Fruit Farming on Brink of Collapse as Brexit Causes Shortage of Pickers
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Finally the "they are taking our jobs" part of the population can start working! 😁
Yes !!!
aye for east european wages... oh wait they didn't want that did they? they wanted high wages for simple jobs (kinda like the US ppl want $15/hr for flipping burgers at Mickey D
@@edmondironside240 they didn't want the jobs to begin with but whine that others do... now they are unemployed and get "free money" paid by others that actually do work... now they whine that the wages are too low... well I didn't see them fight with tooth and nail to raise the wages for the eastern europeans... because it was handy with cheap fruit and veggies right?
"Finally someone British can take up a job I won't do because I will not slave on the field for joke money". There is a reason why you were employing immigrants for those jobs. You want cheap carrot and apples when you go to the store and the only way that is happening if someone is screwed over. Get ready to eat what you grand grand nans were eating. Cabbage and occasionally some beans and potato.
@@krism6260 I grow my own ..Have fun eating dirt lmfao
So this guy is running a business that relied on foreign workers and he voted for Brexit. My only query is how the hell has he lasted this long running a business.
EU subsidies no doubt...
Because most of them have just inherited their business from Dad. They are not the astute, savvy entrepreneurs they like to portray themselves to be. Just like their Eton educated but dumb Tory idols.
@@alandavidge1273 Some inherit. Many are now owned by large supermarket chains (Tesco), national or international corporates, or private British/foreign landowners who rent them out to tenant farmers.
Where I live I believe all the farms are rented. I don't know any that are owned outright by the family that works them. There's been at least 3 tenants on the farm next to me, the farm changing landlords too (at one point owned by an international pension investment group. That's quite a common situation now).
E. U. subsidies......?
@@oldishandwoke-ish1181 ?
Most Polish people I know decided to leave the UK. They won't “steal” our jobs anymore. Now the British can work on the farms! Such a dream job!
I work on farms and in packhouses. Guess what? Now they are putting the wages up!
@@Themanyfacesofego same with lorry driving. Happy days
@@Themanyfacesofego Well even in Eastern Europe and all around the world go wages up. And you know why? Because of inflation and not brexit...
That's right. We will all leave and you will be crying
@@SpojrzenieRomana good
"The small farmer will disappear, it's all a bit of a mess". Yes, a mess that he helped cause.
He did this for his country 😂 his country lost a lot of small farms
You won, brexit farmers.
And this is your prize.
You get zero sympathy.
I’m pretty sure the first farmer voted to remain.
No sympathy for the second farmer.
How can you tell that he voted brexit?
I have sympathy for them. They were conned plain and simple.
@@saikoujikan If you had half a brain you would have knew cutting your closet trading partners off would be a bad idea.. I have as much sympathy as someone who join a cult and lost all their money.. Not a lot.
@@tomk3682 No one can be an expert in everything, and what seems obvious to you is not necessarily obvious to all. You're assuming they had the same information that you had, and in most cases they did not. Being condescending about it and outright hostile isn't going to improve things. I get that you're bitter, but if you want to combat misinformation, blaming the misinformed will actually weaken your cause.
I hear all the crying from these people, but none have admitted to being wrong.
Including from Useless Eustice, a soft fruit farmer from Cornwall who begged for brits to labour last year and got no-one
Satorious, yes that is correct, they just will NOT admit they have made the biggest mistake of their lives! But now EVERYONE has to suffer!
They will vote Tory next time. Keep that in mind...
@@Nickelodeon81 🤦🏼♀️
They never will, but they can own it.
Don't you just love the UK collapsing due to their own britishness? :D
Only if we maintain protectionist and socialised system. If we implement free trade that’ll dramatically improve our prospects.
@@tcskips maybe now you don't need socialistic feats but if someday you end up on the lower end it's good to have a safety net. What you propose is a double edged sword.
@@abt6419 Actually for many people it's a trap as if they start working while on benefits if they earn over a certain amount all their benefits get taken away leaving them with less than if they didn't work. So the ineffective welfare system disincentivizes people to work. And also the cost of their benefits is at the rest of societies expense including that of businesses who now, as a result of having less funds, won't hire as many people leading more people to go on welfare.
@@tcskips you are wrong like I said. There is always a possibility to get screwed over. There is enough wealth to endure freeloaders. The loss isn't even that great because they get easily exploited. You get the taxes from the stuff they buy with free money which also produces more income to the merchants / service companies etc. But you can have your opinion it's fine.
@@abt6419 there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The bill drops somewhere. And that is at the feet of the unemployed people who never got hired since the business never listed the job because they don’t have enough resources to justify the cost.
funny how the "rich" think they can live such a beautiful life without the help of the "poor" ...
Then once the dream is finished , out of the sudden they are the victims that need voluntary help now as they cannot afford to pay anyone any more.
Parasites
A mountain is only as high as the base allows
I never heard one of these " farmers" saying that he wished he had never voted for brexit. What about all these years he paid low wages to the Romanians etc. and kept the profits to themselves. The chickens have came home to roost. As you said to us remainers.... GET OVER IT, PAL.......
