The moan people had about migrant labour BEFORE Brexit was that they were "stealing our jobs."
This is nothing more than a meme peddled by leftists. I never heard anyone saying this seriously. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's examples of BNP voters barely able to construct a sentence saying these things, but it's not representative of the general Brexit voter.

Here's an article from 2010 from, believe it or not, the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/...ion-hits-wages

This was definitely one of the issues that contributed to our decision to leave the EU. I'm sure you can find more articles on this subject if you do some fishing.

no-one who's British wants to do those jobs
Because there are more appealing careers. If you had the choice between driving a HGV, or a white van, for the same money, what job are you going to take? HGV driving is difficult, driving a van is a piece of piss. HGV driving should be much better paid, the drivers are carrying much more freight than the van so they make a greater economic contribution. They should be rewarded so.

The UK appears to have plenty of HGV qualified drivers, it's just they choose another job.

And let me remind you it's not just truck drivers we're short of, it's farm labour, retail, hospitality, and careworkers to name a few. That's a hell of a lot of retraining we're going to need to fill all those gaps.
Farm labour, hospitality and retail are hardly jobs that need intensive training. And care is another sector where people are underpaid for the job they do. It's barely above minimum wage for wiping other peoples' arses. Why aren't care workers paid a fair wage? Same story. Migrant labour driving down wages. So pay more, that will solve the problem. Care workers deserve a good wage.

Also, I'm not aware of any retail shortage before covid. There might well be now, I'm definitely seeing lots of vacancies in this sector, but I don't anticipate that remaining a problem once we're back to normal. Farm labour and hospitality, maybe there are chronic problems here. This is where unskilled migrant labour is actually beneficial to the British economy.

And this isn't just a criticism of the gov't, it's a criticism of Brexit
The problems began with membership. So you can criticise Brexit if you like, but it's short sighted.

Remainers argued that we relied on migrant labour and would suffer if they were suddenly kicked out.
Brexiteers didn't dispute this. Our argument was that we need to readjust our economy so we're not reliant on migrant labour. We were saying reliance on migrant labour is a problem that needed fixing. We also knew that this wouldn't magically be fixed the day we left the EU.

Back THEN, Brexiters said it was project fear.
No, project fear was a reference to doomsday predictions that suggested our economy would collapse, that inflation would cripple us. Funny how Germany is currently suffering worse inflation than the UK.

I get that you're happy to die on the hill of Brexit, and no amount of economic pain for the country will change your mind about it
I'm sure if you can be bothered to trawl through my pre-vote posts you'll see me saying exactly this, that the short term economic pain would be worth it in the long run. I was saying it would take a decade, not a couple of years. I knew it wouldn't be smooth sailing. But it was something I felt needed to happen for the long term benefit of the UK. Come back in 2030 and let's see if we still have these problems.

If anything, the gov't is just making it worse
The Tories being useless cunts is not part of the debate about whether or not we should have left the EU. That's a General Election issue.

Lots of terrorists coming over from Switzerland and Norway apparently.
Remember the French terrorist attacks at the Bataclan and Stade de France? Those terrorists came from Belgium.