No easy solutions

To complex problems.

Never was, never will be. But the snake oil salesmen made believe there was, and many believed them.

My old Dad used to say if it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.

Being a member state wasn't perfect. The EU itself isn't perfect, it's a work in progress, but being a member of it, is better than not being a member, especially when you sit just 23 miles off the coast of it, and it is by some margin, your largest trading partner.

A complex problem to be fixed by leaving the EU, with little interest of the knock on effect this would have.

As we have seen this week, fertilser production helps make CO2 helps meat processing helps fizzy drinks. And the shortage of drivers mean there isn't enough of them to move goods around and then there isn't enough tanker drivers to move fuel around so no one can drive in a few days.

The supply chains were always going to crash at some point; food rotting in the fields, warehouses full, shelves in supermarkets empty, no fuel at the pumps and a Government in denial.

Thing is, a Government should have known this was going to happen, and plan accordingly. If a business had planned and acted this badly, it would be going out of business very quickly. In project management, you identify risks and opportunities and mitigate them. If not, you have to explain yourself to the project manager or director.

In the case of Brexit, that is Johnson, and he is even worse than the people he tasked with delivering Brexit.

It was aways going to be beyond them, but put COVID on top of that, and a Biden presidency, and they really don't have a clue what to do.

Apparently there is a Cabinet meeting today to sort it out, but it is divided whether to grant short term visas for drivers or not. That they are talking about it shows how badly things are going, and those fault lines will grow wider.

As previously stated, there is a fininite pool of labour in the UK, or Britain, take labour for one part to fill vacancies in another, you just create a crisis somewhere else, and so we have jobs crisis pass the parcel, and blame pass the parcel, as the BBC and newspapers try to explain it all without using the Brexit word.

Thing is, most of it isn't down to Brexit, not totally, but Brexit hasn't helped any of it. IN most cases made it far, far worse.

How bad is it?

Well, panic buying of fuel began this morning after the Government announced the public shouldn't panic buy fuel. And a lorry driver tweeted there was no HGV fuel between London and Dover on the A2/M2 route. Even with visas, tempoary or permenent, EU drivers won't want to come and work here.

No other European country has shortages the way the UK has, and European newspapers are reporting on it with horror, how such a pragmatic country can do this to itself in a little over five years. Solutions will be difficult, but the first step will have to be in admitting on how we got here. And millionaire authour and Transport Secretary told the media this morning it wasn't Brexit. So, the Governement will try to fix the wrong problem.