The pickers were definitely not on low wages. They mostly had great careers. But hey it’s ok for Amazon to do it
@@JamesWilson-gw2ij You trying to tell me that the Eastern European workers were paid top dollar to pick your fruit???. Pull the other one it has bells on it. I was born and brought up on a farm as a farm workers son and dad never had a decent living wage in his entire working life so I doubt that forgien workers were paid any better.
@@tommarshall1660 It isn't uncommon to pay a fair wage, but the workers have to live somewhere, so you bleed them dry with renting a small room and get your money back.
@@explosivo666 Give them a free house, usually a two roomed cottage with single glazed windows concrete floors no mains water working 7 days looking after the bosses herd of cattle, coming home shattered every night. Farmers are still living in the past as far as wages and working conditions are concerned. No wonder no one from the British Isles wants to pick thier fruit or veg.
@@JamesWilson-gw2ij Absolute nonsense. I have lived in farming areas most of my life, and I have seen repeated examples of just how poorly migrant labour is paid.
On a farm near me, not only were migrant workers living in a barn, they were paid 50p per hour - and that was actually paid to their foreman so he could buy their food at bulk rates, which they cooked, in the barn, over little gas stoves. The locals were horrified when they found out, and though the farm was busted by the police - we soon discovered other farms in the area were doing more or less the same thing.
Add to this, my old school friend worked in a care home, with migrants living on site (in a dorm in the attic) whilst working for peanuts. They weren't being paid even minimum wage - while the owners of this place were taking from the families of elderly residents as much as £1000 per week - each!
Besides, I wouldn't call fruit picking 'a great career.' It's pretty mindless if you ask me (I know, I've done it on occasion. It's terrible. Hours of boring, tedious work with almost no shelter in very open fields. Loose, dusty soil blown in your eyes under scorching sun is no fun. Should be paid at least £10 per hour. However, if people were being paid that much, you can kiss goodbye to all those affordable supermarket prices).
“Well well well… if it isn’t the consequences of my actions…”
😄
Why do you care what happens then? The Brits will find a way.
@@alelectric2767 When have they ever done that? "The Brits" have always needed others to come to their rescue.
@@KevinLyda But not to displace the indigenous of the land.
You Didn’t mind paying them peanuts when they first came here years ago when you was rubbing your hands together, unfortunately they have all wised up to it now and there’s bigger money to be made elsewhere , pay the proper money and they will come back simple and it’s fuck all to do with Brexit !
Stop telling tales
John, did you voted for Brexit?
John: yes
Then don't complain, you voted for your destruction
No......he voted for opportunity to get lazy britons back from benefits to work again......😉👌
@@knightatthecrossroads222 oh yes, lazy people will work🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@edwardvalivonis23 if you take away their benefits....they will have to.....🤔😉
@@knightatthecrossroads222 even if you take those benefits, people won't work
@@knightatthecrossroads222 Please take away all the benefits. Britain will look worse than Boris Johnsons living room within a Week.
This is what happens when the people meet the government they deserve.
Yes and I'm happy with the government we have.
vaccine passport ?
my heart bleeds for this man who voted for his own, and everyone else's demise. maybe he can grow tiny violins.
🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻 . How ever well played, it’ll always be a bitter tune.
There's definitely going to be a market for them!
Very very small one's
What black magic do the other non-EU countries use to survive? Aren't such countries mere hoaxes made up by Fox?
@@jaromor8808 I think they have a population who is willing to work for less
I love people like David. Before Brexit he just ran his mouth with complete crap that the british press fed him. It took him only 5 years to realize how stupid he is. At least I hope he has realized it. Either way, he got what he deserves.
Brexit again. Number of people unemployed in the UK 1971-2021. There were approximately 1.6 million unemployed people in the United Kingdom in the three months to April 2021. You would think a few months work would be great if you have no work, but why bother it takes times to get back into the benefits system.
@@barnabydinosaurroadsafetyp3457 with such low unemployment 3.7% in the EU that is practically the unemployable left
@@andrew300169 France June unemployment is 6.8 %
@@barnabydinosaurroadsafetyp3457 so?
@@andrew300169 Suspect this site has been hijacked mate - batty arguments, bad grammar, and seen this on a few other youtube - like bad propoganda attack from who knows who.
All i hear is "I don't want to pay my own fellow people more money than the people I exploited for years at minimum wage. Please bring me back foreign people that work harder and for much less money."
Let him dream
Why do people on minimum wage think they should be paid more? Some seem to think they should be paid the same as a doctor
@@mijicmugendo I'm sorry what? A fair wage is not I want to be payed the same as a doctor, A fair wage is I want to be able to earn enough that 1, I can save for the future or spend to upskill myself and 2 afford a way of live that is decent.
I firmly believe that the "benefits" should stop, or there should be tasks assigned to them, it should be if you cannot find work we will always have some for you not here's money. I also firmly believe there should never be a rush to bring in immigrants to fill out jobs. I am sorry but the reason you cannot find workers is either a, you do not pay enough or b you do not provide job security, so anyone looking for a stable income finds it else where. Yes there is peak labor in harvest time but if you do not support your workers though out the rest of the year they will not support you. By bringing in immigrants you do not allow the market to balance itself and as such it never remians competitive with other jobs.
