Workforce Crisis Rocking UK Economy

I think people work all the hours that God sends for wages that leave next to nothing after the bills are paid .Minimal/no time is left for family and leisure pursuits and the retirement age just keeps shifting base every five minutes .It's no wonder that people are having break downs and/or are reluctant to get out of bed in the mornings.

Covid played a big part - many services that shut down had real problems getting staff back when they opened up again. Many bus drivers left and started working with supermarket deliveries etc and just never went back to what is a stressfull job at times. I know people in other jobs who decided they enjoyed the break not working during covid and decided not to go back at all.

Yes. My job is low paid. I'm a ta and on £18,000 a year. My colleagues say without tas they wouldn't be able to do their job. Yest we are paid peanuts. My job isn't just washing paint pots and reading. I've taken on the readers for my class because it was easier to manage. I am class ta and 1:1. So j have to support the class with work and needs, and be there for a child at all times. I'm to care for children throwing up, hurt or toilet accidents. I have to help break up fights, put up with being sworn at, hit, kicked bitten. I get stuff thrown at me from pens, shies chairs and tables. I pretty much go home and go to bed after work because I'm mentally broken everyday.

When people say I should do stuff for myself snd exercise its hilarious as my job is so stressful I literally can't.

I love my job its just hard

Brexit has made importing staff more difficult for sure from the EU but importing staff is also hugely damaging to the economy if you import people who have their financial base in another country so they export huge amounts of money out of the country which basically adds to our trade deficit and borrowing. One third of a NHS doctors were born abroad and many again have their financial base abroad. We still have high immigration but the benefit of the EU was it was nearby so you could get in casual workers just for the picking season. Even before joining the EU we were importing staff many from other areas of the old Empire. In the past Germany imported people from places like Turkey and they didn't get a so called minimum wage they could be paid way below the average wage of Germans and they used this cheap labour in their factories to lower their costs. I'm not sure that is still true. Ultimately we need to set rules that benefit the UK economy. We are struggling with huge debts of which there is about £150k for every single person in the UK from baby to person on their death bed. Most of this you can link to two factors membership of the EU and the huge rise of China as a manufacturing nation making factories in the US and Europe unviable today.

A huge amount of people are capable of work that simply isn't available like factory work. Working on a farm needs a high level of fitness so especially suited to younger people. I was in hospital with covid and there was a young man there of about 28 I think and he looked more like 38 and he worked on a farm with very long hours and real physical work. He had some sort of heart issue. It didn't sound an easy job for anyone when he described his day.

In China even highly educated people are forced to work on farms if there is no other work available.

Ultimately we need to come up with policies which work for the UK economy, it requires a lot of thought but I would say its a high priority to do so however again when you look at the UK government they seem to focus on trivia so much of the time, minor issues that should be a low priority.