[Just thinking]

We did this by getting a government that lied to the Queen and prorogued parliament illegally.

It's starting to sound like a conspiracy theory fancy a government doing that. Was this from leaked inside information?

[alancalverd]

Leaked inside information? No, from every newspaper and Hansard.

The Road Haulage Association says it's nothing to do with Brexit. Many foreign drivers went home early in 2020 to avoid being locked down in the UK or quarantined in their home country, and the HGV schools and test stations were closed because you don't want instructors and examiners sharing a cab with students (the same applied to cars and aeroplanes but had far less impact on third parties). There was already a shortage of about 30,000 HGV drivers and a general loss rate of some 25,000 per year  who retire or decide to drive something  smaller (huge increase in home deliveries). So by the middle of 2021 there was a shortfall of about 20%, almost entirely due to Covid, and as there had always been a scarcity, the remainder were already working their maximum permitted hours, which made recruitment  difficult: even if you did manage to qualify, your first job would be a 15 hour day with no mate.

That said, HM Government has certainly screwed things up even more by sheer incompetence and arrogance, but what did you expect? Had Labour won the general election, what would People's Life President Comrade Corbyn have done? (answer - made friends with any loathsome extremists he could find).   

[Just thinking]

They say in about a month from now Australia will start to return to normal what ever normal is I will have to see it to believe it. I think the damage is done more people will jump off the bridge than have passed from covid.