Romanian Crop Pickers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-52300349

 

Most of these "half million long term work dodgers" live in towns and cities. Farms are not in the cities, and often in rural areas that are difficult to get go on public transport in normal times. Can you see a slight problem there?

 

Not one, but ALL the people I have come across that I would describe as idiot voted leave. Ask the Millwall hooligans how they voted.

 

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! Brilliant!!

 

Hope these workers are screened and tested before starting work Romania whilst one of the least affected in terms of recorded CV19 have seen their cases multiply 7 fold in last couple of weeks

 

UK (194 deaths/million) is roughly ten times worse than Romania (19/million).

 

More to the point hope they dont catch it over here.

 

Due to the cost of living in Romania £400 a week is a lot of money to them. They are also trained workers, not casual staff in the main.
It makes sense on several levels, that said I think British workers should be considered also, but for the reasons given above in this said I can see why there may be few applicants. I did some similar work in summer holidays when studying for my A levels. I quite enjoyed it, but it was bloody hard work. At 55 it'd probably kill me now!

 

No if Romanians can be flown in why can’t they bus the longterm unemployed in

 

Yep I know, that’s probably why I put one of least affected areas.

 

Just watched the BBC report of the arrival of the first plane loads of professional Romanian crop pickers at Stansted.
According to the reporter, part of their remit is to train 500 British people to pick crops.

I've done it as a younger lad, and training to pick takes about 10 minutes.

I think by the word training they mean demonstrating the willingness to put in back breaking 10 hour shifts in cold, damp conditions relentlessly and mind numbingly repetitively cutting thousands of lettuce/cabbages etc. Day after day whatever the weather. For minimum wage, less the charge for use of the caravan
Then finish for the day to drop exhausted into bunk beds into said cramped ex-Skegness caravan with a single toilet to share, amongst a group of strangers and being a long way from home.
I well remember my time in the fields, the awful cold, feeling like your hands were dropping off, being hardly able to stand up at shift end due to being crouched over all day, we had a drink of hot chocolate at 10am and 3pm from the farmer, and bread and dripping sarnies for our 20 minute dinner break. An awful, gruelling job
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At least those 500 Brits are giving it a go and credit to them, but I do wonder how many will stay the course.

 

500 I saw a report where it stated we need 70,000

 

Said the Romanians were scared but it was that or no money. And that many were returning having worked other years at the farms.

 

'A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian' by Marina Lewycka.

Story based in Peterborough - excellent book about migrant workers,

 

Anyone who's been laid off can pick fruit, right? It's not that simple
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The Govt are not bringing them in
If you're going to add the sniping bits at the end...at least try and get your facts right. It's a private company chartered by private companies, the same carrier who've also been flying workers to pick crops on German farms for last three weeks.

 

I have to wonder how many the UK have in prisons and on community services ... surely we can use those to help food picking

 

Hows about they get off their arses and relocate to where the work is? Just a thought. What they lose in terms of easy access to a Costa, Greggs, and half a dozen bookies, may be more than made up for by the esteem and self-respect they'll gain from ceasing to be parasites. Everybody wins.

 

I I find it incredulous that these remain hungry posters think that it’s a good idea to ship people around like cattle, so they can do low paid menial work for us, as we are too superior to do it for ourselves as a nation. But are then disgusted at a suggestion that we ship unemployed from our own city’s instead. Obviously, these European countries have a different welfare model that removes the Incentive for these workers to not bother travelling away from their family’s for most of the year for a small wage and difficult job.