Romanian Crop Pickers

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  1. Not The Messiah

    Not The Messiah Well-Known Member

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    The Government is bringing in 6 flights of crop pickers from Romania, they can't get British workers to do the labour. This isn't what we voted for surely - but we did know what we were voting for. Viva la Brexit.
     
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    What happened to all those British people applying to work the land that was reported in the papers? Who would have thought it.......
     
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    But they are "taking our jobs".
     
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    Not The Messiah Well-Known Member

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    Perhaps Nigel Farridge and Katy Hopkins will volunteer.
     
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    There’s half a million long term work dodgers they should be the ones doing this not eastern eoropeans
     
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    The problem isn't Brexit or the reasons some people voted to leave the EU.
     
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    only if there’s an option to bury them on the land after
     
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    I see where we're going with this. The usual quality of Brexit debate on here. I'm out.
     
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    Probably the £7 an hour that puts British workers off!!!
    Poor old farmers and land owners might not hit there profit targets.
     
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    Not sure why anyone is worried about the economic impact of Covid 19 given we will soon have an extra 350 million quid a week to play with. Happy days.
     
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    Of course it is a consequence of Brexit. We were told on a number of occasions farmers would have an issue getting the required labour.
     
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    They're quoting £400 per week in the press which is quite a bit more than £7 an hour.
     
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    No there aren't.
     
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    Minimum wage is 8.70 ph
     
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    what a load of ******. Really? During a pandemic?
     
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    They obviously haven't got time to go through the 17.4 million applications.:)
     
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    many farm workers are made to pay for their accommodations with monies been deducted at source so end up with les than minimum wage.
     
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    Yes but nothing would ever, ever grow within a mile if we did that.
     
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    Because the Romanians are trained professional pickers .
     
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    It was a total guess, I find it surprising that £400 per week doesn't attract more people to do it.
    Unless there's something else that puts people off?
     
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