Feel free to throw the verbal flames. Yes, why should this village boy from Nigeria be discussing what is happening in the UK. I have to because it is a free world. When the UK voted for BREXIT, they voted for “freedom”. Yes, that guy is coming for my lunch. But interestingly, that guy coming for your lunch may be the one making sure you have breakfast and dinner.
Today, there is a massive shortage of truck drivers in the UK. Magically, instead of converting doctors, engineers, politicians, etc to truck drivers, the UK wants to issue emergency visas to get “foreign truck drivers” – a rare group of people the UK cannot produce in days!
Of course, they will get the drivers because people need wages. But over time, the world will begin to understand one thing: those who are castigated as being “useless” are actually the people driving the world. Like during the peak of covid-19, I saw garbage collectors at work, when everyone was even afraid to open his or her windows.
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The greatest shame in this world is associating prestige or influence to where we work or what we do to earn a living. If that is not the case, the UK would not have frozen truckers only to be begging them to return!
The UK government is poised to temporarily ease visa rules to attract more foreign lorry drivers, reports said Saturday, as it grapples with a growing shortage that has now hit fuel supplies.
The lack of tanker drivers has led to huge queues at petrol stations in recent days, as people ignore government pleas not to panic-buy fuel after some garages closed due to the lack of deliveries.
Up to 5,000 temporary visas could be issued under the short-term scheme, according to media reports, amid an estimated shortfall of around 100,000 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers.
Of course you may ask if Nigerians drivers will begin an exodus to the UK just as our doctors are relocating to the UK. Who knows, provided the UK will honour their trucking licenses issued by the Nigerian government. And if that is the case, another Sheraton Hotel recruitment will happen, but this time for truckers and not doctors.
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The people we pay excessive wages, what do they do? And the ones we pay meagre wages, how important are there jobs? You do very little and you earn so much, you do so much and you earn very little, another paradox…
This warped classification of using how many years one spent in school to create wage classes, is something we must take a critical look at, else the low income groups we neglect will soon realise their importance and then use it to ground each economy, then the ones that sit in fine offices will discover how helpless and unimportant they truly are.
For now the UK can always look for the fall guys, the immigrants to hire, because an average UK citizen isn’t even ready to work, let alone ‘lowly’ tasks, not as long as the government can get foreigners to them and extract enough taxes, which keep the lazy folks afloat.
Now you know why developing countries will remain developing, because it’s the developed ones that have kept the former in that perpetual developing status, for situations like this.
We can passively discuss strikes by doctors and lecturers, but wait until NUPENG guys go on three days strike, then you will know who really run the land here.
Until the small guys realise how much power they wield, the artificial big guys will continue to trample on them.
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