[Youngian]

Form an orderly queue Senor Lorry Driver

[Boiler]

As has been pointed out elsewhere - twenty years ago you could come to the UK and earn three to four times what you'd earn in Poland doing the same job. Now it's maybe 20 to 30%. Why would you want to come here, knowing you'd hardly be welcomed?

I believe that getting troops to drive tankers isn't as straightforward as you'd think either.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Form an orderly queue Senor Lorry Driver

Remember that Raab, Hannan, Truss et al wanted to move us to being a deregulated, low-wage society. That's a great way of competing with high-wage economies when the workers have a choice of where to work.

They are so fucking stupid.

[Cyclist]

If the only way to attract forrins back is by financial incentives, and John Bull finds out Juan Toro is being paid more than him to do the same job...

[Andy McDandy]

AFAGUSLAE as ever.

[Boiler]

Reasons for the driver shortage, from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58696999

[Crabcakes]

I think Johnson will be out by early 2022, and most likely reluctantly because his ego will demand he cling on until he has something in the record books that isn't an absolute disaster. It's October this week. People are queueing for fuel, supermarket shelves are gappy, the army will be visibly on the streets doing deliveries before too long, energy prices are spiking just as people want to turn their heating back on, there's the NI rise, their efforts to fix things are much too little far too late, and there's the small matter of the next wave of a global pandemic that will need more restrictions that people think Johnson had said would never happen again coupled with what might be a whopper of a flu season given everyone has been indoors for 2 years. And people are starting to much more openly (and rightly, of course) blame Brexit for it, and blame those who led us down this route, while the govt.'s excuses look increasingly ridiculous even to supporters.

Plus Starmer has just cemented his authority over the labour party by easily winning key votes - something Momentum etc. will grumble about, but the more sensible heads (assuming there are a few) will also take note of.

This has the potential to derail the Tories for *years*. It's just appalling that it had to get quite so bad before things could get better.

[Crabcakes]

Project fear turns out to be things Johnson was fearing he'd eventually get the blame for

[Boiler]

33% blame the last Labour government?

[davidjay]

33% blame the last Labour government?

And we all know how.

[RedSparrows]

33% blame the last Labour government?

Why is that even a question on the poll?! What the actual fuck. It was OVER ELEVEN YEARS AGO YOU FUCKING CRETINS.

[Boiler]

33% blame the last Labour government?

Why is that even a question on the poll?! What the actual fuck. It was OVER ELEVEN YEARS AGO YOU FUCKING CRETINS.

And 42+ years on, we have people saying "Winter Of Discontent 2.0"...

[davidjay]

33% blame the last Labour government?

Why is that even a question on the poll?! What the actual fuck. It was OVER ELEVEN YEARS AGO YOU FUCKING CRETINS.

There's a couple of replies on the lines of Thatcher still gets blamed for stuff, which she does. Because she deliberately fucking caused it.

[Cyclist]

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[mattomac]

33% blame the last Labour government?

Why is that even a question on the poll?! What the actual fuck. It was OVER ELEVEN YEARS AGO YOU FUCKING CRETINS.

Otherwise they would have blame themselves and they can’t do that.

[mattomac]

This just fills you with confidence…

The days of the UK space industry idling on the launch pad are over - this government has the Right Stuff, and this strategy marks the start of the countdown
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58720879

When he says the right stuff he doesn’t mean the cocaine half the cabinet seem to be on?

[Andy McDandy]

Given this government's track record and association with the truth, I predict that the unmanned launch will take place on November 5th, will reach potentially hundreds of feet, and will be classified as a moon shot.

[Youngian]

Why would you launch a rocket at the Shetland’s latitude instead French Guiana for eg?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

To impress the gammon/Turnip Taliban.

You don't have to actually do it.

[Bones McCoy]

Why would you launch a rocket at the Shetland’s latitude instead French Guiana for eg?

There's a trajectory caled a Polar Orbit (or something similar, it's been a while), where a northerly launch side is advantageous (southerly sites are equally good).