I believe him
https://mobile.twitter.com/DankAckroyd/status/1408319998519660545
https://mobile.twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1408404237294374918
https://mobile.twitter.com/danbloom1/status/1408403788441006084
https://mobile.twitter.com/henrymance/status/1408388676288135171
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1408386009402904582
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1408430882294308867
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I like Brian Moore. Worked at the same place as him many years ago - a small private bank in the City, him in Corporate Finance and me in IT. Remember how bruised and beaten up he often looked on a Monday. Didn’t know him well but glad he’s one of the good guys.
Kathy Burke keeping things real
The country is facing a summer of food shortages likened to a series of “rolling power cuts” because of a loss of 100,000 lorry drivers due to Covid and Brexit, industry chiefs have warned.
In a letter to Boris Johnson they have called for an urgent intervention to allow eastern European drivers back into the country on special visas, similar to those issued to farm pickers, warning that there is a “crisis” in the supply chain.
They have said shortages of workers in warehouses and food processing centres are also having an impact with packing food for supermarket shelves.
Tesco bosses raised the issue at a meeting with the transport minister Lady Vere, last week warning that the vacancies were creating 48 tonnes of food waste each week, the equivalent of two truck loads.
Sources at the supermarket chain said the lorry driver shortage was affecting fresh food with short shelf life most.