| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Johnson quits | |
| Posted by: | Jeremy Parkinson | |
| Date/Time: | 14/06/23 09:21:00 |
| Most of the inflation we are currently experiencing is due to global factors particularly rising food and energy costs. However, this is masking other cost pressures that Brexit has baked into the system such as more red tape, lack of free access to certain markets, delivery delays, rising labour costs particularly in seasonal industries and falling domestic production. Cumulatively this will increase the price of nearly everything we buy and continue to do so when hopefully energy and food prices fall back. There isn't a global labour shortage. There clearly is an acute one in the UK particularly in hospitality, health care, social care and seasonal agriculture. Brexit has definitely compounded these problems severely. Although Johnson bears responsibility for Brexit, as has been pointed out on this forum before, he did accelerate significantly the granting of visas to foreign nationals particularly from India to replace the lost EU workforce. The problem is that the new system doesn't have the flexibility to deliver workers where they are needed in the same way that Freedom of Movement did. |