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Presumably he'll put his prices up which will fuel inflation.

But when the Remain camp warned of labour shortages they were accused of scare-mongering. Now they're being criticised for not preparing for something that they were told would not happen.

Had to get up early this morning and was listening to Farming Today. They were speaking with pig farmer has about 3000 pigs. He would like send 300 of them for slaughter but can't because the meat processing company can't take them because most of their workers have gone back home to the EU. Overall he reckons that there are about 100000 pigs waiting for processing. He's running out of space and the only solution is to slaughter them on the farm. It's illegal for him to do it and he can't find a vet to do it. He must be imagining it because Boris said that there wasn't a problem in pig farming.

I'd have Mark Dennis in there. Surely would have played for England if he'd been a bit more controlled.

It's all going wonderfully.. https://newsthump.com/2021/09/24/brexit-going-really-well-actually-insists-government-with-no-fuel-energy-food-workers-border-control-or-trade-deals

I think that they should meet in the St Marys car park on Sunday and sort it out like men. Let us know what time and we can all be there to watch.

I see that they've wound up with zero viewers again. For 75 minutes on Saturday afternoon, BARB reports no viewers. Ok, it might not be actually zero viewers because the BARB figures are taken from 5800 monitoring boxes. But, relative to other news channels, they're not doing too well.

Do we get the stocks and a ducking stool to find witches?

That was the feeling that I got. The team got a decent reception at the final whistle. This West Ham team had scored 10 goals in 3 games and we restricted them to a handful of chances and got our first clean sheet in 8 months. If a team is struggling the first thing to do is to stop conceding. Yesterday showed that we can do that.

Just received this in an email. Going to be a busy day.

Her skin is probably a bit dark for the Daily Mail readership.

Trouble is that it's not going to fund social care. It'll be used to reduce the increasingly long NHS waiting times. Social care has to limp on for another 3 years and what will they do then? Can't see then taking money out of the NHS to give to social care so it'll probably be an increase in the levy, which is an increase in income tax by another name.

They spent £37 billion on test and trace and the Public Accounts Committee found that it made "no measurable difference to the course of the pandemic".

So what is he actually doing to solve the problem? If they're not going to relax the visa rules then where is the 100000 shortfall coming from especially, as you say, wages and conditions need to be much improved. I was surprised to learn that, if there is a hold up at the container port, trucks have to sit and wait, possibly for hours, with no facilities whatsoever. Drivers have to pee in a bottle. How much would it cost to put up a small toilet block?

So 25000 drivers returning to the EU had no effect?

Very true. A lot of the Taliban quietly slipped over the border into Pakistan who were happy to give them board and lodging. For some reason the Western powers never seemed to put any pressure on Pakistan to do anything about it.

A long, long time

Sad news for all of us who grew up in the 60's.

And to think that someone gets paid to write that bollox.

Mine and son's both arrived this morning.

Reminds me of Fabrice Fernandes

Maybe that would bring some sanity to wages.

To add a bit of perspective, the side that started today for Man City cost £380m and the subs that came on cost £300m. Am I the only one who thinks that the ESL would have been good for the 14 or so clubs that would have been left in the EPL?

Athletico's website (needs a VPN) https://www.athletic-club.eus/en/news/2021/08/07/live-southampton-fc-athletic-club

Yes, fine with VPN apart from Spanish commentaty.