Re: What a surprise
We are the only people with critical shortages, it's not even just the UK, it's just Britain
Simply not true, on either count. The major part of the UK that isn't Britain is N. Ireland, and thanks to the NI protocol there are also some shortages there, even of goods that are freely available in GB. There are shortages across Europe, due to many factors including COVID. Just as the UK is complaining about the lack of cheap EU labour to exploit for manual work, so is France (lack of grape pickers), Germany and Spain.
We have no shortages on the shelves, no queues at our ports
Not due to of Brexit, though. Fundamentally it's down to a shortage of haulage drivers Europe-wide. According to the International Road Transport Organisation (IRU), in 2019 24% of driver positions were unfilled in the U.K., 22% were unfilled in Poland, 21% In the Czech Republic, 20% in Spain. I've shopped in UK & French supermarkets recently, both have gaps on the shelves with apologetic notices about "supply problems". The queues of shipping at Felixstowe are because the port is overfull of containers which aren't being removed by lorry, they have over 1000 unused daily slots for haulage collection due to the driver shortage. There are similar queues at ports in California, due in part to COVID-related delays working through.
The unicorn stables are full and there's no british unemployment any more...
You seem better-informed on unicorns than I am, but the number of people in employment in the UK is at an all-time high, and unemployment as a %age is well below EU levels, as it always has been.
You can claim that project reality was fear mongering, but you might want to look at what is actually happening.
It was fear mongering, and the facts bear that out.
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