I wasn't one of the ones who voted to close, but I can see their reasoning. The question closed because "Real questions have answers". In other words, your post does a lot of rambling and ranting, and the actual question you are asking is not very clear. Yes, context is important, but in your case the question gets lost amidst all of the background. You don't need to remove information, but your post could benefit a lot from some reorganization and focusing of your question.

However, I do suspect that an additional reason for the close votes was that it is too specific. Answerers would need to have knowledge about warehouse layoff rates in your region of the UK, which is not particularly common knowledge around here. For me that's not enough cause for a close vote (though others may disagree), but add that to a poorly written question and I completely understand.

I wasn't one of the ones who voted to close, but I can see their reasoning. The question closed because "Real questions have answers". In other words, your post does a lot of rambling and ranting, and the actual question you are asking is not very clear. Yes, context is important, but in your case the question gets lost amidst all of the background. You don't need to remove information, but your post could benefit a lot from some reorganization and focusing of your question.

However, I do suspect that an additional reason for the close votes was that it is too specific. Answerers would need to have knowledge about warehouse layoff rates in your region of the UK, which is not particularly common knowledge around here. For me that's not enough cause for a close vote (though others may disagree), but add that to a poorly written question and I completely understand.