Not a surprising response from one who has had his head in the sand on this since 2016…always prepared to ignore or even mock concerns about the real motivation behind all this… I just cant believe you cant see what this has always been about, or how the fuckers took advantage of a perfect storm… a conspiracy theorist might even believe that 10 years of austerity was the perfect set up for what was to come… after ten years of shit, people will welcome any change on a hope and a promise… add in some nice rhetoric about sovereignty and control and it created a perfect opportunity for those seeking to relax legislation and regulation that in their eyes restricted their businesses or opportunity to make a killing at the expense of … environmental policy, production and safety standards, workers rights… But hey its perfectly fine for ‘right-on’ socialists such as yourself to make jokes about Goose-stepping Germans no longer telling us what to do…
… I’ll do the same when we are marching to Trumps tune which in effect you must be welcoming as you voted for it*
*and if you could not see that as a direct consequence then you a bit dumb
The appropriate context is that is you have shit others want but you don’t much want yourself, you trade it.
It would be a shit world if we only had access to things that were produced domestically. No coffee for a start.
We might not want herring, but there is a demand for it. We could fish it and sell it on, or we could provide a licence for other countries to just go direct.
After all, if France can unilaterally ban British fish sales, surely other countries can do deals to get British fishing rights.
There is no one deal to be done here if things are to be done right - just a load of little ones.
I HAVE to say, I was more than a little miffed when we left the EU at the end of January. Forty-seven years we were in it, and they didn’t even throw us a leaving do. I was a welder for thirty five years and when I retired, my mates gave me a set of golf-clubs and threw me a proper piss-up. But we never had so much as a card from Brussels. Good riddance to the fucking lot of them, I say. Nigel Garage, Wells
It’s the same situation that brought migrant workers here a long time ago. British workers do not want to work in the fields of East Anglia.
Whose fault…yours and mine.
Our unwillingness to buy produce at a price that gives the grower a reasonable profit and the Supermarkets desire to sell at low cost whilst making a bigger profit than the grower. The only way for the grower to make a profit is to offer low wages that no British worker will contemplate for a hard days work.
Cos they’re lazy fuckers who want to claim universal credit and do fuck all instead of getting out and earning an honest days wage. Rant over.
As a resident of EA it’s shameful to witness how these (mainly) eastern European workers have been treated when (and I see it every day) they really are the backbone of food production in the UK. I agree that there are some rum’uns amongst them (and also the UK fraternity) but on the whole these are decent people who just want the chance to earn a crust.
Because they are still cheap - and it is probably still cheaper to fly them in (which I suspect will be deducted from their wages) than to pay a couple of quid more to attract Brits
Plus a lot of people are still furloughed and technically employed
I’m sure I read that furloughed people can work. I could well be wrong.
There’s enough people who are out of work who can do these jobs.
And to top it off, I just watched the news and the woman who started the clapping for the NHS is bloody Dutch. She shouldn’t even be in this country let alone trying to make me look bad for not standing about clapping like a knob. The sooner Boris is better and gets Brexit done the better.
Pickers in Fife get around £12 per hour PLUS time bonus if they bring it in on time and on volume especially for time sensitive harvests… they work as team. Now, for back breaking graft £12 is not huge, but its also not minimum wage, yet they cant get locals to do it…
But you said “supply and demand… Wages will increase” etc. But all that’s happened is that they’ve flown a load of Romanians in. Why haven’t the wages increased?
