Westminstenders: Put Your Faith In The Home Office

[pointythings]

Because there doesn't seem to be a new thread yet. I'm no RTB or any of you other experts, but these threads need to keep going.

Give me a couple weeks and I'll be able to post cat placemarks!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/18/uk-faces-chilled-food-shortage-over-summer-logistics-industry-warns

Tomasz Oryński
@TOrynski
A comment under a Polish article on British shortage of HGV drivers.

"Insane, I am in UK, came to search for driving job, I have no settled status or visa as my documents were not ready. I worked in the UK for some years before 2020, despite that I am being deported on Sunday".

@HarrietPierce

Tomasz Oryński *@TOrynski* A comment under a Polish article on British shortage of HGV drivers.

"Insane, I am in UK, came to search for driving job, I have no settled status or visa as my documents were not ready. I worked in the UK for some years before 2020, despite that I am being deported on Sunday".

Insane but keeps some v happy, though maybe if Waitrose run out of stock, that view may change.

Harriet the following letter to the editor seems apt here:

It would surely take a heart of stone not to laugh at Tim Martin’s plea to the government to introduce visas enabling more EU citizens to enter the UK to work (Number of EU citizens seeking work in UK falls 36% since Brexit, study shows, 17 June).

Tim ranked high among the snake-oil salesmen who flogged us Brexit, and I hope he has the grace to feel sheepish about his plea. Is it time for a quietly stated, ongoing “Brexit Watch” to be set up? By all means let it include the successes (prizes for spotting these, perhaps?) alongside the continual reminders of promises glibly given, implicitly believed, and never meant. We do need an antidote to the shrill and angry lie that “Brexit is done”. If only.

Peter Millen
Huddersfield

DrBlackbird Yes, it seems the odious Tim Martin has been hoisted by his own petard.

If only it was just his problem. Alas, we all get to be hoisted by the odious Tim's petard.

The British Meat Processors Association said this week that it was “heading for a brick wall” on labour shortages...

“The real crisis for food supplies starts now,” said Shane Brennan, the chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation...

Tamara Hill, an employment policy adviser at the British Retail Consortium, said: “Currently, there is very high demand for staff in warehousing and logistics, particularly HGV drivers and food processing centres...Many such roles were traditionally filled by skilled non-UK workers, Hill said.

Apologies. I seem to have fallen into a bit of cut and pasting myself

But you're not just C&Ping - you're including comments and commentary of your own

Yorkshire bylines already does a Davis Downside dossier. Note that the downside is greater than the upsides, when it should surely be the other way around.

187 to 12 Peregrina that's just ever so slightly lopsided 🤦🏻‍♀️

@DrBlackbird

187 to 12 Peregrina that's just ever so slightly lopsided 🤦🏻‍♀️

Ah, you see, that fulfils the "most oppressed and downbeat victims of shady elite traitors" part of the True BeLeaver doctrine.

But on the bright side No. 12 will be creating up to a massive 50 jobs !

I wonder what JRM thinks of this

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57534918

Pope Francis has put French statesman Robert Schuman, one of the founders of modern Europe, on the path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.

...

In other news, seeing GB News described as "Wetherspoons TV" might just be the epithet that kills it dead if it becomes extant.

And WTF is up with the DUP ?

Food shortages now inevitable. Thanks Brexshit.

But we don't need food. We can thrive on the nutritious freedom of being free from the ECJ!

Flag soup anyone?

[quote pointythings]But we don't need food. We can thrive on the nutritious freedom of being free from the ECJ!

I assume that we will all have to eat the tons of sausages which we can't export to NI, and the cheese that we can no longer export to the EU. Not exactly a balanced diet, but hey ho, that's the price we pay.

It seems that not everyone inclucing Bercow think that Labour is a lost cause.

Remember that his seat was Buckingham - true blue you might think but the seat did return Robert Maxwell as a Labour MP in 1964.

I was in the grocery store today around 1 pm. The fruit and veg section looked like a plague of locusts had descended. Word gets around fast?

Bercow must be hoping for a Keir Starmer Goody Bag, with a hummus butty and a peerage. Tbf, he deserves the Lords more than a lot of them there. And Johnson has been petty.

Talking of which, if Biden's in trouble with the Catholic bishops for his liberal(ish) views on abortion, why isn't Johnson? Have we got uber liberal Catholic bishops here?

I suppose the US bishops know that Biden is a genuine Catholic, and thery are more severe with the genuinely devout. Whereas with Johnson, unless he's seen the light on the road to Damsascus, is a Catholic in name only.

I see that the Bishops which oversee the Churches which Biden regularly attends are not likely to deny him Communion. For a genuinely committed Catholic, this is important.

Sausage and Cheese 'Bake' - with eggs and/or potatoes seems a pretty good feed to me, you can add healthy bits to go with it. On other days we can eat all that shellfish that's piling up because it can't be exported; oh! seems there's no great piles of rotting shellfish after all - nothing like a pandemic to keep the natives at home eating their native food. It might even make National Geographic.

Shortage of HGV Drivers? - I've always fancied that as a job but in the past few years the pay for the work has been underpaid, now it might be more realistically paid and worth the investment in training - I've still got 8 years to go until I can get my pension so driving a big truck seems one of the things I could still do.

Taking aim at public figures who are Catholic seems to me to be a big mistake when there are millions of Catholics on pews all across America who are personally opposed to abortion but who are not out campaigning for its end, voting for Democratic candidates despite funding by Planned Parenthood/NARAL, etc.

It also ignores the many Catholics who voted for Trump despite horrific immigration policies, environmental policies, healthcare policies, and complete disregard for human life when the pandemic hit.

The campaign strikes me as mischief making and actually a politically partisan effort on the part of Cardinal Raymond Burke. Burke is not a fan of the current Pope, and it's possible the Pope will just say 'duly noted' when the document comes before him.