Panic buying pillocks...

[Gnasher]

I think it goes deeper than that Gnasher. Two or event three decades of encouraging young people to universities for worthless degrees, insufficient training programmes and encouragement into worthwhile productive employments, ,media focus on an alternative reality in which everything is always someone elses fault and that the state will provide, privatisation of essential national services which has led to lack of investment and profiteering, and led to significant quantity of our energy supplies now being provided by foreign powers, who may or may not decide at some point to curtail supply

I couldn't agree with you more mate

They will end up having to put back just about everything that has been taken apart or sold off, to provide profit to the elite few and greedy corporations, all at our expense :evil  More than ever we need to be self sufficient (post B) and we're not even close, i.e. we can't even supply goods and fuel from warehouses and refineries.  The idea that 5000 odd EU drivers is going to solve the problem of a shortage of 90k plus, is just a joke, that's even if they can get them.  :rolleyes

Why would anybody work for just 3 months on crap wages, away from and get lobbed out on Christmas Eve? Just so you know who can try and save Christmas, because he buggered last year due to denial and short sightedness :rolleyes 

It's going to cost a small fortune to get them to work and many months to get UK drivers trained to drive and more time to get them to be able learn how to actually unload fuel and learn routes etc.  That many new staff arriving all at once will overwhelm many companies, not to mention they don't have the trucks to actually drive  :rolleyes 

Another casualty of profit above all else, where much of the goods, work and trucks were from the EU, as it was cheap long term contacts, all gone now  :rolleyes

This is just the start of all the weak links that will be exposed by post B, which will start collapsing, as our economy beings to restart post pandemic.  All of it was highlighted without the impact of Covid, again the gang just assumed UK workforce/companies will just fall over themselves to take up the low paid jobs created so they can max the profit and companies take less profit to pay higher wages etc. 

I think it's possible we're going to see the biggest thus far U turn of any UK government in history, only time will tell  :rolleyes