Quote Originally Posted by regis80 View Post
I don’t think increasing the wages in particular industry is going to help as this will just move or create problems elsewhere. The bottom line is this, there’s not enough people to do the work.

What if you did increase the wage in the hospitality sector? The consequences of this is that it’ll draw people from other sectors there? How much do you pay per hour to your staff Mick? Those warehouse staff may could be attracted by the higher pay elsewhere? Just an example.
Also how will the hospitality sector pay for this? Increased prices for food and drink which we the customers have to pay?Then what if that puts you off eating out? What damage will this have if everyone did this. There’s a long term and short term damage as well as needing a short term and long term solution. It’s not as simple as just saying ‘yeah they should increase the wages’, when there’s nobody left to do it. There’s two obvious thing that’s caused this.

How much do we pay for gas compared to rest of Europe? Can someone find out for me?
You are absolutely correct.

These are loose figures, but I read somewhere there are now almost 1 million job vacancies. I remember reading at the turn of the year there was around 300k claiming job seekers allowance (these figures may have changed post Brexit). Spot the difference.

And the issue with the jobs that are needed most is that they don't fit with work-life balance. How many young kids want to live in the middle of nowhere picking fruit in somewhere like Lincolnshire, how many young people want to give up their evenings and weekends working in hospitality. How many young people want to spend their nights sleeping in a truck and their days driving around the country. Regardless of pay, these jobs are just not attractive to young people in this country.

One thing I hope Brexit will teach people, is that we rely on and need working immigrants for this country to function. Europeans were generally brilliant at doing these types of jobs, because they came here motivated for work. We basically stuck two fingers up to them with our Brexit vote.

As for gas, again I don't know the exact figures, but I know we are paying far higher than many other EU countries.