@@sudaserra383 they can get vegetables and fruits from Poland
@@mijicmugendo Supply & demand. Supply of fruit pickers drops off, demand goes up and therefore so do wages. It's not rocket science...
I delivered to a grower near Boston and when I got there I thought it was a holiday camp, dozens of static homes with 4 eastern Europeans to each one, the farmer was paying minimum pay and then he was charging them rent for the accommodation, there by paying less then minimum pay. And guess what, because he got no kick back from employing locals he wouldn't give them a job. Quite frankly I'm sick of hearing these bleating employers complaining that they can't get labour to do the work, pay the proper rate and locals will do it.
Have you noticed how they all are playing it down: "it's a bit of mess..." No son, it's a f... disaster, and you were the one who caused it. Get your shit together, and stop complaining. You have no right to do so. You've wanted this.
Bloody right... zero sympathy here.
by his reckoning 2 + 2 = Minus 76
@@gerrycastlemanwarde5933
Remember „new independent UK math“:
350,000,000.00 equals zero.
@@Azzlad Surely satire, right?
I wish I could upvote you a hundred times.
"They are taking our jobs" :)))))
Now, you can do it yourself
Get farage to help...he's a complete professional. He'll do anything for money.
@@michaelmouse4024 No Get Boris to help, he's in charge (well karry in reality) He has to get the rules right, we have a MASSIVE potential to sprint ahead, but the brits have a habit of playing fair when the other side doesn't & grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory.
The problem was never jobs being taken, the problem was working for a pay that local people can’t live on... if he pays a proper wage he will have plenty of workers, if your business can’t survive without slave labour then the right thing to do is shut it down!
When i was younger, fruit picking was a great summer job...
then suddenly hordes of foreigners came every summer, now fruit picking didn’t make a sensible wage even for a student looking to work over the summer...!
Same with the transport industry, back in the 80’s drivers made more money then today not even counting inflation, many businesses have been destroyed by cheap imported labour...
Luckily it is an easy fix, pay proper wages... adjust prizing on goods affected and goods affected only, problem solved, unless you are hell bent on sabotaging yourself!!!
Definitely and ask Vancock to help you🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@michaelmouse4024 it's not Farage he is Fromage
A lot of unemployed people rely on public transport to get them to jobs when they get one. These places are out in the sticks, so you need a car to get to them. That is part of the problem with these places.
"It was working great for everybody", especially for the pickers i assume.
Well yes, the salary was sometimes 5x of what you would get normally
In there country.
Not enough for uk
Yo, arkon, if it was so awful they wouldn't have gone for the summer there. Ever been to eastrn europe?
@@abelzatyko1513 where you from . Poland?
It's okay guys, I'm sure the excellent journalism in the mainstream media outlets will report this accurately so that the government is held to account.
Hah. Good joke
The government is doing exactly what the people voted them to do.
@@BlunderMunchkin I doubt very much the public wanted these sorts of consequences. The issue is not so much leaving the EU and far more how it’s been done. COVID has not helped at all, however the govt and the businesses had several years to get new processes and working practices in place but as far as I can tell, very few used the time wisely.
@@pwells2389 government and corporations are the problem not the voters . Amazon doesn't pay taxes but get deemed essential by the government during covid , we're an island , but Boris put business first way before people .
Oh dear…. voting against EU membership when you rely on EU workers? Seriously????
@godwin polytech The don't rely on you for a job they offer their labour for a fee that is larger than they can get in their native country.
@godwin polytech Then why is there an issue now that they're not relying on you for the job? Do you pick in the UK?
They can't read or write but they can 'droive' tractors.
@@lengravy Actually most of the EU workers arriving from East Europe are well educated and multilingual many are trade persons or have professions.
@@fitzstv8506 I was referring to the British farmers.
there's no polite way to put this: the David guy doesn't seem very bright
2019 David: F@$K EU!!!
2021 David: F@$K ME!!! WHAT THE EFF HAVE I DONE TO MYSELF!!!
LOL
Why do I have a feeling he is the kind of boss that treats his employees like shit and the workers just put up with him because it's a temp job?
🤣🤣🤣
Diversity is good, diversity is strength and diversity has blessed us with modern day slavery
@@australiabelongstoafricans7078 well that’s nonsense!
"All my cheap labour that I was undercutting and taking advantage of is gone, guess I'll have to increase my wages to hire local workers instead"
or just shut down half my farm and sit on the money i made on eastern european sweat.
Local workers are ether on benefits or at pub "working hard for a pint of Stella" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@gergogaal568 thats what is going to happen any way . the prices of the products will go up so people will not buy locally and the e u market will not trade with england when they can produce cheaper themselves
Yes I worked on a farm and they charge £9 per day for transport and 11£ per day for accommodation and £2 for washing machine the accommodation was just caravan and the gangers in fields are rude so I don't think anyone would ever work in that place
Time to eat EU vegetables
So rather than strawberries, 'taking back control' tastes like ashes in their mouths. As growers you should know you reap what you sow. Well done.
