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A thank you to Brexiteers.

One day someone will post an actual benefit of Brexit to shut up us remoaners.

Well maybe not enough HGV drivers to deliver food but they have had a pay rise :thumbs:
Prisoners getting employment is actually a good thing. I have never been to Nandos so no personal impact but people who can afford Nandos are at least middle class wankers on the Brexit impact scale.
A couple of pubs round here are not opening at lunchtimes because of lack of beer but it is surely only the idle rich who go to pubs at lunchtime?
Working class people who are not in hospitality or HGV drivers can just tighten their belts with the rise in food prices. Let then eat Pineapple.
I don't know if there is a Brexit boost in Portugal but still waiting for someone, after 8 months, to actually come out with anything that has benefited the UK.
Is the working class actually better off with higher food prices? Imust try a find a book to read all about it.
 
I'm 100% in favour of preparing prisoners for employment and hiring former prisoners - if I was in a position where I was employing people, I'd be very willing to give ex-cons a chance, and there have been occasions in the past where I've tried to help formerly incarcerated friends find work, so I know what a challenge it can be..

I don't think that position's incompatible with having misgivings about prison labour being used to fill the gaps when there's not enough workers for some of the shittiest, lowest-paid, and most dangerous jobs around, especially when there's a long and ugly history of abuse of prison labour in the poultry industry elsewhere.

The SPLC estimates that the Trump administration could significantly ramp up demand for state prisoners as an auxiliary workforce. Compared to undocumented Latino workers who have been the mainstay of Alabama’s low-wage poultry processing labor, work-release inmates are in some ways even more easily exploited and manipulated, the SPLC says, because “they won’t get arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but they can be sent back to prison, and they can’t move away.”

The exploitation of prison and immigrant labor are two sides of a continuum of economic degradation. Whether criminalized by immigration authorities or incarcerated by the state, these workers are disposable, interchangeable, and ultimately, invisible.

www.thenation.com

Prison Labor on the ‘Kill Line’

Prisoners are being used to staff dangerous poultry-factory work—and are being injured, or worse.
www.thenation.com www.thenation.com
 
Ian Botham has been appointed as the Uk's trade envoy to Australia. This is great news, cant wait to find out who they will send to negotiate with India.
 
Yossarian said:
I'm 100% in favour of preparing prisoners for employment and hiring former prisoners - if I was in a position where I was employing people, I'd be very willing to give ex-cons a chance, and there have been occasions in the past where I've tried to help formerly incarcerated friends find work, so I know what a challenge it can be..
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I think James Timpson is an amazing bloke in this forward thinking business strategy. He is someone who should be honoured (but might reject it) Done a lot for marginalised members of society especially during the pandemic.
Top bloke. :thumbs:
 
bimble said:
Ian Botham has been appointed as the Uk's trade envoy to Australia. This is great news, cant wait to find out who they will send to negotiate with India.
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I think you've missed some alliteration there. The correct way to tell this story is Brexit Benefit; Botham Bats for British Business.

Graham Gooch is presumably a shoo-in for India.

Kate Hoey got Ghana btw.
 
Ive seen the middle class Gammons complaining in shops that that some of their favourite foods arent on the shelves anymore. These gammons voted brexit and were warned that this will happen ( amongst all the many other things ) and they are now complaining about it. Gammons are vile.
 
the only new bit is that "a government spokesman" said this about it on Friday:
"The British people repeatedly voted to end free movement and take back control of our immigration system and employers should invest in our domestic workforce instead of relying on labour from abroad."
www.bbc.co.uk

Lorry drivers: Act now to avert crisis, government told

Retailers and lorry firms join forces in call for new work visas, training and better Covid testing.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
This was published Friday, which was the first I'd heard of it:

Driver shortage crisis: grant 10,000 temporary visas to EU workers, says Logistics UK

<p>Government must prioritise the granting of 10,000 temporary work visas to encourage EU drivers to return to support the UK’s supply chain, according to business group Logistics UK.</p>
logistics.org.uk logistics.org.uk

E2a actually a correction... the first i heard of it was one or two people tweeting that the government had rejected the request, (they's heard it on the news apparently but no links) so I googled and found the above article but that was all at the time.
 
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teqniq said:
This was published Friday, which was the first I'd heard of it:

Driver shortage crisis: grant 10,000 temporary visas to EU workers, says Logistics UK

<p>Government must prioritise the granting of 10,000 temporary work visas to encourage EU drivers to return to support the UK’s supply chain, according to business group Logistics UK.</p>
logistics.org.uk logistics.org.uk

E2a actually a correction... the first i heard of it was one or two people tweeting that the government had rejected the request, (they's heard it on the news apparently but no links) so I googled and found the above article.
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its been going on a while. Its not the first time the gov has rejected the request. eg)
bimble said:
it is interesting that the government keep on saying no to these endless increasingly alarming pleas from the logistics people for special temp visas for hgv drivers same as they gave to farmers. I don't really get why they are doing that.
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bimble said:
the only new bit is that "a government spokesman" said this about it on Friday:
"The British people repeatedly voted to end free movement and take back control of our immigration system and employers should invest in our domestic workforce instead of relying on labour from abroad."
www.bbc.co.uk

Lorry drivers: Act now to avert crisis, government told

Retailers and lorry firms join forces in call for new work visas, training and better Covid testing.
www.bbc.co.uk
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would be nice if this government spokesperson had explained how issuing a quota of temporary work visas would be in any way incompatible with "taking back control". cos it sounds pretty controlled to me.
 
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