Interesting thought4 Sep 2021 14:27
Now you know I am a promoter of keeping on open 360 degree mind. A good friend in the supply chain industry has given me some inside knowledge about where all the truckers have gone.
The anti-Brexit lobby have been seeding stories that it is to do with Brexit, one of the slow drip drip campaigns to convince us to return to membership by claiming everything cast as a negative was all down to Brexit.
However, did you know that lorry drivers have a strict test regime when they enter the country? THAT is why many are staying away. Just like with travelling, there is the cost associated but there is also the danger of being suddenly caught out with a country status change. So drivers from the UK and from abroad or avoiding crossing the channel in both directions. Instead items with higher value are being flown in, the pilots are turning around not even leaving the aircraft and so no tests!!!!! You may have noticed the empty shelves are mostly for the economy items, the cheap orange juice, water and other heavy low mark up/loss leader items. There is also a strategy behind that. When they reappear, expect the low cost items to have shot up 50% or the like. It is the old trick of withdrawing a product and then putting it back some months later in a new price bracket because shoppers tend to forget what the old price was.
The other loss of drivers is to food deliveries. In lockdown, when partial opening up allowed for food deliveries from restaurants and fast food outlets, a large number of drivers on furlough or laid off took up deliveries and found they could make decent money without having to live in crapy circumstances spending days away from home.
Brexit contribution? Very little proven, there was already a trend of the eastern EU workers relocating back to their home countries because the local economies have been transformed over the last 10 years and are very different places wrt employment and standard of living. Money saved working in places like the EU over 10 years is enough to buy a very reasonable sized property outright in Bulgaria or Romania etc.
There you go, keeping that 360. You'll never hear this sort of consideration on your tele as the culture there is very solidly anti-Brexit.
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