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Yes because 150% wage inflation virtually overnight is healthy and sustainable in any sector🤡

I know you're of the "I'm alright Jack" persuasion, but I don't think you've really thought this one through have you?

Market supply & demand, especially when all the cheap labour has gone home. ;)

Remember when all the hod carriers & brickies were making massive money?

It happens in many employment sectors.

So would you rather pay a little more for your "smashed avocado on toasted six grain kibbled sour-dough" knowing the driver was getting a decent wage? :coffee: 🥑
 
Market supply & demand, especially when all the cheap labour has gone home. ;)

Remember when all the hod carriers & brickies were making massive money?

It happens in many employment sectors.

So would you rather pay a little more for your "smashed avocado on toasted six grain kibbled sour-dough" knowing the driver was getting a decent wage? :coffee: 🥑
What on earth are you prattling on about? I'd lay off the English wine for a while if I were you, it's clearly sending you a bit doolally :ROFLMAO:

Yes they (the brickies) hyper inflated the market and then priced themselves out of it....and there was an awful lot of shite quality workmanship and bone idle "workers" who thought they were untouchable as a result (there were some truly appalling quality houses thrown up in the 80's and 90's in particular by said "untouchables"). That is until new workers with more reasonable wage demands and a better work ethic were allowed to work here......and there was a net benefit to the economy as a result (who'dve thunk it?)

Paying too much for a trade is just as obscene as paying too little. This hyper inflation is not being created by increased demand for haulage, it's being driven by a 60k plus HGV driver shortage, caused by Covid and Brexit combined. I find it highly amusing that anyone tries to argue this is all part of a normal economic pattern - that's next level short-sightedness.

PS - Cornish farmers advertising on social meja for locals to go and help them (by volunteering) pick their broccoli & cauli crop, because they can't secure the labour to get it picked before it rots in the field.

All with the incentive that the majority will go to local food banks and help feed those that can't afford to.

Socialism and philanthropy in action:ROFLMAO: (I appreciate those two words will be like salt to a slug to you;))

And yet your boy Bridgen is trying to lay it at the door of Blair's government. It's as priceless as it is desperate 🤡
 
Imagine complaining because wages in a historically underpaid, working class sector are being pushed upwards.
Steady wage increase/paying a reasonable living wage = good

Unsustainable hyper-inflation of wages by 150% in a matter of weeks = bad

It's not that hard to understand is it?
 
Steady wage increase/paying a reasonable living wage = good

Unsustainable hyper-inflation of wages by 150% in a matter of weeks = bad

It's not that hard to understand is it?
And you think HGV drivers were underpaid before.....really?

And what about the chronic staff shortages in the hospitality industry - which way do you think that will end up going? High wage demands with higher costs passed on to the consumer, or more businesses jacking it in as unsustainable.

Whichever way you look at it, wage inflation on such a scale is not a good thing!
 
I'm of the view that, in general, mass-market food is too cheap. Look at the obesity pandemic...

Which ultimately means somebody in the supply chain is getting a rough deal, be it the coffee farmer in Brazil or Trucker Dave who delivers the produce to the shop itself.

I'm happy and (perhaps more importantly) able to pay slightly more. My concern is that millions can not and there will be howls of discontent when people receive this unexpected Brexit dividend!
 
Steady wage increase/paying a reasonable living wage = good

Unsustainable hyper-inflation of wages by 150% in a matter of weeks = bad

It's not that hard to understand is it?
We're all about to get absolutely battered by hyperinflation. Just be grateful for the fact that at least a few of our underpaid working class will feel some limited benefit from it before this decade of misery and despair kicks in.
 
We're all about to get absolutely battered by hyperinflation. Just be grateful for the fact that at least a few of our underpaid working class will feel some limited benefit from it before this decade of misery and despair kicks in.

Oh man.

I can't believe with that pessimism you weren't fighting in the remain corner. Our loss.
 
We're all about to get absolutely battered by hyperinflation. Just be grateful for the fact that at least a few of our underpaid working class will feel some limited benefit from it before this decade of misery and despair kicks in.
Bright new Brexit future, shurely?
 
I'm of the view that, in general, mass-market food is too cheap. Look at the obesity pandemic...

Which ultimately means somebody in the supply chain is getting a rough deal, be it the coffee farmer in Brazil or Trucker Dave who delivers the produce to the shop itself.

I'm happy and (perhaps more importantly) able to pay slightly more. My concern is that millions can not and there will be howls of discontent when people receive this unexpected Brexit dividend!

The world is overpopulated.

Food in the developed nations is too cheap.

Simple fix - an "air mile tax" on imported food, the further it travels the more it`s taxed.

If people don`t change what they eat they pay more. :)
 
The world is overpopulated.

Food in the developed nations is too cheap.

Simple fix - an "air mile tax" on imported food, the further it travels the more it`s taxed.

If people don`t change what they eat they pay more. :)
And still we can't get people to pick the stuff in fields on our collective doorsteps.....

It's a noble, if fundamentally flawed plan mainly due to the short sighted fanaticism of your political heros :)
 
The world is overpopulated.

Food in the developed nations is too cheap.

Simple fix - an "air mile tax" on imported food, the further it travels the more it`s taxed.

If people don`t change what they eat they pay more. :)

Makes perfect sense. So we should focus less on trade deals with Australia and America, and look to countries closer to us to do the bulk of our trade with.
 
Oh man.

I can't believe with that pessimism you weren't fighting in the remain corner. Our loss.
You might have missed it but we've just printed more money than at any point in history. The pessimism is pandemic related.
 
Little by little the government is rowing back on Brexit because it knows that even people who voted for it are starting to realise they were conned . We'll be back in the EU before we know it (without it being acknowledged by the government). 😉

 
Little by little the government is rowing back on Brexit because it knows that even people who voted for it are starting to realise they were conned . We'll be back in the EU before we know it (without it being acknowledged by the government). 😉

So...only Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta and Romania to go and they've got the full set :ROFLMAO:

If only there were an over-arching body of some sort that DCMS could've negotiated a deal with:unsure:

Got to love a bit of BRINO;)
 
Any moment now, the usual Brexit apologists will declare that time and energy spent getting back to 90% of the previous status quo will somehow qualify as a success..!
 
Makes perfect sense. So we should focus less on trade deals with Australia and America, and look to countries closer to us to do the bulk of our trade with.

My "air miles tax" would have less impact on salad, produced by slave labour migrant workers living in hovels in Spain, than food products shipped from Aus or the US so must be a good thing yes? ;)

That aside..............

The UK imports around 20.9 million tons of food & drink per year.
The UK wastes around 9.5 million tons of food & drink per year.

There is certainly room for improvement, to the tune of 10 million tons, and we have a pending diabetes & obesity crisis.....
 
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