.

    ^^ Wow - a real 12 hour stalkathon you've been on.

    I must have really hit a nerve.


    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    Such a primitive response from the self proclaimed Master of English leterature.
    Guess you'll have a quote of it then, if it was 'self proclaimed'.

    If so it would solve your spelling problem, too.

    ""


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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Bit harsh on Chitty, but fair point.

    ^^ Wow - a real 12 hour stalkathon you've been on.

    I must have really hit a nerve.




    Guess you'll have a quote of it then, if it was 'self proclaimed'.

    If so it would solve your spelling problem, too.

    ""

    Fuck off and die you porky faced worthless c u n t.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    Fuck off and die you porky faced worthless c u n t.
    Your understanding of great 'leterature' really shows.

    And you must have forgotten the selfies you've used as your avatar over the years.

    Brexit - It's Still On!-862879-531701ba-jpg


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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Your understanding of great 'leterature' really shows.

    And you must have forgotten the selfies you've used as your avatar over the years.

    Brexit - It's Still On!-862879-531701ba-jpg

    Everyone knows now, just how easily you are confused.

    Poor imagination, or no skills at all? Which could it be? I think you are due some new idiot mittens for your T shirt.

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    I hear there is a shortage of lorry drivers in the UK, but it has nothing to do with Brexit, Ha! Ha! It seems the government is still in denial over the colossal mistake of leaving the EU.

    Nothing to do with Brexit and yet:

    Some 14,000 EU HGV drivers left employment in the UK in the 12 months to June 2020, and only 600 have returned in the past year, according to analysis of Office for National Statistics labour force data commissioned by Logistics UK.


    Kieran Smith, chief executive at specialist HGV driver recruitment firm Driver Require, also strongly disagreed that Brexit could be dismissed as a factor in the current driver shortage.

    He told i: “[Brexit] is part of it by definition.”


    Mr Smith said the shortage is “partially due to EU nationals leaving” the country, adding that a European exodus accounts for approximately one sixth of the lost workforce.
    He said the main effect of Brexit on the industry has been the impact to the flexible nature of the sector, as the UK heavily relies on EU nationals to plug the gaps when demand increases in busy periods, such as the summer and winter months.


    “At least 50 per cent of the flexibility is born by European nationals, enabling the increase and decrease of drivers as the industry demands,” Mr Smith said.

    HGV driver shortage: Haulage chief hits out at Grant Shapps''' '''illogical''' claim Brexit not to blame for crisis

    The denial:

    Transport secretary Grant Shapps has denied that Brexit is part of the problem behind the shortage of lorry drivers – arguing that Britain’s divorce from the EU had presented solutions to the crisis.

    Brexit ‘part of the solution’ to lorry driver shortage, claims minister | The Independent
    Silly sausage...


    Of course it's because of Brexit and that is why the current solution is:



    Lorry driver shortage: Temporary visa scheme to run until Christmas Eve


    A temporary visa scheme to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in the UK is set to run for three months, ending on Christmas eve.
    It is understood about 5,000 visas may be issued, with more details about the scheme set to be announced on Sunday. A shortage of drivers has disrupted fuel deliveries, with some petrol stations closing, and queues forming. The government has said there is no fuel shortage at refineries, and urged people not to panic buy.

    The president of the AA said panic-buying rather than supply chain issues was driving the shortage of fuel at some petrol stations.Edmund King added that the problem should pass in a matter of days if drivers only fill up when they need it, adding "there is plenty of fuel at source".MPs and police forces have called on drivers to be "sensible", to consider filling up another time, and to avoid stockpiling fuel in jerry cans.
    ...

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58687026

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    The average age of a hgv driver is 55.

    55% have retired this past year.

    Nowt to do with Brexit

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    The average age of a hgv driver is 55.

    Half have retired this past year.

    Nowt to do with Brexit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Half have retired this past year.
    A big wheel I know in the International Pie and Bucket Conglomerate says many of them just drop their load in Pattaya and never return.

    Awaiting confirmation of a queue of Eddie Stobarts abandoned around backflaps of SiambburyOne of em married a lonterm penfriend called Lulu.

    Yet others were lured by rancid dancing Irish colleens with acces to full length EU salami or even a Welshman with a specialty sausage leek n ganja in a Can123.

    Jack Jones Van being out of action a Mr Santa Claws is being approached to see if hss reindeer can help, but new EU regs will require a transgender multcultural health and saftey certifed groom a Lion an Ass and 2 donkeys must procede any such "SLEDGING".

    Lions led by donkeys up yer chimmney default settings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    The average age of a hgv driver is 55.

    Half have retired this past year.

    Nowt to do with Brexit
    I guess half the poultry workers suddenly retired after Brexit as well...

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    So, there's less shite people don't need in the first place on the shelves, IKEA particle board rubbish, plastic this and that, essential exotic foodstuffs people can't possibly live without...oh ya.....blah blah. I think its hilarious, aren't we buying too much rubbish we only end up throwing out every year, including food?

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    ^ Yeah, let them eat cake....

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    So, there's less shite people don't need in the first place on the shelves, IKEA particle board rubbish, plastic this and that, essential exotic foodstuffs people can't possibly live without...oh ya.....blah blah. I think its hilarious, aren't we buying too much rubbish we only end up throwing out every year, including food?
    Interesting, Brexit is a good thing because it makes the English more product and consumer-conscious. Interesting.

    I'm sure Farage had exactly that in mind . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    plastic this and that,
    Shouldn't this be in one of the 'China is shit' threads ?
    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    aren't we buying too much rubbish we only end up throwing out every year,
    Hallelujah

    Are we to see you starting threads lambasting capitalisme and its MO of creating fake needs ?

    Lokking forward to that

    Never took you for a decent 'mench'


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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    Hallelujah
    Indeed glad you are seeming the light. These times are an appropriate moment to consider the way forward don't you think, much like COVD. You only have traipse around the shops in almost any country and they are full of people buying tat or replacing things unnecessarily.

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