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Why Is Britain Running Out Of Everything?
Gaps on supermarket shelves. Fast food outlets pulling milkshakes and bottled drinks from their menus. Restaurants running out of chicken and closing. Empty vending machines. Online grocery orders full of substitutions. Fruit and vegetables rotting in the fields.
These are just some of the most visible signs of Britain’s deepening supply chain crisis, which has seen stocks in shops and warehouses slump to their lowest levels since the Confederation of British Industry began surveying in 1983.
It has led to dire warnings that the UK’s food system, which has been hit hardest by delivery delays and labour shortages, is in danger of reaching breaking point and may not be able to meet Christmas demand.
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These are just some of the most visible signs of Britain’s deepening supply chain crisis, which has seen stocks in shops and warehouses slump to their lowest levels since the Confederation of British Industry began surveying in 1983.
It has led to dire warnings that the UK’s food system, which has been hit hardest by delivery delays and labour shortages, is in danger of reaching breaking point and may not be able to meet Christmas demand.
Full article here
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Gulliver-- It is not only the UK suffering from food shortages. Don't you remember last year when the farmers in Spain were talking about the foreign labour shortages. They blamed it on Covid because of restrictions that meant the workers couldn't work together in the fields. Also many foreign workers went back home to be with their own families at that stressful time.
there's a quite thoughtful analysis of the overall labour market problem here
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It suggests a perfect storm hitting a country that had long been unprepared for it.
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It suggests a perfect storm hitting a country that had long been unprepared for it.
There's only one problem the UK has, and has had for a very very long time. If you have no job, you get given money along with many of your bills being paid for you, and on top of all that you can go to a food bank for free food. So unless you have any self respect, or care to make any effort whatsoever to better yourself, they will carry on dossing , and take the easy life. In many other countries, if you don't work you don't eat. Its been put forward many times, if you are getting tax payers money you should be put to work, were there is work, whatever that work may be, working in fields picking veg whatever, if you refuse, then your on your own. The work keeps people focused on the real world, and makes one value the income they get, however large or small. Lets face it what else is someone going to do with their time if not at work, stop in bed until mid day. Will this government ever enforce that? never, so the same old problem will persist, most crime is also committed by unemployed at night because they don't have to attend work the next day.
11.47 T/C, I have often wondered , these people who scrounge from the Tax payer. They get their rent paid , council tax ,paid and a whole lot of other Benefits . it must add up to a tidy sum , surely all that would bring them into the Tax bracket themselves, do they have to pay tax on all these freebees.
Universal Credit is a non taxable benefit. However if you are on Employment support allowance (support group) that is classed as taxable. My friend who worked full time from 16 to 57 years old receives this as she is unable to work due to having a stroke which has left her serverley disabled. She is in the so called support group rather than the work group as she is unbale to work so does not have to sign on etc. This benefit has/is replacing Job Seekers Allowance. She also receives a pension given to her early by her ex employers and because of this she pays tax on her benefit. Not really fair when others receive a non taxable benefit including rent/rates, child benefit, food bank supplies etc. The whole benefit system needs to be overhauled to ensure that those who cannot work any longer do not lose out.
In a nutshell Gully its easy money for doing nothing for able body people, most that have been claiming for years, finding every excuse they can to avoid going back to work. There are many many teenages and way above that age that are fit enough to work. When you keep giving free handouts then they will never go to work. Then you have the ones that deal drugs, easy money again, on top of state benefit. If they were made to work they would have less time to deal drugs. Regarding Bakerswales @ 12.22 friend I have no problem in those sort of people getting help from the state/taxpayer, but many just invent a health problem to avoid work.
//Any Idea why these E/U Nationals have returned home Emmie?//
Well more than six million of them haven’t. That’s the number of applications that have been made by EU nationals for settled status here. You keep on banging on about how the country is desperately short of labour because EU nationals have returned following Brexit. Well 6m is about 10% of the UK population. If we cannot get by with one in ten people here being from the EU then there is something seriously wrong with the UK’s business model. If Brexit UK is so terrible and the EU is so wonderful, why is it that those 6m people are still here? (I don't expect an answer).
