SIMPLE MATHS

Why is there surprise at the shortages in the labour market? Basic demographics in the UK have shown a falling birth rate for years. Certainly less than the birth rate of the baby boom 60 years ago. So more people are retiring than are coming into work force = labour shortage. This was offset formerly by the EU free movement of labour.

LABOUR HAS GOT IT WRONG!

Th Labour Party Conference has been manipulated into being a single track party all behind Starmer. This is wrong. Labour is a broad church which should be a coalition of the left. With discussion and debate the party could come up with policies that could be tolerated by all. Purging the party of Corbynites was and is wrong, as is total dismissal of Blair and the progress that was made in many areas.

ACTION

So the government finally decides that the Army truck drivers could be useful and start to be trained now, so by the weekend at the earliest and if needed. That’s decision making. Maybe a request to ask people not to make unessential journeys for a few days would have worked? Even a 2% reduction in usage would have helped if the situation is as ‘not serious’ and ‘no need to panic’ as the government tell us. The situation could also be used to encourage car sharing and reduce journeys for the environmental benefit. Also a good time to roll out investment in electric car chargers!

THIS POST INCLUDES SWEARING

Must be the teacher in me to say that because basically I do not give a f***. Asterixes are just for the first few lines – see I am a nice person really! But there are a number of things that need strong words (are they adverbs or adjectives, or whatever?).