so, when will you be starting stockpiling I wonder?

I believe all anyone has to consider is whether any industry no matter how large can be short of near fifty thousand critical employees and still carry out the same productivity levels.

We all know that in an office when one or two people are missing the rest just somehow muddle through. However, when a heavy vehicle is standing in a distribution centre and there is not a driver for it those wheels will not go round.

Even "The Sun" is stating that therefore it must be true

You’d know more about that than me then Grandad

MawBroon, never would be seen dead reading "The Sun". I did a Google search on " UK LGV driver shortage" and The Sun report came out top of the search.

Being that rag is always extolling the virtues of Britain leaving the EU, them stating the damage the driver shortage could make on Brexit "prosperity" must be a serious matter.

I have enough yarn stockpiled to knit us all warm socks and woollie pullies for years.

Grandad1943
Of course the Sun is going to be at the top of the list on a google search, that's what they pay for.
On my search engine, the Sun didn't even appear on the first page.

And I thought all that they had to worry about was the tachographs.

And the potholes!

No lemongrove, most certainly articulated 44-tonne truck drivers do not have to worry about potholes. If they hit one normally all that happens is the pothole becomes somewhat larger.

You haven’t seen the size of the potholes round here.?

It was probably 44 tonne trucks bouncing into those potholes that got them to that size Lemongrove.

Quite possibly, although we don’t see many on the rural roads here.

Might be a small problem with getting all your locally grown food ready for sale, Elegran. Who's going to pick it?

news.sky.com/story/brexit-farmers-fear-more-crops-will-rot-in-fields-as-eu-workers-move-abroad-11453766

I'm definitely not stockpiling, now, my cupboards and freezer are full where am I going to put this weeks shopping!.

Of course the Sun is going to be at the top of the list on a google search, that's what they pay for

Only if it comes up as an advert. Otherwise it's there because of the number of views its website gets.

Be prepared

"Who's going to pick it?" All the unemployed people whose benefits the state will be unable to pay when the national tax income drops dramatically? I was predicted possibilities, not prescribing what should happen (full employment, full compensation for unemployment etc etc etc)

My courgettes are doing OK...anyone want to trade?

I have room for a goat and some chickens and a veg patch , will I be ok?

annie we may all be forced to become vegan as the land will be needed for quinoa and chickpeas ( I like both!) so maybe no room for chooks or goats!

Listening to a farmer on local radio this morning . He was complaining that the lack of rain means that there is a lack of grass for the livestock and they are having to substitute their feed. The interviewer suggested that a prolonged period of rain would solve the problem and the farmer said “ well no not really as we need it to stay dry for harvesting” I wonder what they do in countries like Spain, Italy etc. Where prolonged dry spells are the norm?

I wonder what they do in countries like Spain, Italy etc. Where prolonged dry spells are the norm?

I think they have adapted to it over possibly 100s of years of the same weather patterns. Our agricultural processes are geared to our quite different weather patterns. Exceptional weather causes problems.

I sound like Hyacinth Bouquet, i hsve room for a goat. ?

I don’t like chickpeas PECS.

Wonder where Ensure is made.

Gilly, this isn’t unkind just the truth, every year I hear farmers complaining about the weather , too wet, too dry, too heavy a frost, too mild a winter , bless them it’s part of their lives to complain about the weather.

I think you are probably right MazieD and this year has been exceptional with a prolonged harsh winter and a "real" summer (we rarely get one at all North) .

I don't think one year is enough to completely change farming practises but maybe if our weather pattern is changing year on year then farming will need to adapt. I was confused how the farmer on the radio thought he could have heavy prolonged rain to grow the grass together with a long dry spell to enable a good harvest.

I didn't say he was being unkind Annie I was just confused as to what it was he actually wanted?