The majority of Europeans do not work on lorries or in supermarkets. EU citizens in the UK earn significantly more than locals and are significantly better educated. The real problem here is not lack of undereducated supermarket clerks (we can easily replace them with locals), the real problem is that software developers and lawyers and doctors and accountants and whatnot won’t cross the Channel anymore. Special visas may work for seasonal workers and cleaners, but I wouldn’t move to the UK with a 1-year visa to earn just 70K£ pa (which is more than twice the average salary of a local).
I would stop spreading the fake news of Europeans being the servants of the Britons.
There's both I guess. There are whole industries dominated by immigrants, too. And guess what, they are the ones now experiencing severe staff shortages.
Since labour frictions tend to be absolute, not proportional to e.g. salaries, they are always going to be less acute in better-paid, higher-profile jobs. It doesn't mean they are any less grating to the people who experience them.
The lack of lorry drivers is more likely to be caused by the changes to IR35. Lorry drivers would set up companies to use a tax loophole and not pay NI and income tax. Now they can’t, take home pay went down and drivers are harder to find.
I would stop spreading the fake news of Europeans being the servants of the Britons.
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