Growers employed EU workers becuase they got to treat them like shit and pay them a pitiful wage. They didn't want us Britishz because we demand a higher wage and satisfactory work conditions.
Their greed had caused this, nothing else.
Bring on the Australians produce, bye bye British farmers.
*I've seen this issue thoroughout the care sector. Care home managers employing EU workers and flying them in because it'd be cheaper than hiring the British in the long run.*
They can all starve for all I care.
@@simonrodgers2375 rubbish our people here don’t wanna work……it hasn’t anything to do with wages just work ethic.
Number of people unemployed in the UK 1971-2021. There were approximately 1.6 million unemployed people in the United Kingdom in the three months to April 2021. You would think a few months work would be great if you have no work, but why bother it takes times to get back into the benefits system.
@@simonrodgers2375 you may have noticed that Australia is on the other side of the world. If you really expect to see Australian fruit and vegetables on your shelves, you are totally deluded. And, by the way, the seasons are a bit different, too.
I think is time we stick together we are on are home naw so wr most stick toghetar respect
I really have no sympathy for these people, I'm sorry, I just don't. They _knew_ exactly what they were voting for despite the warnings and now they've got it. Well, they won, now they can get over it.
You made your bed now lie in it.
*I AM SO PAST* having any concern for people who vote out of stupidity, vote out of greed, or don't protest when they get screwed over...
I JUST DO NOT CARE ANY LONGER...
You reap what you sow. In this case, literally
@@nickc6380 Or I guess, you literally don't :D
Please have some sympathy for those who voted remain and now risk loosing their livelihood.
I have to admit that watching British sorely regreting the Brexit is a guilty pleasure of mine the last couple of days.
We too in Greece had(have?) irresponsible politicians who fed the people lies and threw us in capital control state and a recession that has lasted for several years now.
So i do empathize but stupidity's price has to be paid,hopefully it's not too steep for any of us.
The price for stupidity needs to be high. Otherwise people will be tempted to do it again.
When I was growing up these sort of places were paying people from abroad 3 pound an hour because nobody else would work for that wage, now they have all went home the same growers are crying? how about you offer a decent wage?
And what wage is that Marks?
@@tonyroy8123 the one that brits are willing to work for, obviously
Diversity is good, diversity is strength and diversity has blessed us with modern day slavery
@@australiabelongstoafricans7078 the only thing modern about slavery is that you get to complain about in on the Internet
I didn't hear him apologise for voting for it and ruining young people's futures.
not just young peoples.... i wanted to retire in France
No, he was just feeling sorry for himself. Like we have any sympathy to waste on him.
@@lostintashkent Retire in France? What’s wrong with Blackpool?🤐
Serves him right!
Remoaners still at it I see 😂
You voted to take away my rights to work in the EU. Well done you won. I've suffered because of it. Now? You're suffering? You got 'back control' now' get over it'.
A lot of comments on here laughing saying now you got your jobs back, if he pays a decent wage the British will do the jobs simple as that! He is just crying because he can’t pay shit wages now.
How many bits would work on farm?
@@edwardvalivonis23 more than we would need, there is plenty already and I bet most of the people on here who say brits wouldn’t have never even visited a farm and have no clue what they are talking about it’s like one big echo chamber.
@@mejenkins2209 are you willing to replace Europeans and work for £9.20 per hour?
@@edwardvalivonis23 I worked for far less that that for years but I’ve progressed now but if my circumstances changed yes I would in the blink of an eye.
I never thought leopards would eat MY face, sobs man who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party
I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face, just everyone else's.
This is so sad.. Imagine all the starving Brits before the EU. Now they have to go back to starving because they refuse to harvest their own food. 🤣
So you agree with the exploitation of EU workers then?
A huge pool of low skilled workers leads to exploitation and lower and supressed wages!
No, they expect to be paid a decent wage for a days work.
Diversity is good, diversity is strength and diversity has blessed us with modern day slavery
"My business was totally reliant on being a member of the EU, so obviously I voted to leave the EU and now my business is crumbling before my eyes. I did it because I didn't want unelected bureaucrats telling me what to do and now things are much better because Dominic Cummings is calling the shots. Take that Johnny Foreigner!"
Why are you so bitter?
@@maewest68What makes you think I'm bitter?
@@malcatron Your tone.
@@maewest68 please elaborate
@@malcatron 1. feeling or showing anger, hurt, or resentment because of bad experiences or a sense of unjust treatment.
For example, his business is not entirely reliant on being an EU member. Check out the SAWS scheme. The real issue is yes, many EU/Foreign nationals have returned home, thank goodness, but we are also going through a pandemic where hardly anybody can travel anyway. Italy and Spain are having similar issues, and so is Greece. Greece relies a lot on Albanian workers, who are not in the EU, but don't want to leave Albania for several reasons I won't bore you with.
