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The rest of Europe has mostly projected driver shortages, and no acute shortages of drivers, let alone goods.

So yes, while there is a wider issue, the wider issue is not the current problem or the high-order bit.

Note also that UGKOV plans to address the driver shortage by offering to ease restrictions on non UK-based (i.e. EU) drivers.

So yes, this is totally due to Brexit.

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...the same non-UK-based drivers that it proposes to kick out of the country again on December 24th. And the same drivers that last year on December 24th it corralled onto a disused airport runway behind fences and locked the doors so they couldn't go anywhere while being kicked out of the country.

Hard to imagine why they might not be jumping at the chance to spend another Xmas with no access to sanitation or even food in a place that is run by people who abuse them publicly every day

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