People asked why businesses don't train HGV drivers. Answer? The 'Conservative' Party. It always capitulates to business, who will never invest in training or higher wages, as they can scream 'Shortage!' at any time and have borders opened. Migration reform is finished.
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https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1441406375750357003
Why? Because every other industry will have learned the lesson from this HGV debacle. Instead of investing to solve the problem (with higher wages, training, staff retention schemes, productivity improvements), they know they can simply get articles in the newspapers to...
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...create panic (the Telegraph is sympathetic to business, and the Guardian to open borders, so they can work both ends). Businesses now know the government will always back down in the game of chicken. Every time wages look set to rise, they'll flood the market with labour.
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The 'Conservative' Party talks a big game on migration. Yet on the one hand, they're entirely unwilling to stop anybody who can cross the channel by dinghy. On the other hand, they'll open the borders as soon as businesses ask.
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