Foreigners fruity finger fracas...
- 26 May 2013 09:56230915Migrant jobs squeeze alarms UK fruit farmers...
Kent apple farmers say loss of seasonal eastern European pickers will raise prices and bring industry to its knees
"The rise of Ukip is having unexpected consequences for Britain's countryside. Farmers fear that the political upstart's success has the government running scared on immigration, with the result that foreign workers could soon be absent from Britain's fields.
"We can see there's a toxic mix brewing," says Alastair Brooks, who employs 200 temporary foreign workers to pick strawberries and raspberries at Langdon Manor Farm in Faversham, Kent. "People have understandable concerns about immigration, but temporary migrant workers have got tied up in the debate," he said.
Brooks has 130 acres of his farm devoted to fruit. Without foreign workers, he says, he will have to cut production. Many other farmers are in a similar position, says the National Farmers Union, because they fear that without foreign workers they will not have the staff to do the job..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/25/migrant-jobs-fruit-farms-kentIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 26 May 2013 10:00230916how about using community payback labour?
what the farmers usually pay in wages going to a charity. - 26 May 2013 10:33230917Every foreign worker on Kentish farms costs the People much more than the farmer "saves" by not employing Brits.
Once all entitlements to benefits are counted.
And it consigns British people to unemployment.
Apart from that, the State has failed, having deliberately chosen to replace British workers with other workers.
The immigration agenda of the three parties is a failure.
The Three-Party-State had chosen to replace the British workforce in the real economy with the speculation.com banking system in the insane economy, which failed.
Most people in Britain don't take the Three-Party-System seriously any more, knowing they haven't got a clue and that they have reduced Britain's economy - and ever more British people - into poverty and bankruptcy.
Apart from that, any attempt to involve the local (yes local) community in farm projects, such as community farms, as I have, is vehemently opposed by the authorities.
They don't give the impression of being bothered in the local young generation.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 26 May 2013 10:37230918Which is why the young people won't vote for them either!
They don't trust them. Would you?Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - Brian Dixon
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26 May 2013 11:04230923do I detect a bad case of sour grapes alex. - 26 May 2013 11:10230925It seems so, Brian, now that the hens are coming back to roost.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 26 May 2013 13:30230934This farmer should not be reliant on taxpayer's subsidised cheap workers.
And EU grants
Maybe he should sell his land to smallholding farmers like it was before,
Small family run farms can do the harvesting themselves.
We can all do with out strawberries. - Brian Dixon
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26 May 2013 14:53230944but can we kieth,we don't want to upset the blue blooded bosses now do we. - 26 May 2013 17:25230960Most local farms used to lay on transport to the fields/orchards, maybe this would encourage students and unemployed to work.
I have worked in the fields and loved every minute of it, eating produce freshly picked being a bonus, kept me fit and gave me some pocket money too.