Are the Northern Irish feeling lucky, right about now?
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At least Metro couched its reporting of the government-sponsored lie by saying the crisis caused by the lack of lorry drivers “is thought to have been exacerbated by the so-called ‘pingdemic'”.
We know the shortage of lorry drivers has little to do with the government’s Covid-19 warning app on mobile phones, though, don’t we?
It happened because of Brexit; the drivers have all been sent back to the EU nations where they were born.
And now the army has been put on standby to deliver supplies to supermarkets.
That’s 2,000 qualified HGV drivers to make up an expected shortfall of 100,000. Does that seem realistic to you?
We all know the truth, and we’re all saying more or less the same thing:
A functioning country in peacetime DOES NOT NEED ITS ARMY TO DELIVER FOOD
— Eva Feltham 💙 3.5% REJOINER FBPE FBPA (@MyGineration) August 8, 2021
And they bloody love a flag! Who doesn’t want our food being delivered by people who put flags absolutely bloody everywhere?!
The country has been in disaster mode since Johnson was elected. Tragic decision by the electorate, most whom had already committed us to Brexit. Voted Leave + Voted Tory + would do both again – how many do we think quality? Ten million? More? Fewer?
Given the amount of HGV qualified drivers in the Army this is nothing but a sticking plaster. Same when they roll out the Green Goddesses. Desperate PR from a Govt trying to convince us it's in control.
— Manumission – Guitarist with Tout-á-Coup Jazz (@lockforward4) August 8, 2021
There is one conclusion to be drawn from this story.
It is that Metro is written by stenographers for government propagandists, rather than by proper reporters.
A lot of journalists — including one who had to post a “please retweet” apology yesterday — are jerking themselves silly over a piece that includes the following paragraph. I analyse reams of British journalism daily. The majority does not deliver on this hubristic ideal… pic.twitter.com/LSnyvmD1gV
“Journalists check our stories about what’s going on against the facts and give us different, more truthful angles.”
That certainly doesn’t seem to have happened here! A caveat that the problem “is thought to have been” due to the ‘pingdemic’ doesn’t cut any ice.
Aren’t we lucky to have journalism like that of Vox Political, here on the social media! And what a shame most people are too busy reading Metro to even give it a glance.
Here’s a thought:
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Brexiteer Tory-funding bread manufacturer Warburtons has tried to blame its failure to keep up with local deliveries on Covid-19 when the shortage of drivers is actually attributable to Brexit.
In an article in The Grocer on July 19, the firm responded to a tweet complaining about non-delivery due to driver shortages:
We, like many businesses, are experiencing higher levels of absence due to the rise in community infection rates of Covid-19 and the knock on effect that has with more people having to self-isolate.”
But industry leaders soon went on the record to say that the shortage of lorry drivers is due to Brexit – and that supermarket shelves are likely to stay empty for at least five months:
They say the shortage of drivers can only be fixed if EU drivers are allowed back in the country.
Logistics UK, which represents freight owners including supermarkets.
It estimates a shortage of 90,000 HGV drivers including an estimate 25,000 EU truckers who have gone home following Brexit. On top of that there is a backlog of 25,000 applications for trucker driving licences.
Being a Brexiteer company, Warburtons is unlikely to admit that Brexit has affected it. Chairman Jonathan Warburton has previously made his feelings known:
— Schadenfreude 🏴 (@jeffsprogress) July 23, 2021
“Brexit is a very good thing to have happened. We are well out of the rotting corpse of Europe. We could either continue to be in the European Union and wait for it to all to collapse around us, or we could make our own way out of it and crack on as an independent nation.”
Now we see how that is working for him – and he is trying to deny it.
Several thoughts occurred to me while watching this train crash.
Firstly, they could solve their problem by hiring new drivers. Unfortunately, this is not possible because they would all need HGV licences and “there is a backlog of 25,000 applications for trucker driving licences.” So the Tory government is letting industry down. Should have thought of this before finalising Brexit – they only had four years of thinking time!
Secondly, there’s no reason to have any sympathy for this firm. It supported Brexit and is a regular donor to the Conservative Party whose government under Boris Johnson pushed Brexit down our collective throats. See This Site’s article on Tory donors for further information.
Finally, This Writer is old enough to remember news reports showing empty shelves in the former Soviet supermarket GUM, with Tories of the day spouting dread predictions that this would happen in the UK if the socialists were allowed back into government.
How ironic that it is under a Tory government, and due to Tory policies, that our supermarket shelves have emptied.
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