> It turns out making your economy dependent on migrant workers then shutting them out with no preparation is bad policy. What's been even worse policy is to h

> It turns out making your economy dependent on migrant workers then shutting them out with no preparation is bad policy. What's been even worse policy is to have closed down so many train lines over the years, so now all of our roads are full of lorries 24/7. Thanks to the Beeching cuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts The solution is not to import cheap labour to drive trucks, but to rebuild our railways, and use them for freight (feel free to use cheap foreign labour in this case). Fortunately the current government has agreed upon such things as: https://www.theplanner.co.uk/news/northampton-rail-freight-nsip-approved https://www.theplanner.co.uk/news/northampton-rail-freight-n... HS2 is also still in the works (but scaled back).