There is a deficit in the EU, otherwise Euroscepticism wouldn't be on the rise across the entire Continent. instead of contending with that issue, you are bitter. You don't want to understand, you just want all those "idiots" to feel stupid, drop to their knees and go golly gosh you were so right (for your own validation) and stop... what exactly? Just fall in love with the EU because you are? It's not going to happen fella.
"Traditionally in the UK the harvest of produce is done by Eastern European workers" I love how this has become "a tradition"...
From the dawn of time, the eastern european man Starberrus Pickus, has been seasonally migrating over the english channel to satisfy his need for british strawberries
Yeah, we know Britain is a very traditional country.
Well it's time for a tradition to change 😁
@@ivan-Croatian what baffles me is that those people didn't have six years continuous residence in the uk
@@ZaJaClt Haha Starberrus Pickulsky is unavailable at this time. Please leave a message ....."Hy Starberrus old chap Here is John Could you Come back and pick up my Berries of course for minimum wage as tradition demands. PS Your Loving Employer"
meanwhile in Europe - our harvesting season is going great in my area for example its going to be one of the best years for grapes and wine
Just an idea, all those who voted so fervently for Brexit and 'freedom from the tyranny of the Eu' (their words not mine).
Why don't you volunteer and line up to bridge this (I'm sure), temporary lack of EU workers and contact your local fruit or veg grower to offer your services to them?
You will be doing your patriotic duty by doing so - and at the same time, experiencing the wage rates and conditions that these previously barely tolerated EU workers had to put up with.
You could be a true leader in all of this Brexit stuff and show what true English men and women are made of.
Well, dare you?
But... but... they wouldnt be able to go down to boozer and listen to their shouty mates... who have all the answers.
Ah but that's just it. The donkey work is for lesser mortals.
One old lady insisted on James O'Brian program that she is ready to help farmers. She sounded like in her 70is and of course she is lying. Just postering
Conscription should be fun lol.
@@snezdimi6695 She almost certainly voted for it and is now trying to excuse herself by saying she will help. Well, step up lady - how exactly are you going to help?!
no more cheap labour, time to face up to the real world and pay locals a living wage.
Спасибо. Thank you Chris. And my people should stay in my country and not empty our towns!
@Well said, Yes from the other perspective... return home and rebuild local home comunites. its a win win..
@@chriscrane8702 Looks like the basics of supply and demand never applied to your country so....What an utterly naive thing to say. There is no "win win" if you can't compete in quality or quantity. And the UK can do neither.
@@quercus8833 Everybody loses in UK.
@@wthwasthat8884 supply and demand?? How about you supply your own working class people with jobs, and demand all those girls stop getting raped.
"traditionally in the uk 95% of are harvested by Eastern European people"
And what all other kind of foreigner do there? Is full of non Europeans and they not work?
well imagine my shock
"Traditionally" ah yes who can forget the East European pickers of the Elizabethan era.
You know, they're British citizens now so they won't do these kind of jobs! Not that they ever have but you get the point here.🤒
@Rory O'Neill He means Elisabeth the first, 16th century, Shakespeare's contemporary
Brits have now the opportunity to buy the good chlorine chicken from the US
woah what a shocker the thing that everyone said would happen actually happened
👍🏻
if you believe rubbish good luck
@Carl Sagan no look at the facts not some bias media
@Carl Sagan so im i
@rylixav - nobody said its going to be instant, give it a few years. On top of that, everyone said the food quality among other things will drop off drastically, not that you're all going to starve to death
Poor geezer, his slave labour has evaporated and now he will have to pay half decent wages.
nope, he will perish, it kept his business profitable, now he will be under the line
The problem is wider than that. I am all up for good salaries and i am sure everyone else is (well except of course the people trying to exploit workers). But paying more to the staff will have to be built into the price. Which will lead to more expensive food on the shelves. Now allow me to draw the attention to the fact that not everyone is capable to afford more expensive food. So what they will do? they will look for cheaper alternatives. And you just opened up the gate for import god-knows-what-quality stuff to flood the market. Import strawberries from asia, from the US - where all food standards are lower than ours here in the UK. Now you face the problem of the expensive food will rot on the shelves and supply chains just wont pick it up. Eventually driving these farming businesses out of business. And then you got a whole load more unemployed people now you need to look after (and essentially supply them with probably even cheaper alternatives)
You see the "exploitation" of the cheap workforce from other countries allowed that the poor people in the uk were able to afford uk products (which supposed to pass a higher food standard). It also allowed for most of the country to take up higher paying jobs, be a service provider (let it be IT, Finance, healthcare and all sorts). Obviously you can not sort out everyone's problems even with that, but the wast majority of people here benefited from this cheap workforce. And the cheapworkfoce was able to have a good living in their own homecountries because the cost of living there is lower than here.
Now we could argue that "well, yes but the money was moved to another country and it wasn't helping our economy" which is partially* true, however: now the money WILL HAVE TO move even bigger chunks to import the food we can no longer produce on affordable scale.
And it is only partially true: because while these people were here (cheap workforce) they spent some money here (after all they needed to eat, commute, have fun etc) - but now, it will be 100% out - because the Chinese / Indian workforce will be in their respective countries and not here.
