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3 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Ok I can see this HGV driver shortage is now grabbing all the headlines. Of course I advised on this about a month ago with @SarahOnTheNews on BBC Wales. So what really going on?
The fact is this driver shortage is totally avoidable and is directly coming from Government not letting FOM for EU drivers in the UK, because there not ‘skilled’. So they they have gone.
Moreover they don’t want to come to the UK, well can’t really blame them after making them all sit on a runaway for 5 days before Xmas.
So you may have notice a very large surge of EU trailers with a UK cab and driver, this gets round the EU driver problem crated by Government and #brexit. But now one lorry needs two drivers for the same supply chain. Not difficult to work out why there is a problem with supply’s
But of course Johnson remains quite on this as does the right wing press that control him. Meanwhile the bright stars in industry have been busy stockpiling inc me. So yes it’s totally shambles.

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Once again this evening I got asked why the UK doesn’t stop buying wine from the EU and replace that with ROW wines. So please understand the follow facts and your understand the answer.
1) The uk consumes 12M bottles per day, but the the UK produces 12M bottles per year, of which most of this is expensive sparkling wine.
2) currently 66% of this daily volume comes from the EU the rest is from ROW.
3) ROW are mostly at production capacity and sell most of there volume annually. So to change the demographics would be challenging and requires global cooperation.
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