Julia, fruit and veg workers live in shitty caravans on site. They don't get housing benefit.
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I've never seen fruit & veg picking jobs advertised. Are they even advertised for, or just put to agencies for immigrants to get £1 ph?

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Fruit & veg. growers from UK travel to Eastern Europe to recruit workers for their fields. They don't even bother to try & find UK workers.
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They do. One on R4 this am said in 5yrs advertising in U.K. he'd recruited one Brit who quit after one day of hard work.
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Woman veg. grower on BBC TV said she travelled 6 times to eastern Europe to recruit workers. Has enough now. Not my words, hers.
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I phoned Tiptree fruit pickers. They use an agency to recruit all workers from overseas. No space left for hard working locals
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Still living in caravans.
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When us Londoners used to migrate to Kent to gather the Hop crops we lived in tin huts, slept on straw, cooked outside & walked everywhere.
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I've seen this business model before....oh yes, thats right, @UberUK you have no issues with those slave traders though. Why? -
You think that Uber drivers and slaves is a reasonable comparison? Not sure you know much about either, mate.
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Working for less than minimum wage, tied into a lease agreement on a car leading to 16hr days just to cover costs. Consumer happy though

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Apologies I did mean slave drivers
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Everything and I mean everything in UK politics is about Brexit and the denial of. The rest is window dressing.
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....or in this case, salad dressing.



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50 yrs ago, pre-EU, it used to be students & school-leavers working in their holidays who did this. Good pay, outdoor work, good esperience
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Yes they can but they won't
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Been in an uber lately ?
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