OT Shortage of lorry drivers? What is to blame?

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Originally Posted by MillerBill

Over 50,000 HGV licences awaiting processing at the DVLA but the civil servants in Swansea have still not returned to work.Just an handful are doing the job.There is no wonder lorry drivers are losing faith,these lazy sods should get back to work.

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Bill, do you honestly believe there's only a handful of staff actively working at the DVLA and the rest are refusing to work? If you actually think about it properly for just a moment, do you still believe it is likely to be true?

Just checking.

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Originally Posted by mygiddypant

Another Brexit-type exaggeration? I don't doubt Johnson will milk this for all it's worth, just like the Big Red Bus myth. And the gullible will echo it as though they know what they are talking about.

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just type in your browser. Labour £15 minimum wage.
Then take your pick.
Are they all wrong and you know something no one else on the planet does?

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Originally Posted by crashbang

just type in your browser. Labour £15 minimum wage.
Then take your pick.
Are they all wrong and you know something no one else on the planet does?

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If you actually google it and read beyond the headline, its not a Labour party policy and Starmer has stood by the existing party policy of a rise to £10.

There was a non-binding vote at the Labour party conference, as there is with many fanciful ideas, but don't get confused into thinking its means anything.

You crease me up.

Crash,you're wasting your time the "blinkered" refuse to accept the truth or anything they dislike.It is what wokes do.

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Originally Posted by MillerBill

Crash,you're wasting your time the "blinkered" refuse to accept the truth or anything they dislike.It is what wokes do.

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Correct, I'll leave it put on my Jeremy Clarkson smug face an have a Scotch.

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Originally Posted by crashbang

just type in your browser. Labour £15 minimum wage.
Then take your pick.
Are they all wrong and you know something no one else on the planet does?

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Apparently so. There's no way that this will be in the next Labour manifesto. Unless you know otherwise.

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Originally Posted by MillerBill

Crash,you're wasting your time the "blinkered" refuse to accept the truth or anything they dislike.It is what wokes do.

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I might be one of the blinkered, Bill, but it's better than being blind.

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Originally Posted by CAMiller

Back on topic. Here in the US there are 100s of container ships sitting out in the Pacific off the west coast awaiting unloading. The backlog is partially due to lack of dock workers and partially due to lack of lorry drivers. As each ship holds 10,000-20,000 containers that's a lot of stuff and the backlog isn't expected to be cleared until well into 2022. I assume people will be complaining they can't get their new iPhone XD

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I bet John told you so.

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Originally Posted by John2

If you actually google it and read beyond the headline, its not a Labour party policy and Starmer has stood by the existing party policy of a rise to £10.

There was a non-binding vote at the Labour party conference, as there is with many fanciful ideas, but don't get confused into thinking its means anything.

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You really are gullible John