We have two choices ahead really. We need to reduce the cost of living either through inflation, or create temporary visas for up to 6 months which you can "apply" for on the border just by saying so. "i came here to pick strawberries" - "visa approved" sort of complexity.
If we pick the first one (or the third option which seems to be the current way: aka DO NOTHING.) will lead to people living standards to drop, food quality to drop and instead of 1 in 80 to go hungry to bed will be 1 in 60, 1 in 50...
Again: paying higher wages will only drive inflation and import on the short term, and back to square one on the long term. (and for a twisted point: having low paid workforce "imported" did exactly just that for the UK workforce. they could apply for higher paying jobs because well, the sh*t jobs were done by someone who did not mind doing it and was happy with those prices. so our average uk worker could go and work in the service sector for example)
Sorry if i sound rude or anything, i am fairly sure you all know this, so, apologies if i come across as if i am lecturing you, but someone might read your comment and think "that's THE solution and an easy one". (and just imagine the people who find the £4 / box of strawberry expensive, what they will say when it will be £6,£8,£10,£15 and probably for an even smaller box)
And food prices will go up too
@@mityaboy4639 Thank You
@@mityaboy4639 well then, you can always bbq the CEO'S when the food runs out. They will be fat and juicy...
"oh no im going to have to start paying people a proper wage"
exactly
There is not even a person willing to do the job in the first place.
Also summer time workers and such thez got enough to share a apartment at least. Live above their old standards and to send money back home where it is worth so much more.
If that isn't a good deal for them what ist.
Also you don't know how much his regular workers get so don't assume.
And there is an other problem its called a reaction chain.
So now you pay your workers more and you have lets say 20 people under you.
Then everything they harvest has to be sold to a higher prize
Wich makes it easy for farmers outside the UK to undercut and only the import products will be on the market from then on
Wich destroys local food Industy forever
You are stupid to not get it.
@@YukiTheOkami so exploiting people for cheap Labour is clearly more important to you.
@@YukiTheOkami I don’t care if farmers are under cut here. To many land owners which puts prices of homes up anyway. Country sucks because of old law and law of the land. If there are not many British farmers then not many have to worry about loosing jobs
£10.50 is a decent wage but £8.91 is just a bit low but at the end of the day it's good for people who are young and wanta experience
We need to find ways to realize convergence points between countries and nations not divergence points. Brexit is a true modern disaster.
This is literally what you wanted… Now you got it.
sour grapes get over it, you lost, move on.
@@kev596 Get Back To Work🤬😡1!$
@@kev596 sour grapes is all your farmers can grow now bro
@@greentokyo Maybe you should grow a pair instead of wanting to be a lap dog for the EU.
@@kev596
"Sour grapes" indeed. Rotting on the vine more like.
When your prices are up 20% for lower quality fruit, remember you "won" and "get over it".
Ahhh, really feel for this guy! Can’t exploit the poor Europeans anymore so he starts moaning! How about raising the wages that has stagnated for almost 20 years since the free movement started?
@Hopper33 if it is not making profit then maybe it’s not a viable business.
You and I would never go near this backbreaking job. So are you advocating for desperate poor immigrants to be paid peanuts for doing this job? Or do you think anyone who does this job should get paid their money’s worth?
There is a reason why local Brits won’t go anywhere near this job and only immigrants do. Immigrants are being exploited!
@@Rebelass74 As long as everyone is willing to suck up the foot shortages, lower quality, less variety, and higher prices then you'll be spiffy. It'll be just like the good old 1940s!
@@greentokyo o for god sake!! Stop being so dramatic and get over yourself will you! You just can’t get over Brexit and want this country to fail miserably. Such a ugly trait to possess as a human being, hating yourself.
I’m Nepali immigrant to the UK. Brexit is done! Which ever way you voted, get over it and we should move forward as a team for the UK to succeed now! Otherwise migrate to Europe If you don’t like it here! Simple really!
@Hopper33 Profitable enough for this farm to pay millions in directors bonuses lol.
Diversity is good, diversity is strength and diversity has blessed us with modern day slavery
all my cheap labour EU slaves have left....now I'm going to have to pay the native workers a living wage....how terribly inconvenient.
My God, those people who voted to leave should be proud of themselves, destruction of the British growers and farmers.
Destruction of British farming because multi-millionaire farmers can't carry on paying a pittance whilst they earn a fortune?
I don't think so - they always managed to get their fruit picked before they had access to unlimited bargain-basement Eastern European labour. They just need to pay what they've got away with not paying for too many years.
@@peterthomas5792 Yes they did manage to get the fruit and veg picked before, due to the pickers coming from the Eastern European countries . 120,000 per year picking the food you eat. And the government is only allowing 30,000 in now, slight problem there, I know let's get all the people who blamed the immigrants saying they took our jobs to do it, not likely as they are too bloody lazy to get off their collective backsides to do any work. But then again its not just the farmers who are affected, hospitality industry, cleaners, doctors and nurses I could go on but I doubt u would understand
@@rogersmith568 What you really mean is that you doubt I would agree with your point of view, and you'd likely be right.
