Leave or Remain?

Mudgie

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And, of course, a penny weighed considerable more than a pennyweight.
That depends how far back you can remember.
I think the silver pennies of several hundred years ago, roughly the size and weight of the silver threepenny bits we all knew up to eighty years ago, were about a pennyweight.
 

Withnail

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240 pennies made one pound in weight of silver.

If you wanted to keep all of your limbs.

If, addendum, one wanted to get Medieval on thine asses.
 

Withnail

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That's with the whole LSD twelve to this, twenty to that, horse manure of what is loosely referred to as 'THE GOOD OLD DAYS'.

All caps.
 

Withnail

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cj1

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UK generally has higher wages then serveral EU nations so we would just make there shortage worse. The UK industry needs to improve pay and working conditions to fill these roles where your expected to work long unsociable hours in poor conditions after paying 2k+ for the privilege to gain the qualifications needed. For just over 20k a year. You can earn up to 45k a year if your transporting dangerous goods which the majority don't.
 

Lucy

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Problem with that of course is food prices will to up, and those that are most in need get shafted again.
 

cj1

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the issue is they stopped testing and by extension issuing driving licences due to covid. people still kept leaving without having anybody to replace them. this has now been rectified by allowing testing to take place and allowing more people to take a test but it's going to take several months to balance out. but you still require pay and conditions at a level to attract and retain drivers.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Just saw this on fb:


Dear EU HGV drivers,

Yes you, the bloody foreigners with funny accents and weird food.

I know we said, “you were too lazy to work and were stealing our jobs”, but we're sorry.

We have this great deal to offer you.

If you help bail us out of this shit show we created for ourselves, you can have a TEMPORARY VISA for FREE.

I know it's crap pay, hours and working conditions, and shitty weather over here, but we've got the Premier League and Little Chef restaurants.

It's just until we get things sorted of course, and then you can bugger off back wherever you came from.

Sound like a good deal?

Go immediately to...

Gov.UK/gofuckyourselves/butnot justyetcusweneedyou/brexit/thegiftthatkeepsongiving
 

BobClay

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I wonder what other nasties are going to crawl out of the Brexit woodwork when the COVID cover is blown, or at least lessened in severity ...
 

EasMid

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Well at least we’ve got control of our borders & our own laws etc. We’ve now got a blue passport again again. We can stop all them bloody foreigners coming here taking all our jobs & getting all our council houses. Don’t get me started about them marrying all our women.
 
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