so, when will you be starting stockpiling I wonder?

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

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

"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)

Be prepared

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

And the potholes!

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

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.

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

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.

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

You’d know more about that than me then Grandad

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.

Just talking to OH about this.
He does all the shopping, so I wouldn't know. But he says if you go into our local Waitrose at say 5 0/clock the salad stuff is nearly empty because it's all out in the cold room until the morning.
But I'm sure lots will say: ooh look, shortages

Have you built your bunker yet everyone?

Terri I have now located an ideal table for crouching under for when the whistle blows, utility furniture from the early 1940’s just the right size for two people and a cat.

Yes, my local Sainsbury has had freezer problems, but seem fine now.

"Is there a problem", according to many then yes.

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

Another example of a picture being “worth a thousand words” - but nobody specified which words.
Personally I have not been aware of any shortages ! empty shelves or otherwise at my local Waitrose and my last Ocado order had no omissions or substitutions.
Is there a problem?

A spokes person from Morrisons has looked at the photos and they were taken when the store was being refitted.
Sainsbury had problems with the fridge/freezers because of the extreme weather.

FarNorth with every respect, but i believe if you look back through the last three or four pages of this thread you will see my views and the views of others on this problem.