I understand full well, but am comforted by the fact that you won't 'go on' :-)
multi millionaire tells us why he will have to start paying decent wages.
And how EU subsiding cut from his profits. Like taking away the wages of the workers wasn't enough
Its not a wage issue. Even if he offered a great increase in wages it wouldn't matter because there are simply enough people. Farm work is physically demanding with long hours. Most people in country don't want to do those types of jobs.
@@BobBob-kr5wr The labor problem is the same here in the US. Mexicans crossed the borders and traveled the country working the fields and canning and freezing industries. Let me not leave out the slaughter houses and cutting and packaging parts. Republicans don't want them here but on the other side of that same coin they'd rather chew nails than learn the work in these low wage industries. It's been so long that many have no knowledge of the work their own great parents and grand parents did themselves before WWll.
@@BobBob-kr5wr I think they would if they got say five times as much as for a freakin office job.
@Mehedi Hasan: "africa will reap the benefits."
Which lefties(the same people that are fanatically pro EU) supposedly want to happen. So.... whats your issue with Brexit exactly?
Don't worry. The German car industry will come to your rescue any time soon. They need you more than you need them. But you might employ the fishermen to pick the strawberries. Those guys aren't fishing anyway, cause the can't sell their fish. Life can be so easy.
true fact!
German car industry to the rescue ... what have cars got to do with it... Number of people unemployed in the UK 1971-2021. There were approximately 1.6 million unemployed people in the United Kingdom in the three months to April 2021. You would think a few months work would be great if you have no work, but why bother it takes times to get back into the benefits system.
@@barnabydinosaurroadsafetyp3457 Not the sharpest knife in the draw are you. You know what they say about people who are too thick to get irony and satire... Brextards 😆😆😆
car irony ... like a joke that english obviously would not make as it makes no sense ... how do cars relate pleae??
@@barnabydinosaurroadsafetyp3457 I find it fascinating how all the lies that have been told from the beginning, even before the referendum, are all forgotten. Do you remember how facts were ridiculed as 'project fear' and all the false promises, that were made. The story of the rescue by the German car industry was one of them. And the fish! Your fishermen can now have all the fish. They just can't sell it without the correct paper work. And now the foreign workers, who used to pick the fruits, can't come anymore.
Who would have guessed?
England aren't very good at picking fruit. Now vegetables they're great at picking - Boris Johnson being one of them.
Good one! 😂
Last year I was looking for fruit picking jobs. I have my own market garden, I have experience of fruit picking and I am young and fit. I signed up for the schemes mentioned. I never heard anything back from these schems and at the time it sounded like there were many more applicants than expected.
I had one interview for a fruit farm job that on paper looked like a good wage but when you took into account the hours it worked out at minimum wage. I would have taken it if offered.
I believe a lot of these farmers are not interested in employing Brits because they will not put up with the poor working conditions and I suspect there is an incentive to employ a migrant workforce because accommodation can be rented back to them.
The food system in the UK is broken. We pay far too little for a food and this results in an exploited workforce. This is not given the attention that is needed to bring change.
'It's all a bit of a mess', yes but you were warned. No sympathy for you at all. Your decision has caused so much irreversible damage and despair.
You reap what you sow.
@@djyems1021 we all reap what they sow. That’s the problem.
@@djyems1021 Snap..
@@djyems1021 The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge.
Yep, never seen such a miserable bunch of winners
David Figgis, typical Brexthicker. Didn’t understand the vulnerabilities of his business, and effectively voted himself out of business. Well, I have no sympathy for him. I an not a fruit farmer, and I was arguing, and arguing, and arguing, that this was going to be disaster for any company reliant on either European workers, or trade with Europe.
I just feel sorry for those who didn’t vote for it, and have still lost their business.
Number of people unemployed in the UK 1971-2021. There were approximately 1.6 million unemployed people in the United Kingdom in the three months to April 2021. You would think a few months work would be great if you have no work, but why bother it takes times to get back into the benefits system.
Yep, same goes for the fisherman who voted Brexit…..and even the Bankers as a lot of the big banks move out of London due to lack of access to the EU markets. What exactly was the advantages of brexit again?????
@@arghjayem Banks wont be effected by moving. Its their local employees that cant move to the EU or who didnt get the option. Geography matters little to a banks top line.
@@barnabydinosaurroadsafetyp3457 Wrong wrong wrong! When you get a job these days, you REMAIN on UC for 6 months. So benefit would not be affected. In 1971 alone, there were more than 1.6 million unemployed. Do you not remember the 70's?
@@mickreaddin4979 exactly, you could work for summer at least - some are simply lazy
As we say in Spanish: "Disfruten lo votado/Enjoy what you voted for"
As we say in English, up yours!
@@fawkhamhall8596 this is why I'm leaving 😂 so aggressive 🙃
How’s it going over there 🤣🤣🤣🤣. You need us to keep your economy alive. You better hope Covid goes away real soon👍
but we didnt all vote for it.
Shouldn't that be German or French
After all they dictate what Spain does!
Your not Spanish, you are a EU citizen.
You don't have a Spanish passport, you have an EU passport.
