Seems there is a general shortage of workers, lots of news in the german tv channels yesterday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-...shire-58410363
This was also in the news yesterday, water purification in England cut to make up for lack of disinfectants, supply chain failure
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...mical-shortage
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19...ical-shortage/
And empty shelves..
https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/03/food-...sues-15202901/
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...ec-2021-09-09/
Not good news. I take it, while it is not the only reason, brexit
does have an impact.
EU workers are still denied to work in the UK. Some will not even want to come back after brexit and this special experience, especially when loans are so low, and while they have to apply for a visum now. And to be honest England is not exactly making it easy getting working visa even now, certainly due to brexit and national politics behind it.
So train UK citizens to make up for losses of whatever cause of course, but 1. takes a lot of time and 2. some will not want to do the work foreigners did before.
Same here of course. I take it the EU can compensate and balance for a while, but in the end brexit and driver shortage will also have an impact here.
And if this all was not enough yet, gas prices are soaring in whole Europe with gas reserves being already tapped early in september. The winter is said to become brutal
https://electroverse.net/uk-fires-up...rtage-worsens/
the UK is thinking about firing up coal plants; gas prices never were that high in Germany. Maybe North Stream II was not the badest of ideas.
Now what could be done against all this in a short time.. preventing bad decisions in the future, or at least thinking beforehand, will not help now.
B.t.w. where are Farage and Cummings?
Nigel does a tv show with the usual right wing hate paroles
"GB News is positioning itself quite openly as a nationalist television channel that propagates the war of cultures and tries to score points with topics such as illegal immigration and transgender lobbyism. So that's why Nigel Farage. He should fix it."
https://translate.google.com/transla...sten-1.5365184
Cummings is miffed about he had to leave before he could make Johnson lave
"Speaking of Brexit, Cummings said no one could know if it was a good idea to leave the EU . "I think anyone who claims to be certain about it has a screw loose," said the ex-advisor.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/...-17446978.html