Fruit & crop picking

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  1. Dragon Tyke

    Dragon Tyke Well-Known Member

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    surely we can use , perhaps, some of those on community service to help out with this.

    Just a thought .
     
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    And the scrounges who have never done a days work in their life and live off the state
     
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    Dragon Tyke Well-Known Member

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    your words not mine.... get thi tin helmet on matey.
     
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    36,000 signed up to work on land, 16% have gone through to nexr stage of recruitment. and 112 have signed contracts according to Countryfile yesterday.
     
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    Dragon Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Brit's ? thats good to hear MHT
     
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    MrsHallsToffeerolls Well-Known Member

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    No it aint enough, a lot of the initial 36,000 backed out.
     
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    Farage complaining about bringing in overseas workers - pretty sure he's out of work. Come on Nigel get stuck in!!
     
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    Like ALL Poloticians good with words!!!!
     
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    Bit risky. How would you know which one was the cabbage and which one was Farage?
     
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    Lol! Or the melon if he was fruit picking
     
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    You will get a better level of conversation out of the cabbage
     
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    One of them stinks, is difficult to stomach in any quantity and is wrinkly to behold.....the others a cabbage.
     
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    They presumably wouldn't be much good at picking fruit then.

    That's half serious: you'd need a lot of people working reluctantly and without any previous experience to get through the same amount of work as a bunch of expert Romanians.
     
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    I’m not sure I want my strawberries picked by hardened criminals.
     
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    The cabbage would talk more sense
     
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    Why? You're not going to be possessed by the spirit of Al Capone via a strawberry
     
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    I wouldn’t trust them to have washed their hands properly.
     
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    So people are expected to work backbreaking 12 hour shifts in poor working conditions for the National Minimum Wage. They will be accommodated in caravans pulled out of service by the Holiday camps because they were unfit for use and charged top wack. They will most likely have to pay for any hand tools such as knives they may need and pay their own travel costs to get to the Farms. I'm sure there will be a rush.
     
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    But that is what the Eastern European workers do though, isn't it?

    Good job we have now left the EU and they can't come over anymore eh? LOTS more jobs for our lads and lasses!

    Personally I would put the entire UKIP membership onto picking cold, hard vegetables, after all, they've got form for this
     
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