Brexit

Ha

That article you posted about is the recovery from covid not Brexit.  

www.cbi.org.uk/articles/sector-focus-manufacturing-sector-july-2021/





“Record growth in manufacturing output volumes is further evidence that UK industry is reawakening following the economic ravages of the pandemic. Demand is rising rapidly, leading businesses to hire more staff and plan further investment in plant & machinery and training. Encouragingly, manufacturers expect further record output growth in the coming quarter.

“Yet other challenges lie ahead. Acute staff shortages evident across the economy are biting deeply within manufacturing, with skills in short supply and the number of people isolating climbing steeply.




Output dropped dramatically due to covid and businesses closing down, staff on furlough. Once they opened again the rate of growth must have shot up dramatically from next to fuck all to getting back towards where it was.
I was talking to the watersports shop owner and he said all the imported stuff has been hit by covid, not many new windsurf boards coming in.
Canoes are made in England, like Pyranha Canoes in Runcorn, but they dont have the raw materials to make canoes as those are imported. So he cant get any canoes either.
Hopefully things will get back to normal, but its not just the UK which has to gets it's production back to 100% or better of what it was its other countries. 
The article also mentioned the rise in costs. Because not much was shipped out from the Far East, the demand for shipping has gone up, and also the price. Nothing to do with Brexit, its Covid.



  

It’s the forecast for training home grown skills that is the biggest factor! Home grown means money staying in the UK and not being sent abroad to keep up families living in Romania for example, with top up benefits being exported to.

This is not down to Covid, this down to having to face the reality that we need to get people off of their arses or courses that lead to a degree in ‘Harry fucking potter’ or ‘Sports fucking psychology ‘ and teach real skills to those that are willing and also those cunts that are not willing.

That could have been done while we were still in the EU. It wasnt the unelected-bureaucratic-EU-Brussels-4th Reich-French forcing our hand with our university courses, what our youngsters chose to study, what job ambitions they have. It is all up to us. 
If Romanians do the lower paid jobs the UK wont do, then put the wages up, (higher end cost for us consumers), fill those jobs with UK people then there wont be an opportunity for anyone else.
Benefits changed under Cameron in 2016 so that Romanians could only claim what they would have received in Romania. But lets not go into circular arguments again. 

Back to that article you claimed was about Brexit but was about Covid consequences.  
www.cbi.org.uk/articles/sector-focus-manufacturing-sector-july-2021/
The share of firms citing orders or sales as a factor to limit output next quarter fell to its lowest since 1974 (42%). However, the proportion of firms citing materials/components (56%), skilled labour (36%) or plant capacity (31%) as limiting factors stood at its highest since January 1975, July 1974, and January 1974, respectively.  

So the previous highest peak of skilled labour shortage was pre-EU membership, and now has returned to its highest peak since then, post EU membership with Brexit. I see, I see.   
Nah, thats because of Covid as well, combined with Brexit as people have returned to the EU and stayed put. 

I've always thought it would take 10 years or so to see if we have gained or lost. We do need to train up people with proper skills rather than wishy washy nonsense, but that will take time. 

Thanks Neil. And thanks for taking the time to consider your post.