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25 Sep, 7 tweets, 1 min read
Matt did 2 minutes of research and believes that claiming Brexit was the main driver is stupid.

I read through every single Freight Transport Association skills shortage report and investigated the issues in the US, Poland and Germany.

Claiming you know it wasn't is stupid.
Claiming you know it wasn't after 2 minutes of research is just ridiculously stupid.
Germany has a problem. One the big drivers was the loss of national service. 10 years ago 20% of their drivers had got their qualifications in the army.
Ending national service 10 years ago has had an impact.
We ended national service in 1963...
But the level of debate we have in this country will still be:
"Germany has a problem"
"The UK has a problem"

Therefore:

"It's the same problem"
It's very depressing.

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25 Sep
I still remember the referendum talking about how the £ might drop and being told "That's good for exporters".

And it was good for exporting labour.

It was also bad for importing labour.
Having a strong £ was a really good thing when it came to solving this crisis, and I've yet to hear someone making this connection, but it's not one that wasn't made at the time.

It was a comparative advantage in a free market for labour and Brexit got rid of that comparative advantage.

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24 Sep
Personally, I don’t agree with a lot of this by @julianHjessop. There is a whole question that has to be answered with regard the state of the transport industry going into the pandemic, and so far I have not seen it asked or answered.

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Please take note, Julian is my favourite Brexit economist who makes his arguments on proper economic principles, and therefore, please do not abuse him. I am, as he has done at other times before to other people, simply scrutinising his work.
Firstly, the article asks if Remainers can say they were right, and so I looked into what we actually said.
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16 Sep
My two penneth is that if China join CPTPP then digital provisions in trade deals becomes even more superflous than they were before.
THE reason that CPTPP has digital provisions is because Japan wanted to ensure that other countries in its region didn't adopt the digital protectionism of China.
Cue a lot of people getting excited about digital provisions and how new trade deals are better with them, despite the fact they largely involve promising to not do something that nobody was going to do.
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24 Aug
I don't know about you, but I'm beginning to see a pattern here. (Thread)
Boris Johnson admitted at college he did cocaine, and then said he wasn't sure what it was, and the said he didn't actually inhale.

Which is well known politician language for "I snorted my tits off".
Michael Gove has admitted he has taken it on several occasions, which in Gove language could mean anything from doing it s few time to heading a drug cartel and trying to push kids into taking smack.
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22 Aug
Good news! We can now try and recruit software engineers from India to pick our crop and drive our HGVs.
And what a polished political line that "Indian Software Engineer" was.

Both appealing to people's Empire fetish and trying to pretend ending FoM was nothing to do with racism.
"We don't have to take" - We did have to take. Not because people were being forced onto us, but because we had the jobs to do the work that needed to be done.
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18 Aug
This is all true, apart from the fact the campaign was supposed to have ended in 1982, and it was the least extraordinary thing ever.

They took Ireland to court because Ireland told them to.

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In 1975 the problems with a “Buy British” campaign were clear. How do you establish what is British? What proportion is British? Is it branded British and foreign? Is it even available from a British company? Image
When Ireland started a three-year campaign on the 18th January 1978, they had thought about all of these problems and came up with intelligent practical solutions.
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