Brexit staff shortages cause alarm in London

[AtW]

“The UK civil service has more than 2,000 vacancies for Brexit-related roles, prompting fears of departmental understaffing ahead of potential widespread disruption in the case of a no-deal Brexit next month.

Officials in some critical functions have been ordered to avoid taking holidays in January or February as Whitehall faces one of the biggest challenges in its history.

The staff shortages have caused alarm in London as the UK and EU have warned that talks aimed at securing a post-Brexit trade deal could collapse within days.”

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[BR14]

FOaTw

[Mordac]

Cushy job with a nice pension, knock off at 5 on the dot every day, I'm surprised they're not inundated with applications.

[AtW]

Cushy job with a nice pension, knock off at 5 on the dot every day, I'm surprised they're not inundated with applications.

Exactly right, why won’t these jobs get applicants?

Be afraid, be very afraid

[Whorty]

FOaTw

Is that all you ever have to say? What a dullard

[darmstadt]

No problem, there are up to 600,000 Hong Kongians going to the UK in the next couple of years, many of them highly educated (and a few PRC sleeper agents hidden in there) to fill up all these and other roles (but not fruit picking): UK government 'has underestimated takeup for Hong Kong resettlement scheme' | Hong Kong | The Guardian

[Old Greg]

Is that all you ever have to say? What a dullard

It's his safety valve. Stops him soiling himself during bath time.