EACH SOLUTION TO BREXIT MESS CREATES A PROBLEM

JEREMY Corbyn asked Theresa May what Britain’s future might hold in the absence of a serious, sensible deal with the European Union.

Mrs May responded: “What we have seen is businesses showing confidence in our economy. Bernard Matthews has won major new contracts with supermarkets, underpinning 600 new jobs.”

This was, of course, before Boris Johnson’s “cakeist” deal.

Fast forward to August 2021: The poultry industry employs more than 40,000 people but there are almost 7,000 vacancies with predictions that the poultry shortages we are seeing at the moment are set to get worse.

Because of the end of freedom of movement, EU migrant workers must earn at least £20,480 in order to be allowed in.

So, how are we going to fill the job vacancies that the confidence in our economy has created?

We could give EU migrant workers a big pay increase that would allow them to work here but would also increase the cost of what they produce, so I can’t see that happening.

We could reduce the amount that EU migrant workers must earn, but then we’d have them all coming over here stealing our jobs wouldn’t we? Each “solution” to a problem always seems to produce another problem.

This may not be the Brexit that leavers voted for but it’s certainly the Brexit that remainers fought to stop.

Sue Quinlan