Dover.uk.com
If this post contains material that is offensive, inappropriate, illegal, or is a personal attack towards yourself, please report it using the form at the end of this page.

All reported posts will be reviewed by a moderator.
  • The post you are reporting:
     
    Actually, Keith, Kent's salad factories could employ Brits at £10 an hour, as could so many other minimum wage factories and farms in England.
    They would need to sell their products at a slightly higher price, but that would be worth paying.

    The reason being, if 5 million unemployed Brits got into work at a tenner an hour, they could afford to pay, say, 20% more for locally produced fruit, veges, and other things.

    My calculation is as follows: a Kent salad costs 57p in the shop. Now take from that the shop's expenses and profit, and the cost of transport from farm to shop, the original price, say at Tilmanstone Salads, is a lot less that 57p a salad.

    So if the salad factory added, for example, 30% to their price for one salad, this might translate in an overall increase of 10% of the same salad at the shop counter.
    A price well worth paying if you are earning £10 an hour and not £6, or indeed just getting JSA.

Report Post

 
end link