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"However, the German government is understood to have not yet written to British people living there, asking them to consider driving an HGV when they have neve
by iamtedd 5y ago
"However, the German government is understood to have not yet written to British people living there, asking them to consider driving an HGV when they have never done so before."
What an irrelevant statement. Unless Germany is also experiencing a driver shortage.
- detaro 5y agoGiven the UK government has claimed there are "very large and even larger shortages in other EU countries like Poland and Germany", evidence for or against that (e.g. if governments feel the need for such measures) are probably relevant to public discussion in the UK about this ;)
- orwin 5y agoTo be fair, they are right, mainland europe do have a driver shortage. A friend of mine is the commercial of a company selling security detail services from Ukrainian ex-militia/military, and they started offering driver services, because the demand augmented that much in mainland europe (mainly east of germany, as they are the trips that pay the less).
- jussij 5y agoThe difference is the UK government is being disingenuous, if not outright deceitful. There may well be driver shortages in Europe, but it doesn't compare to the 'critical driver shortages' facing the UK. And it is clear these shortages are 'critical', only because in the UK some supermarket shelves are empty and the supply of petrol is under heavy stress.
- kehrin 5y agoThat is clearly in reference to the two previous paragraphs. "Chief secretary to the Treasury, Simon Clarke, told the BBC’s Today programme yesterday. 'The difficulties we are facing are not unique to this country.'"