Brexit Jokes (1)

@ArtieKat The UK government and its supporters point the fingers, not surprisingly, but unconvincingly, away from themselves and Brexit.
They point out to other, and in particular the EU and even Germany as having the same problems.
Germany may well have a shortage, but it also has resources. There are 1.5m drivers working in Germany. A shortage of absolute numbers anywhere near that in UK, is of course much less felt (shortage of even 100k having 1.5m is not the same as shortage of 100k when you only have 236k).
Covid of course affected recruitment, but this is not unique to the UK. What is unique to the UK now is that you have to draw on resources and solve problems on your own, rather than as part of the richest bloc on earth.

@helenS I don't disagree - I still think we were right to leave the EU, and once the world learns how to live with Covid will be the right time to make judgements. For the time being there are too many variables

@ArtieKat Yes - let's be patient.
But let's also have some fun in the meantime... 😏

@helenS https://www.ft.com/content/9341256e-1331-4480-974a-7badfb5f6607

The carrot & the stick in Germany to get above 65% of the population vaccinated. Is that a funny enough statistic, Helen?

@ArtieKat I will never understand why 1/3 of the population are still not vaccinated in Germany. I don't get it. It's not because of a vaccine shortage. There seem to be many "anti-vaxxers” who believe that vaccinations are a “human rights violation" or something. 😐

@helenS If it's any consolation the same sort of thing happened when (smallpox?) vaccines were first around in the 19th century. 'Leave it to Divine Providence' etc, etc. Trouble was, 'divine providence' was having a kip at the time and a few thousand more people died.