Or people don't eat enough fruit and veg.
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But you can hardly walk a street in the UK that does not offer pizza/kebab/burger etc. It could be (drum roll) that consumers just are not eating healthily enough to keep farmers afloat. Or maybe (shock horror) some farms are badly run businesses
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It’s the British consumer.. put £50 on the price of a TV and they still buy it, put 5p on a pound of spuds and they buy pasta instead.
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So will people really be happy paying an extra shilling a pound for spuds?
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Me and my friends always used to work in the fields in our school holidays. A shilling a bag for carrots. I could pick 40 bags in a day-£2.00. Gave me the money to buy material to make a dress for the weekend. Yep, I’m really old!
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Old,but very wise!! Thats when we had nothing! Now they want it all! For nothing!
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oui less of the old, we are experienced best days of our lives, i wouldn't swap with the kids of today for anything
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Nor would i and i am fifty four.. I only said old as i was replying to someone ho addressed themselves as old. But old is good,we all get there in the end hopefully x Enjoy your evening x
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I bet noone advertises these jobs at the schools or colleges do they, i was unemployed for a year living in a rural town, jobseekers never came to me with seasonal picking work.....
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Totally agree with you Matt. My son would do it if he saw a farm near him,but Locals are never told the farmers are looking for staff They dont want it,maybe they like to take EU workers For some reason?
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Because the migrants live in squalor with dozens of them living in one house that can afford to live on fruit pickets wages. A man trying to provide for his family can't.
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Many of them will be “living in squalor” because it’s still preferable to the situation at home. Most will be sending money to support their own families. Don’t be so quick to dehumanise our fellow human beings.
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I don't see it as 'dehumanizing' to acknowledge that migrant workers living in shared accommodation and sending money home to their families will work for lower wages. The difference in living costs between countries is a fact.
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No to acknowledge it is not but the language of the person I commented on was charged in my opinion.
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Migrant workers can afford to work for disproportionately low wages. By living cheap here they are doing their best to take good money home to their families. But British workers need to earn enough to support their families HERE in Britain. They cannot compete.
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And what people seem to assume is that these migrant workers are the same ones all the time. They're not. Someone will come over here for 6 months, live really cheaply and then go back home (replaced by another). 6 months cheap away from home is doable.
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