The Sun launches campaign to help recruit thousands of HGV drivers to fix delivery crisis which has left shelves empty
Steer we go
BRITAIN can fix the delivery crisis which has left shelves empty, pubs dry and McDonald’s — to the dismay of millions — without milkshakes.
And The Sun intends to help.
First, though, let us concede that Brexit and a lack of EU drivers IS among various factors responsible.
Covid chaos is another.
So is an exodus of veteran truckers from the job.
And the idea put about by opportunist Remainers that everything was OK before Brexit is self-serving nonsense.
Our economy was neither sustainable nor fair.
Goods remained plentiful and cheap for a comfortable middle-class (which fought tooth and nail to keep the status quo) only by suppressing the wages of others through inviting in an unlimited supply of EU migrants willing to work for peanuts.
Our new reality is branded a “Brexit disaster” by those who panic if Waitrose offers them less than three varieties of strawberry.
Others, paid too little for years, are now seeing their wages rising rapidly — truck drivers among them.
Brexit gives us the freedom to tighten and relax immigration rules.
In due course we may need more EU drivers.
But that must not be the first option.
We are launching a campaign to help recruit tens of thousands of HGV drivers.
We’ve joined forces with top firms to highlight vacancies and show you how to apply and train if need be.
Our Sun Jobs site will offer free listings for driver positions.
With pay on the up there should be no shortage of applicants.
Some will come off furlough shortly and need new work.
And HGV driving can be a great career.
We’ll give you the steer you need.
Bungler Biden
WE don’t buy that Britain’s “special relationship” with the US is over.
Nor that Boris Johnson is somehow to blame for not convincing Joe Biden to reconsider his reckless Afghanistan folly.
No other world leader could either.
Biden is far from the great statesman he was billed as.
He has sacrificed lives, human rights and a country’s hard-won freedom to win votes back home.
Our special relationship may have to wait for a wiser replacement.
The new Len
FOR a dismal decade the Unite union was run by Corbynite extremist Len McCluskey.
We, like the 40 per cent of its members who vote Tory, hoped for better.
Instead he has been replaced by Sharon Graham, the candidate of Momentum and the Socialist Workers.
We wish Keir Starmer luck selling Labour as a moderate party with yet another hard-left firebrand at the helm of its single biggest paymaster.
And we wish Ms Graham luck too . . . in fairly representing hundreds of thousands of members whose politics she despises.
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