@antoniawhite
I really don’t like Corbyn at all, but it’s pretty mindblowing to me that anyone could think that voting for a man who’d already been sacked twice for lying, and had a pretty murky history of offensive, racist remarks, and who’d already said ‘Fuck business’ was better than voting for Corbyn.
So you don't like racism but you would vote for Corbyn? How odd.
Btw Corbyn, unlike Boris Johnson, has been a Brexiter for decades. He never wanted us in the EC/EEC/EU in the first place.
I know several EU workers who've now left the UK (not HGV drivers). All have visas to stay if they want. They don't. Standards of living in the UK are down. As are wages. But house prices are up. We have the smallest house sizes in Europe. Then there's Covid. We are a high risk country. The sick man and woman of Europe. Not an attractive option for a prospective employee.
One of the problems is successive governments focusing on short-termism. We could reverse the trend now. If we wanted to. Refugees and the Calais migrants. Many are fully capable of working. And they want to. Afterall no-one wants to be left to rot in homeless accommodation unemployed.
So train them up. The growing number of UK unemployed too. HGV drivers, and whatever other jobs are in shortage.
Some of the labour shortages are because of poverty wages. People simply can't afford to live on them. Particularly if they're in London, and to a lesser but still affected extent the rest of the south east.
There's a very serious public health housing and homelessness emergency going on, that is especially acute in London and the south east. Yet many refugees are being placed there.
Substandard overcroweded unaffordable temporary housing in these areas of high pollution is hardly conductive to recovery from trauma. Look outside of the south east for their placements and support, and support them with resettlement including the training for our shortage occupations.