@Craig4P@Andrew_Adonis What reasonable point? You claimed the Common Market was a pro-EU con, it was a pro-Brexit con, and people have been deceived for 30 years. Including yourself.
@Craig4P@Andrew_Adonis I'm not judging either, had the referendum been in 2009, I'd have gone in with exactly the same views as you and voted the same way, but before 2016 I found out that that I had been told wasn't true. That we had been lied to on a massive scale.
@Craig4P@Andrew_Adonis Sorry, Craig. But this isn't about why anyone won, this is about what people were told and how people like yourself have been taken for a ride.
They also have drop trailer strategies which allows them to work on even less drivers, which we don't have in the UK because our freight industry is slanted to smaller carriers.
In short, do they want to talk about why the US has shortages and how they are different to the reasons that the UK has shortages, or were they trying to find anything they can point to that would muddy the waters.
@steveflatman@eveningperson@Jim_Cornelius@ByronEdwards9@Baddiel Well, Steve, since you're telling everyone what happened, while simultaneously proving that you don't know what happened and you don't have the self awareness to know you don't know what happened, the initiative was put on hold.
@steveflatman@eveningperson@Jim_Cornelius@ByronEdwards9@Baddiel And the initiative was put on hold because things were a bit ropey financially in the 1970s and the report that was put together was rejected, because it opened up an argument that we thought we'd got past in 1972.
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.
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.