The notion that immigrants are putting a burden on the NHS at this time is fucking disgusting lad. For one, it's proven bollocks. Two, immigrant doctors and nurses are dying to help the people of this country during the coronavirus pandemic. Shame on you.
Correct. About 25,000 people in the UK applied to work on farms. Less than 200 got a job so far.
Zzzzzz. Yes it’s all on the nasty foreigners and not the failure of governments to increase the housing stock. Heavens forbid we should hold those accountable for the failings.
I'd love to do this but I know I wouldn't last a week.these days
A taste of life after Brexit in a small nutshell. It’s either import the workers or import the produce and let the farms rot.
There’s probably thousands of people in the UK who “could” do the work as you 25000 applied. 200 got a job so far the question is why. You can’t look at the two numbers alone. How many were offered a job and how many turned it down. Working the land is neither an easy job or well paid and never has been. Your average British Joe simply just doesn’t want to do that work when there’s other jobs out there that are easier to do and better paid.
No what the government should of done was select 150 or however many needed of the long term dole dossing scroungers we have here and make them earn some of their universal credit.
Certainly not easy work. Another job that should have higher pay.
This is 25,000 that wanted the jobs. The company that flew 150 people in from Romania prefer experienced fruit pickers to those they would have to train. They stated the fact themselves.
He's not questioning the people who work for the nhs ffs. Selected immigration is a good thing for this country ie getting the best foreign doctors and nurses to come and work here. He's on about the rest that we dont need putting unnecessary pressure on the nhs/schools/housing etc. But you know this already dont you. It's not unbelievable for me to say whenever I walk into the walk in centre for example I can hardly here an English accent. Why is that? Before you start resorting to the usual nazi rhetoric why is that? Are they always ill? After all they only make up a small percentage of the population.
I did it when I left school when I was 16. My citb course didn't start until the September and I was desperate to earn some cash. It was on some farm over balsall common. I pleaded with them on the phone to take me on but they didn't want to as I wasn't 18. I said I didn't want to be paid as much as an adult then they agreed. Absolutely back breaking work. Long hours as well. I remember eating my sandwiches next to the potato harvester with muddy fingers. Glad I did it though. A lot of the kids these days wouldn't even entertain such a job.
Like I said earlier some people should be forced ie the ones who take the piss with benefits. Problem is though the likes of tony will moan about their rights whilst at the same time moaning about having to import foreign workers.
You and your comprehension. For starters where did I accuse anyone of being lazy? It’s a free country, people are free to choose their employment and personally working the land would be far from my first choice not because I’m lazy but simply because I have better options in terms of pay and conditions. You do understand the difference between applied, offered and accepted? You’re original post could be taken as 25000 applied but only 250 were offered a job. That almost certainly won’t be the case and by the way the NFU are still optimistic that British workers will take the jobs. Working on a farm is one of the jobs that you’re allowed to take to top up your wages while furloughed so it’s possible, however if you live in the centre of London you probably won’t be looking to take a job in Norfolk pulling up carrots for £400 a week. There’s a big question over willingness, that’s willingness not laziness and that is anyone’s free choice to make.
You should be in government, I’m amazed that no one has thought of doing this before.
Germany flying in 80000 Romanians and Poles to pick strawberries and asparagus atm. Austria desperately trying to find East European Labour as well.
One of my daughters had to spend a couple of days in Walsgrave last year (nothing serious) and the first thing that dawned on me while sitting in a corridor for 3 hours waiting for her to come out of theatre was who is going to clean the hospitals after Brexit?
That I dont agree with. Them not being allowed in I mean.
Standard mature response as usual.
What's wrong with clamping down on both?
Do we actually have enough slack in the British workforce to make it up though? We have had record lows in unemployment for a good while now and agri jobs have a lot of competition. People have choices and the right to choose whatever job they A) want to apply for and B) what they want to accept.
People don't like piecework. Most of the seasonal harvesting work is that. Also comes down to geography in many cases in having to get large groups of people from urban to rural areas on a daily basis.
There was a time when European countries used to import British workers too. Anyone remember the sitcom Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Had a couple of uncles who went to work in Germany myself when I was a kid.
They still do to some extent. My brother occasionally goes to Germany to work on the wind turbines over there
You volunteering then?