Grumpy_old_trucker:
Just when you thought you’d heard the last of the B word someone decides to start another thread on the subject.
YAWN!
Thanks for your input. Very interesting.
JeffA:
Thanks for your input. Very interesting.
Wish I could say the same about your opening post!
Not even truck related and certainly not interesting.
JeffA:
Looks like it’s finally dawning on the pro-Brexit bosses they might have done a boo-boo. Tim Martin in the papers saying"The pro-Brexit boss of pub chain JD Wetherspoon has urged the government to increase migration from the EU to deal with a shortage of workers in the hospitality sector.
Tim Martin, who campaigned for a hard Brexit, including leaving the single market and the end of freedom of movement which came with it, urged Boris Johnson to consider a new, “reasonably liberal” visa scheme"Tim Martin - what a charming man.
Who gives a flying F!
Can’t have your cake and eat it[emoji6]
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Brexit like Covid is here to stay,live with it.
Is JD Wetherspoon some type of transport company?
Well if anyone does decide to go and work for him remember the time when he threw his workforce on the scrapheap and told them all to go get jobs in tesco etc…
Lovely chap.
Harry Monk:
Is JD Wetherspoon some type of transport company?
Nope , just a pub big pub chain
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toonsy:
Well if anyone does decide to go and work for him remember the time when he threw his workforce on the scrapheap and told them all to go get jobs in tesco etc…Lovely chap.
May be that why he can’t get staff [emoji848][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
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blue estate:
toonsy:
Well if anyone does decide to go and work for him remember the time when he threw his workforce on the scrapheap and told them all to go get jobs in tesco etc…Lovely chap.
May be that why he can’t get staff [emoji848][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
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I remember him saying he would “get wine from Australia instead of the EU” - turns out he cant even get a lorry full of coors beer from ten miles away.
Most of the crew i know have said they are not coming back .Tax problems they have been fiddling the books.Ir35 closed the loophole.
Even if they come back it will only be for a higher rate, as soon as the rates start dropping they will leave again. They arnt as daft as Timmy Mallet thinks.
toonsy:
Well if anyone does decide to go and work for him remember the time when he threw his workforce on the scrapheap and told them all to go get jobs in tesco etc…Lovely chap.
Except he didn’t do that. He said he would understand if staff jumped ship and left a company where there was NO work and went to work at Tesco instead (who were at the time desperate for workers) . He also said that when business was allowed to resume they’d be at the front of the queue if they wanted to come back. I don’t think any Wetherspoons employees lost their jobs (unlike a huge number of others working in the hospitality industry).
He may well be an odious bloke and some of his business practices appear well dodgy, but on this point I think you’ve been misled by certain sectors of the press.
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toonsy:
Well if anyone does decide to go and work for him remember the time when he threw his workforce on the scrapheap and told them all to go get jobs in tesco etc…Lovely chap.
Not actually true…
My youngest was working for Wetherspoons at the time and what was actually said was …
Tescos are busy, we are closed, you can go and work for Tescos as well as claiming furlough from Wetherspooons. We dont mind and your job willl still be there when we reopen…
That was a shortened down version of the letter he received.
Of course the newspapers got hold of the story and twisted it to their agenda…
Corrrections and apologies were later given in the media to Tim Martin
toonsy:
Well if anyone does decide to go and work for him remember the time when he threw his workforce on the scrapheap
So no different than Tesco did with their own drivers…
Oh wait Wetherspoons didn’t throw their workers on the scrapheap like Tesco did with their drivers, Wetherspoons told them they were free to go work for Tesco whilst they were furloughed to earn some more money to live on in addition to what they were already getting on furlough, something which a lot of employers wouldn’t let their employees do.
JeffA:
I remember him saying he would “get wine from Australia instead of the EU” - turns out he cant even get a lorry full of coors beer from ten miles away.
Does he run his own lorries collecting from the brewery or is it the brewery failing to deliver to a customer? I think you’ll find it’s the latter.
Brexit is over, we’re out, it’s done. Move on FFS. All you’re doing is make yourself look like an idiot by posting loads of rubbish which is completely wrong. It’s quite funny watching how many of the supposedly more intelligent remainers spout complete and utter bollox.
Conor:
JeffA:
I remember him saying he would “get wine from Australia instead of the EU” - turns out he cant even get a lorry full of coors beer from ten miles away.Does he run his own lorries collecting from the brewery or is it the brewery failing to deliver to a customer? I think you’ll find it’s the latter.
Brexit is over, we’re out, it’s done. Move on FFS. All you’re doing is make yourself look like an idiot by posting loads of rubbish which is completely wrong. It’s quite funny watching how many of the supposedly more intelligent remainers spout complete and utter bollox.
Its actually quite sad. Like watching a man who is laying on his death bed with lung cancer wanting a last drag on a cigarette!
Conor:
toonsy:
Well if anyone does decide to go and work for him remember the time when he threw his workforce on the scrapheapSo no different than Tesco did with their own drivers…
Oh wait Wetherspoons didn’t throw their workers on the scrapheap like Tesco did with their drivers, Wetherspoons told them they were free to go work for Tesco whilst they were furloughed to earn some more money to live on in addition to what they were already getting on furlough, something which a lot of employers wouldn’t let their employees do.
That doesn’t make sense. Were you allowed to work for another company while you were furloughed at another? I thought the idea was the government paid your wages to avoid people mixing together - not so you could go work somewhere else and doubles yo’ money.
Conor:
JeffA:
I remember him saying he would “get wine from Australia instead of the EU” - turns out he cant even get a lorry full of coors beer from ten miles away.Does he run his own lorries collecting from the brewery or is it the brewery failing to deliver to a customer? I think you’ll find it’s the latter.
Brexit is over, we’re out, it’s done. Move on FFS. All you’re doing is make yourself look like an idiot by posting loads of rubbish which is completely wrong. It’s quite funny watching how many of the supposedly more intelligent remainers spout complete and utter bollox.
Why on earth would I “feel like an idiot”? It’s just a point that’s been raised in other threads that I’ve noticed. And if someone has a different opinion I don’t consider them an idiot - I consider them as having a different opinion. Fine by me. In fact I encourage everyone to form their own opinion.
JeffA:
Tim Martin, who campaigned for a hard Brexit, including leaving the single market and the end of freedom of movement which came with it, urged Boris Johnson to consider a new, “reasonably liberal” visa scheme"
Do you understand the difference between controlled migration and uncontrolled migration? Or understand what a visa is?
Harry Monk:
JeffA:
Tim Martin, who campaigned for a hard Brexit, including leaving the single market and the end of freedom of movement which came with it, urged Boris Johnson to consider a new, “reasonably liberal” visa scheme"Do you understand the difference between controlled migration and uncontrolled migration? Or understand what a visa is?
Yes, I think so, Is one uncontrolled and one controlled?
Do I get a goblin teasmaid?