Oven-ready Brexit

Are we there yet? 

Er... yes, the Tories thought the best thing to do was to put Northern Ireland in to both the EU Single Market and the Eu Customs Union. 

Otherwise, it will be a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic Of Ireland. 

Bad Friday agreement 

See above.....

Red tape, more not less 

The government are no nearer to achieving their target to hire 50,000 customs border agents. Assuming these new customs border agents are paid only £26,000 per year (which you can't live on these days!) then this will cost … wait for it! £18 billion per year, or approximately £350 million per week. 

Source: ONS

Where have I seen that before?  Never mind. I'm sure it will come back to me.

Magic Bus 

Never believe what you see written on a bus. Where's the £350 million? The Magical Mystery Tour is waiting to take it away....

Brexit Benefits

Ended free movement and taken back control of our borders.

The UK has welcomed thousands of workers with the skills the country needs to support our domestic labour market as we build back better* from the Covid pandemic, from doctors and scientists to butchers and bricklayers.

Source:  The Benefits Of Brexit How the UK is taking advantage of leaving the EU. HM Government. * Whatever the hell Build Back Better means? It's a Johnsonism. 

UK's shortage of lorry drivers. 100,000. 

A Road Haulage Association (RHA) survey of its members estimates there is now a shortage of more than 100,000 qualified drivers in the UK.

That number includes thousands of drivers from European Union (EU) member states who were previously living and working in the UK.
The government has granted visas for 5,000 lorry drivers to work in the UK, although only just over 20 of the 300 applications have been approved so far, according to Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden.

When does telling someone to "get lost" ever encourage them to return to our shores?  When I used to work in retail, I recall that they advised against that. 

Added to that, the returning drivers will be dealing with a 1960's paperwork system, driving on poorly maintained roads, even worse provision of lorry parks. 
But the EU has a shortage of 400,000 lorry drivers?
Yes. but a shortage of 400,000 lorry drivers is equivalent to a shortage of 14,000 drivers per EU country, and they also have complete freedom of movement too. So they could top up. We can't. 
Seriously, we would be in logistics heaven if our shortage was only 14,000 drivers.