Fruit and veg ‘will run out’ unless Britain charters planes to fly in farm workers from Europe

[festive]

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/brexit-...w-brits-prepared-to-pick-fruit/554452.article
However, they have to pay at least a national minimum wage.

I just had a look - the jobs advertised all pay minimum wage.

Thanks for the detail here, i know i'd be booting some of my kids straight down here to help them realise the value of money and what grafting means, too many of them have this sense of entitlement nowadays 'work?...i am going to have 10million followers on youtube'

 

[sodthisforfun]

Thanks for the detail here, i know i'd be booting some of my kids straight down here to help them realise the value of money and what grafting means, too many of them have this sense of entitlement nowadays 'work?...i am going to have 10million followers on youtube'

There was something on the news some months ago about teenagers no longer wanting Saturday jobs, bankrolled instead by parents. I can't help but think that's a bad move on a lot of levels. Learn about money, working, meeting new people and also the pride of earning a bit of cash for themselves to spend. I remember my first little brown envelope of cash from my bakery job aged 12 - great feeling!

 

[transam]

I recall. My first pay packet when I started work from. School

£9.15p

 

[JayJay1978]

I recall. My first pay packet when I started work from. School

£9.15p

£9.15? you were lucky..I painted a farmers fence for £1.50 a day and got mauled by a Rottweiler, took me three days. 1988 I think

 

[JP_]

Farmers had been warning that this wold happen since 2016 ...

no we've shut the borders.

Get ready to start enjoying turnips again.

 

[transam]

Farmers had been warning that this wold happen since 2016 ...

no we've shut the borders.

Get ready to start enjoying turnips again.

What warning that all borders will shut because of chinese flu

 

[noseall]

teenagers

My eldest got a part time job a Maccies. He unloads the lorries and unpacks the crates into the freezer. He'll go after school and gives up his Saturdays and Sundays.
My youngest who recently turned 16 loves to graft. Both have worked for their dad and both are like a pair of Springer Spaniels. You cant tire them out. My youngest is stripping out the dining room in preparation for a kitch/diner knock through.
He's cutting the old skirting board into manageable lengths...

Graft

• noseall
• 30 Mar 2020

I've got a recip' saw but thought this would keep him fit.

 

[Bodd]

What warning that all borders will shut because of chinese flu

Jon knew this was coming, he chose not to tell us or the Chinese... Everything starts in Chelmsford.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

The problem is whether the person actually wants the job

...and the reason so many persons don't want the jobs is that the state pays them not to work.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

The unemployed do not resolve the issue of shortage of workers.
Except in these unique circumstances.

You might like to cling to your naive belief your simplistic solution is the answer.
It is not, it doesnt matter how many times you repeat it.

Loony left twaddle. Repeat it millions of times, pay people billions not to work, take over the national broadcaster and drown out any dissenting voices and you'll have entire nations believing it readily.

 

[Notch7]

Loony left twaddle. Repeat it millions of times, pay people billions not to work, take over the national broadcaster and drown out any dissenting voices and you'll have entire nations believing it readily.

please explain how the shortage of agricultural workers can be solved by unemployed people.

you think you have the answers, go ahead lets see the detail.

 

[Ryler]

unemployed people

They are "job seekers" are they not?
I thought it was the case that if you refuse work, you lose the benefits?

I'm sure the law could be changed if not already so.
Given the turmoil that we face.

 

[Bodd]

There are alot of people who are Furloughed who are used to work and would love to top up their 80%

 

[Mottie]

My first paper round: 30/- a week. Thirty bob. £1.50. My first evening job: 5 nights a week cleaning the canteens in the Bass Charrington brewery in Bow for £6 a week. My apprenticeship at a Vauxhall Bedford dealer - 32p per hour. £12.80 a week. While doing that I got a part time evening job in a back street garage that worked covering overspill for the AA. £2 a night for being on call, £1 per breakdown after the first one. They offered me a full time job for £30 a week. I couldn’t believe my luck. My dad phoned the owner up and said I could work there only if the owner let me live in his house because if I accepted a job with him he was chucking me out. I finished my apprenticeship!

 

[noseall]

Repeat it millions of times and you'll have entire nations believing it readily.

Just like your daily wail boyo.