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bimble said:
I wonder if EU drivers will rush back here in great numbers now that the Gov wants to give them temporary visas. Seriously doubt it tbh.
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Weren't you (maybe it wasn't you, but it was certainly someone) suggesting a few weeks ago that the solution to the driver shortage was to offer them all temporary visas as haulage industry bosses were demanding?

What if, as would be perfectly understandable, EU drivers don't rush immediately rush here in great numbers?

Would you and others then recognise that there is an underlying problem with the way many industries have been dependent on attracting large numbers of cheaper workers from the EU or elsewhere rather than creating conditions where jobs can be and are done by long term residents in the country where they're living, rather than the inherently unstable system we've seen in recent decades?
 
andysays said:
Weren't you (maybe it wasn't you, but it was certainly someone) suggesting a few weeks ago that the solution to the driver shortage was to offer them all temporary visas as haulage industry bosses were demanding?

What if, as would be perfectly understandable, EU drivers don't rush immediately rush here in great numbers?

Would you and others then recognise that there is an underlying problem with the way many industries have been dependent on attracting large numbers of cheaper workers from the EU or elsewhere rather than creating conditions where jobs can be and are done by long term residents in the country where they're living, rather than the inherently unstable system we've seen in recent decades?
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Problems? In our society? Regarding pay and work? First I've heard of it...
 
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They're going to proclaim this U-turn about visas for HGV drivers to be a marvellous example of how we can now 'choose to let in only the skills we need', aren't they?

Ignoring that we had frictionless, and much cheaper, access to all the skills we needed previously, which was basically all of them.
 
Cloo said:
They're going to proclaim this U-turn about visas for HGV drivers to be a marvellous example of how we can now 'choose to let in only the skills we need', aren't they?

Ignoring that we had frictionless, and much cheaper, access to all the skills we needed previously, which was basically all of them.
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I think it's not going to work. Companies can actually get visas for drivers at the moment, but it isn't happening. Making it a bit easier might help a bit, but I reckon the problem might be that EU drivers just aren't interested.
 
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