Great post and well put. there is loads of companies though through the country that get you through your hgv test but they expect you to stay on as little as wage as possible and doing the ****tiest jobs for 2 years until it pays for your test. If you leave before that you’ve got to pay them back. Some driving agencies are also doing this.
What we have always said is coming true, mate. All the EU workers coming over were driving down wages. There's British people ready to do the jobs but employers aren't happy because we want proper wages, whilst they still want to pay peanuts. Look at the link put up yesterday where the farms aren't even advertising their jobs in the UK... There's companies that still want to pay HGV drivers £9 and £10 an hour. Laughable. It's a stand-off but sooner or later these companies will have to crack and start paying proper wages because a lot of EU folk won't come back. They've had it far to easy employing cheap labour but that free ride has come to a sudden halt.
Just a heads-up for everybody... Make sure you get your gas and electricity readings sent in today otherwise your energy company will be estimating where you are at for the new charges kicking in tomorrow and that could go against you meaning you'll be paying more than necessary.
The former home secretary Jack Straw has admitted that dropping immigration restrictions on eastern European migrants was a "spectacular mistake" on Labour's part. The Labour MP said handing immediate working rights to Poles and other nationalities who joined the EU in 2004 was a "well-intentioned policy we messed up". "One spectacular mistake in which I participated [not alone] was in lifting the transitional restrictions on the eastern European states like Poland and Hungary which joined the EU in mid-2004. "Other existing EU members, notably France and Germany, decided to stick to the general rule which prevented migrants from these new states from working until 2011. But we thought that it would be good for Britain if these folk could come and work here from 2004. "Thorough research by the Home Office suggested that the impact of this benevolence would in any event be 'relatively small, at between 5,000 and 13,000 immigrants per year up to 2010'. "Events proved these forecasts worthless. Net migration reached close to a quarter of a million at its peak in 2010. Lots of red faces, mine included." Jack Straw: Labour made mistake letting Poles in early | Jack Straw | The Guardian
Brexit please log in to view this image Belgium is looking for 5,000 lorry drivers to prevent empty shelves (brusselstimes.com)
Its not the Poles we want shot of its the pigs in the Westminster trough who would sell anything to line their pockets pigs like Jack Straw for instance.
I'd personally like to see this guy have another crack at parliament please log in to view this image
Boris Johnson accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid immigration, amid shortages at petrol stations. Speaking on Saturday, he said: "What we don't want to do is go back to a situation in which we basically allowed the road haulage industry to be sustained with a lot of low-wage immigration." He added that a "mass immigration approach" had made the sector less attractive by reducing wages and "the quality of the job". "People don't want that. They want us to be a well-paid, well-skilled, highly productive economy and that's where we're going." please log in to view this image
Come on Boris, keep trying, it covers absolutely every situation. Now, repeat after me, "This is a global problem." https://dai.ly/x84ajku Isn't it great to know that Malaysia has more Covid deaths, China has more HGV vacancies and Italy has queues at petrol stations Makes you proud to be British when Boris says 'its a global problem' knowing that, for every problem, there's someone out there somewhere who's worse off.
I always imagine the scene when Bonko got the first of his mistresses pregnant whilst his wife was suffering from cancer to run along these lines. Mrs Bonko sobs "Boris, how could you do this to me at a time like this? " Bonko replies "Um ah yes darling it's true, but it depends on how you look at it. For instance did you know that more French men on average have cheated on their wife than British men. And did you know that in Pakistan men are allowed to have more than one wife at a time" etc. etc.
You have to hand it to him, he just keeps getting away with it, fair play. I have a mate who's the same, can walk into any bar with his Sunderland shirt on, insult people, get caught playing away and everyone just laughs it off. His best, in a bar rammed full of Black lads in London was, "How come you lot can't swim, do you have heavier bones than normal people." They fell about laughing ffs
Is that why he hid in a fridge? Is that why he took a reporters phone off him so he didn't have to look at the picture he had been asked to comment on? Excellent leadership qualities.
