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bhinso World Chat Champion
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Posted: 16:50 - 22 Apr 2020 Post subject: Foreign land workers being flown in |
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I read that Romanians were being flown in to work on the land, where we have significant unemployment in this country.
Half the people are saying it's because British people would rather take universal credit and sit on their battys all day than do an honest day's work.
The other half are saying There were hundreds of British applicants for these jobs only to be told there were 'no vacancies'.
I really don't know what to think ? |
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Posted: 17:00 - 22 Apr 2020 Post subject: Re: Foreign land workers being flown in |
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bhinso wrote: | I read that Romanians were being flown in to work on the land, where we have significant unemployment in this country.
Half the people are saying it's because British people would rather take universal credit and sit on their battys all day than do an honest day's work.
The other half are saying There were hundreds of British applicants for these jobs only to be told there were 'no vacancies'.
I really don't know what to think ? |
This is old news.
Not very many people are being brought in for seasonal work. The number will be in the hundreds. There may be more later if conditions improve. This is far, far fewer than the normal number, which last year was somewhere north of 75,000 seasonal workers. Since we are not in the eu, it is not intended that this high number continues anyway.
Part of the problem with the here and now is that the population are not used to this work, most are not living in the right areas to do it or to commute, and are not all the right sort of people.
I applied for a farm job via one of the recruiters, to be told "full 'till May". I have not heard back about May.
Many of the people previously coming into the UK for seasonal work actually lived in farm accommodation, which is available to UK workers (although workers have to pay for their accommodation).
It's not a very straigfhtforward issue. |
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Another slant on it which I had been told was not that the foreign workers were employed over British ones, but that they had been brought back in order to train the British ones how to do the job.
Ya right
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- wrote: | Already discussed elsewhere. It stems from one racist woman who hasn't even tried asking UK citizens if they want to do it.
The government has already said people can still claim the furlough money and earn on a second job fruit picking. This "I hate British people" champagne socialist claims the British workers would need too much training to pick herbs.
Quote: | Stephanie Hildon, who runs Langmead Herbs in Chichester on almost 3,000 hectares of land, told Sky News her Romanian workforce is loyal and committed.
"If I was going to be recruiting from the UK and taking on people that are unfortunately out of work that would require a huge amount of retraining to get these people up to speed," she said. |
I wonder if she has to pay these Romanians minimum wage? |
I agree entirely with everything you've said on this subject except for the bit about the champagne socialist, farmers are without exception usually about as right wing a bunch of folks that you will ever meet. Smallholders tend to swing the other way but most of the ones I know haven't got two pennies to rub together, let alone swill champagne!
Most of the male young farmers that I grew up with moved out of farming, a couple became self employed farm labourers, but of my little group of mates, off the top of my head there's a joiner, a regional manager for Mole Valley, an estate land manager, an Australian pilot, a general builder, two tree surgeons and a theme park manager. Farming pay is shite, the ones who stayed could afford to do so because the bank of mum and dad had fronted the loans for tractors and equipment so they could set up as independent farm workers based from their parents farms. Pickers weren't really a thing round our way as most places were livestock or hay to support said livestock. ____________________ Make mine a Corona. |
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So long as they're not white British Brexit voting Nazi's....
She posts shit like this.
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The long and the short of it is that it is likely that veg prices will rocket because of a shortage, the British consumer will end up paying more whether they like it of not.
So why don't the people buying the crops step up, pay more for the goods now so that farmers can get them out of the ground by employing the keen but slower, inexperienced Brits?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that prices will go up either way, but at least demand could be met, even if it means Farmer Joe doesn't get his annually replaced top of the range Land Rover this year, despite his crop price rising. ____________________ Make mine a Corona. |
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That was three weeks ago, they actually tried it since then. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 324 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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