//…do not misinterpret What N/J posts.//
Misinterpret away! For those not quite sure (and there cannot be many) my post was sarcastic. That’s mainly because it becomes extremely tiresome to continually hear that all the troubles that bedevil the UK are because of Brexit. As wonderful as the EU is, they too are suffering problems similar to ours, particularly as far as HGV drivers go (as I pointed out on another thread).
//It can’t be Brexit, it is the fault of the last Labour Government. Not sure why, but it must be.
Sorry Gromit, wrong again. As everybody knows, it’s all Mrs. Thatcher’s fault. Teacake has hit the nail on the head to explain why so many jobs are dependent on foreign labour:
//In many other countries, if you don't work you don't eat.//
Well more than six million of them haven’t. That’s the number of applications that have been made by EU nationals for settled status here. You keep on banging on about how the country is desperately short of labour because EU nationals have returned following Brexit. Well 6m is about 10% of the UK population. If we cannot get by with one in ten people here being from the EU then there is something seriously wrong with the UK’s business model. If Brexit UK is so terrible and the EU is so wonderful, why is it that those 6m people are still here? (I don't expect an answer).
//…do not misinterpret What N/J posts.//
Misinterpret away! For those not quite sure (and there cannot be many) my post was sarcastic. That’s mainly because it becomes extremely tiresome to continually hear that all the troubles that bedevil the UK are because of Brexit. As wonderful as the EU is, they too are suffering problems similar to ours, particularly as far as HGV drivers go (as I pointed out on another thread).
//It can’t be Brexit, it is the fault of the last Labour Government. Not sure why, but it must be.
Sorry Gromit, wrong again. As everybody knows, it’s all Mrs. Thatcher’s fault. Teacake has hit the nail on the head to explain why so many jobs are dependent on foreign labour:
//In many other countries, if you don't work you don't eat.//
//Cradle to grave for some then.....//
Not only "could" they spend a life on benefits, many do. Some families have three generations where nobody has ever worked. Life on benefits provides all you need - a roof, food, drink and enough for some luxuries. It doesn't perhaps provide enough money for all you'd like to have, but if you've taken the decision not to work, you will be comfortable enough.
Should you become ill in old age and need social care, that, too will be paid for. Meanwhile the sucker dozing in the armchair next to you who went to work for fifty years will pay not only for his own care (until his life savings almost run out) but also a contribution towards yours because Local Authorities (who, for some inexplicable reason, are called upon to fund such care) will not pay the full rate.
It's a different world.
Not only "could" they spend a life on benefits, many do. Some families have three generations where nobody has ever worked. Life on benefits provides all you need - a roof, food, drink and enough for some luxuries. It doesn't perhaps provide enough money for all you'd like to have, but if you've taken the decision not to work, you will be comfortable enough.
Should you become ill in old age and need social care, that, too will be paid for. Meanwhile the sucker dozing in the armchair next to you who went to work for fifty years will pay not only for his own care (until his life savings almost run out) but also a contribution towards yours because Local Authorities (who, for some inexplicable reason, are called upon to fund such care) will not pay the full rate.
It's a different world.
Yep thats the way it is, they've seen their parents doing it for decades so they think no wrong in it. I was watching a TV program a little while back about the slate mines in Wales, men had a 2 hour walk to get to the mines in the hope of a days work when they got there, the earlier they set out the more chance they got there before others, and got a days work, a twelve hour shift, then a two hour walk back home. What you get today is, the farmers fields are to far away from were I live, well tuff you don't eat, but if you live near the coast then go and clean up the ruddy beach, they wouldn't get away with it if I could have a year in office.
Good news NJ,
Reports of 6 million EU citizens living in the UK are not true.
The true figure is about 3.5 Million.
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Reports of 6 million EU citizens living in the UK are not true.
The true figure is about 3.5 Million.
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