Posted on 06/22/2017 11:28:39 AM PDT by johnk
A Leave-voting business owner has said he regrets the decision because his fruit farms will collapse if he has no access to EU workers after Brexit.
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He said: “I regret my vote in the face of the Government I'm given.
“The reason I voted to leave was that I'm in favour of sovereignty. This was about sovereignty for me.
“As businessmen we need clarity about our future direction.
“If I don't have my 2,500 staff that I need, or I have no certainty of that from 2019 onwards, I don't have a business. It's as simple as that.”
A worker at Hall Hunter Partnership's Tuesley Farm in Godalming, Surrey, told Today it had had one English applicant in the last several years, but that they quit after one day.
The company farms more than 1,100 acres, including 43 acres of greenhouses.
In its Brexit White Paper earlier this year the Government admitted the UK Parliament “has remained sovereign throughout our membership of the EU”.
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It said Brexit was already exacerbating a shortage of seasonal labour and has warned MPs that losing access to European workers will have a “disastrous and cataclysmic” impact on the industry.
Around 95 per cent of the 29,000 seasonal workers each year currently come from the EU — primarily from Poland, Bulgaria and Romania — and demand is expected to rise to around 31,000 by 2020 if the industry continues to grow, the organisation said.
It has called for a seasonal agriculture permit scheme which would allow labourers from Europe to enter the UK on fixed-term contracts “to fill the jobs UK citizens shun”.
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He can’t find Englishmen to work the fields?
This voter fails to understand that once Britain’s Parliament regains control of their borders they’re free to pass some kind of “guest worker” law which would allow people to come and pick his fruit.
My tagline explains the problem.
Shhhh!!
Get them off the dole and working for Dole.
Near the junction of I-75 there are many businesses featuring signs in Spanish.I wonder if those signs are meant for wetbacks from Mexico that pick the oranges.
As in the US, it's easier to be on welfare than to pick fruit. Eliminate the dole, and he will find plenty of British workers (after the riots subside).
Or get a few Yobs off the dole and tell them to go pick some fruit.
“...by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you’re always going to need more slaves.)...”
This is so true, I found this out when I had to take a training trip for work to L.A.
The whole place is driven by “slave” Mexican labor. Trash disposal, landscaping, fast food, maids, highway workers... anything you can imagine.
These people are living high on the hog on the backs of other people, for pennies on the dollar.
DISGUSTING.
The ones poor enough to take a hard job would rather live off the government.
“... As in the US, it’s easier to be on welfare than to pick fruit...”
This is what I think the driving force of the coming civil war will be.
People do not want to go back to work anymore. When they are forced to the will rebel. That will be the tipping point.
I say bring it on, if they don’t want to work then there is not much we can do but stand our ground and fight.
Plus the corrupt government loves getting those kickbacks from all the WELFARE that is distributed. They will be furious when the cash cow is slaughtered.
But manual labor is so “undignified”. The least they can do is require able-bodied people on the dole to participate in seasonal harvests unless they have secured a better-paying job elsewhere. Russia required college students to help with the harvest, both to get the harvest in and to give the students a taste of proletariat options. I think China does the same.
I grew up in Idaho potato country in the Sixties. Though I did not live on a farm, every October was harvest time and it was all hands on deck. School was cancelled for two to three weeks and the harvest started after the first hard frost killed the vines and had to be completed before another hard frost froze the ground down to the potatoes. Kids like me dressed in a couple layers of old clothes (Idaho Octobers are pretty cold), brown work gloves, hats, with sack lunches and showed up at the school parking lot at dawn where the local farmers would cruise around and select us. We would be driven in the back of pickups to the fields (usually several miles away), given baskets which held about 50 pounds of potatoes and pointed to a section of the field to begin. Gunny sacks were strewn about every fifteen feet along the row. We worked with a partner, filled our baskets, dumped two baskets-full into each gunny sack and moved on. My first year, about 1961 I think, my partner and I were paid seven cents for each 100-lbs picked. We worked from sun-up to sundown with a short lunch break. Still remember that my partner and I earned a grand total of $1.68 for our first day of work. (That year it was also our last day because we were all of eight years old and not very attractive employees.) In later years the pay went up slightly and then later when combines were more prevalent, we earned an hourly rate. It is how I earned money to get my school clothes out of layaway at Sears.
Amenities were few and far between. I don’t recall the luxury of portapotties. I think the trucks sometimes carried water bags in front of their engines. Once year, after working on a combine during the week I had duty also as a Candy Striper in the local hospital. One of my harvest coworkers (an adult woman) was brought into the emergency room. She insisted in showing me her amputated fingertip. Another time the farmer took off for a long appointment somewhere without leaving our bag lunches.
We ate dirty raw potatoes “peeled” with a nail file. It was either that or nothing at all for eighteen hours straight hard labor.
But none of us considered any of this undignified or beneath us. The farmers got their harvests safely tucked into the cellars and we city kids made some needed money.
My 17 year old has always been a good worker. Just recently he was helping my best friend who is a master electrician.
In one week my son made 600+ dollars working about 4 days.
The very next week he worked for a church member. He had to scrape off about 1 years worth of hay and manure from the floor of the barn with only hand tools. He said it was the worst smell he had ever experienced. At the bottom the manure had almost liquefied into a crude oil type of thing.
After that he had to cart it off by hand to a pile with a hand truck. He worked for about 6 hours for 50 bucks.
As you can imagine this taught him a good lesson of the value of the trades. He always wanted to be an electrician, now he knows for sure.
BTW: He has also completed a 4 or 5 ministry courses already (he just finished 11th grade) to hopefully become a pastor someday.
Sold his soul for dirt cheap foreign labor.
Now that dirt cheap foreign labor is going to end up owning him.
Arab muslims are the masters of the slave trade. They make the europeans and asians look like rank amateurs when it comes to acquiring and controlling human cattle.
It’s England. The public dole pays enough to live in semi-comfort. Why work?
I hope his journey brings him success and happiness. My labors helped me persevere through the most difficult parts of law school.
Repeal all Guest Workers.
Replace with Farm Owners.
Big Corporate farms replaced Owners with Slaves.
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