Except it is merely a rehashing of hundreds of other such pieces. And before Brexit it was a Tory Government or the 2008 crash or any and everything else.

Should this lady be able to get on a bus with her kid and not expect to be verbally abused? Absolutely. Civility above all else.

But the notion that this opinion piece adds anything 'valuable' to the subject is ludicrous. It is a sound bite backed up with no actual hard evidence.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Agreed but how else do you make business's invest in technology and training we are way behind other countries productivity as Labour like to point out. They have known this is coming for a while now and it will still be another year before it comes into affect so plenty of time to get their house in order.

One more point

So you agree or you don't agree that a phased process is better?

I have no idea where all these British workers are going to appear from. Happy to be proved wrong, but can't see it creating anything other than serious financial harm to a lot of businesses.

There is also the very real prospect of product price increases as a result of either lack of available workforce, or more expensive workforce. Fine for me, I can afford it.

That said, what I suspect will happen is less UK goods and more imports as a result when companies realise they either can't balance the books, or make their business economically viable with a significantly more expensive British workforce. Irony. Gotta love it

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

You go ahead with the new restrictions but yes in some cases if the evidence is there it maybe that short term we need to loosen them for certain sectors.

However if you start that way certain business' will never adapt so I would not change anything for probably a year after the new regulations unless compelling data showed it was damaging the economy.

The people complaining the most are the companies that use cheap labour for coffee and takeaways etc. They need to prove that they have exhausted other options like putting up their salaries and training local people before I would be happy letting them off the hook.

It needs to be a flexible policy so maybe you are correct that it should be phased in but we need to see the evidence first that it is not working rather than the "Mega Expensive Coffee" company who doesn't pay UK tax complaining that it can't get enough slave labour.

One more point

Oh contrare

The issue is simply that British workers aren't interested. One cafe chain has recently come out and said around 1 in 50 applicants are British.

That's an issue.

It's also not slave labour for those companies – they legally have to pay minimum wage.

There are of course farms and food produce employers who are shirking the system and literally treating people like slaves, but they are not the majority – so again, workers will be on minimum wage. Maybe not full time, zero hours or part time probably but still when working, paid minimum wage.

The truth is there simply isn't the appetite to fill the roles.

People need to wake up and realise that we are no longer a labour based / manufacturing economy. We've been transitioning towards a service economy for decades.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.