An interesting article about some of the rhetoric around UK shortages. The quote that stands out for me: “I don’t accept that the UK’s reliance on unskilled, cheap labour is an unalloyed good”.

Brexit hasn’t provoked the basic discussions about the nature of the country’s economy in the way it should have.

The rhetoric around training and paying better has truth to it but there are a number of jobs that simply don’t require a lot training and really the question is about whether the true costs of labour can be passed back into the wider economy. Part of the Brexit dream was forcing the capital investment into automation required to remove the need for labour but its going to take longer than six months to come up with caravans of self-driving lorries.