How are we doing post-Brexit?

[Flankerl]

The entire idea was that the dirty foreigners weren't supposed to get into the UK.
They forgot that they are the dirty foreigners in other countries.
After all Brits aren't immigrants, ever. They are "Expats".

 

[Altfish]

... and then he sent me £56m to control …. wait for it …….. his border……

 

[Altfish]

 

[Martin]

Have a nice Brexit Christmas (bah humbug).

Lorry driver shortage poised to hit Christmas with shoppers facing low stock and price rises

 

[Martin]

No chicken and chips! And maybe no roast taters with the Bah-humbug-Brexit Christmas dinner!

Why chicken and chips may be off the menu after the latest Brexit disruption

 

[Martin]

Criminals with meat cleavers?!

Prisoners to plug worker shortage in meat industry

 

[Stevicus]

Criminals with meat cleavers?!

Sounds legit. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Martin]

Sounds legit. What could possibly go wrong?

Probably a lot of meat "falling off the back of a lorry".

 

[Kooky]

Criminals with meat cleavers?!

Prisoners to plug worker shortage in meat industry

So they are resorting to literal forced labor.

 

[ChristineM]

So they are resorting to literal forced labor.

And at prison wages it going to be more like forced slavery

 

[Martin]

Labour shortages continue in many industries, apparently due to the lack of "cheap" labour following Brexit. A lot of UK employers still don't seem to have realised that there need to be long-term improvements in pay and conditions.

 

[Altfish]

Supermarket shelves are definitely less full

 

[Augustus]

Labour shortages continue in many industries, apparently due to the lack of "cheap" labour following Brexit. A lot of UK employers still don't seem to have realised that there need to be long-term improvements in pay and conditions.

It's interesting that most people who opposed Brexit are left-leaning, yet there is increasing evidence appearing that EU free movement of people was indeed contributing to wage suppression in many working class professions.

I wonder if this will make any reconsider their belief that working class people supported Brexit only did so because they were "stupid racists getting fooled by right-wing media"...

 

[Secret Chief]

Supermarket shelves are definitely less full

When I was last in the Co-Op there was an intermittently played message broadcast, which basically apologised for the shortages of products due to the national shortage of delivery drivers. The biggest empty shelf contained the oven-ready deal.

 

[ChristineM]

What i find strange is the distinct lack of brexiters telling us how great brexit has been for britain so far.

 

[Secret Chief]

What i find strange is the distinct lack of brexiters telling us how great brexit has been for britain so far.

Well you're not in the UK to experience it first hand are you. We have arrived at the sunlit uplands of our rejuvenated great nation, where opportunity, confidence and optimism are now flourishing. But now those unwelcome foreigners have buggered off, we've got no food on the ******* shelves. Or cat litter.

 

[England my lionheart]

Nobody is interested in doom and gloom past tense losers,it’s happened so move on,COVID has been the main problem otherwise it’s been great since we cut ties with mrs mopp and emperor macron for me,enjoy your wallowing but don’t look back in anger.

 

[Secret Chief]

Nobody is interested in doom and gloom past tense losers,it’s happened so move on,COVID has been the main problem otherwise it’s been great since we cut ties with mrs mopp and emperor macron for me,enjoy your wallowing but don’t look back in anger.

It's not the past we're on about. It's the present. It's today that the local supermarket had no cat litter, not in the past. That is because of a shortage of drivers. That is because of brexit.

Builders today are paying inflated prices for basic hard-to-obtain materials. They will pass this on to their customers. That is because of brexit. The list goes on and on. Only the rich and the racist are happy.

Tell us all what is so "great". Actual practical, physical, real world stuff that is great as a result of brexit (so I'm not asking for vacuous farage BS).

 

[ChristineM]

Nobody is interested in doom and gloom past tense losers,it’s happened so move on,COVID has been the main problem otherwise it’s been great since we cut ties with mrs mopp and emperor macron for me,enjoy your wallowing but don’t look back in anger.

So your local supermarket is not feeling the stock shortages, no empty shelves? You local butcher has all the meat needed to supply your neighborhood?

Sorry bud, its not me who is wallowing, and yes you could say i was, if not angry then at least very pissed about what an idea sold on lies has done to Britain and my family and friends who have to live in it.

And Boris is so thankful for covid, he can blunder about with that and the great British public forget the mess he's got the country into?

 

[England my lionheart]

So your local supermarket is not feeling the stock shortages, no empty shelves? You local butcher has all the meat needed to supply your neighborhood?

Sorry bud, its not me who is wallowing, and yes you could say i was, if not angry then at least very pissed about what an idea sold on lies has done to Britain and my family and friends who have to live in it.

And Boris is so thankful for covid, he can blunder about with that and the great British public forget the mess he's got the country into?

Im not seeing shortages personally but there will be problems on both sides but it will get better.