Tell us again, how has your vaccine rollout gone?
Tell us again, what is you unemployment rate.
Tell us again, what is it like to control your own currency.
Tell us again, what is it like to have you own parliament overruled by foreign power.
As a vassal nation, I cannot call Spain a sovereign nation,
you do not control your own destiny, that is done by Brussels.
Yours is just the mewling of a vassal, who looks on with envy
at people who have control of they own destiny.
Just raise your fists and rattle your chains!
If that business was relying on cheap labor in order to make a profit, it's better not to exist.
This is what all these mongols dont get..people here asleep.
Capitalists are finally realising that the main reason they make money is on the back of the labour of their workers, not because of their own genius and hard work.
They will never realise this. Not if they took lessons. They'd die of ignorance first.
When you will realise that those workers struggle in their own countries (this is why come in UK) because lack in some areas like skilled capitalist to mention one of them
I'm telling you as non british and antbrexit person
If farming was any capitalistic - there would be NO FARMING in UK at least from 80's - due to subsidizing ...
@@therzook They are private enterprises still
Anyway, there is no much time till those workers will be replaced with AI machines so socialist ca be happy as no woorkers will be exploited, i bet they will ask for machines rights to be respected!
When Brexit leads to a socialist revolution now the neo liberal EU has lost power
It's a shame no-one warned the Brexiteers about this
OH WAIT, EVERYONE TOTALLY DID!
So you like a trade deficit of £95billion with the EU was good for the UK?? I can tell you know nothing about economics let alone politics!
@@johnallen7807 Better than the hundreds of billions we now have to pay to replace those EU systems with our own inferior ones while now not being able to sell our products. Also, we now have to leave our borders open to imports while not being able to export so we can do basic things like eat. Yeah that'll help the deficit. FFS.
@@kciparchive Sorry, I don't think so, Blair gave away half of it for the reform of the CAP which is course never happened. The EU only makes up 15% of our total trade anyway but trade was never the main point, it was about running our own country with our own elected representatives who have the power to make the laws we tell them to make not like the 60% and rising that were dictated to us by the EU, a fact you Remainiacs keep forgetting or don't you believe in democracy??
@@kciparchive Most of the EU's standards - particularly in food safety were copied from UK regulations. We were in a huge trade deficit with the EU before Brexit Look it up. You are a complete muppet and know next to nothing about economics.
What was they warned about, no one can predict any outcome, as for the aussie deal, winners and losers, but ultimately a deal is done, if you feel the need to make sure our farms don't lose out, then make sure you buy British, its that simple, plus there are other things in the deal, like 80 tons of sugar, so do you want to buy eu sugar after they decimated our sugar industry, we went from exporting hundreds of thousand tons of sugar, to now importing around 250,000 tons, I am guessing that fact slipped your remaining mind, so now with the aussie deal that's less we need to buy from the eu.
What he meant to say is, he can no longer pay peanuts for cheap labour
OH NO! Now you have to pay a LIVING WAGE! Horrors!
Small minded UK farmer destroys decades old successful business over tory stories of EU boogyman, and of course the increasing list of other businesses he and his ilk have helped ruin, so well done, you won. lol
Its ok. They have got a great trade deal with Australia...... well.... they have a trade deal anyway.
@@SirHaroldMaguire Yes, and that deal will kill off what remains of the UK agriculture business. :D
I bet you don't even cut your own lawn.
@@tanja8907 no he will get a farmer to do it in future ..........for less than the eastern european was doing it for ................
the irony is that these farmers and growers grew their business because of being in the EU, and despite how often remain said that it will have a huge effect on your ability to grow and pick, and also export.
I volunteer to pick strawberries for £100 per hour with all the strawberries I can eat as part of the employment package :)
what about benefits?
@@tillabakos2248 yeah.. a company car and private medical insurance
Don’t forget the coffee machine
Diversity is good, diversity is strength and diversity has blessed us with slavery pay rates
You mean "national workers didn't accept low wages so we had to use cheap labour?"
I am so full of Schadenfreude over these exceptionalistic, arrogant english and welsh that voted "Leave" Wonderful.
The "Last year I employed 35 *English* people..." comment shows his inner thoughts perfectly. A slip to be sure, but a telling one.
I was thinking exactly the same….why say English and not British. It’s little Englander mentality that is so small minded and short sighted and just plain dumb. He bitched and moaned about the EU seemingly oblivious to its benefits directly to his business, not just the cheap EU workers but also the financial support the EU gave to farms like his. Yes we paid a lot into the EU but compared to what we got back it was a bloody good deal.
But then I suppose it’s like the the song says “…..you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone….” And Brexiteers really have paved paradise to put up a parking lot (see Kent and all the lorry parks 😂🤣)
Maybe they were English lads? We do tend to use the individual countries of the union when talking about people.
@@Believe-you-me- - I can't say I've heard the reverse up in Scotland ( "Scottish lads" ) but I'll accept that as a more local cultural thing. It does illustrate a willingness to segregate "different" people just a bit, regardless.
@@frankiebegbie why is that a bad thing?
@@arghjayem Yeah, he said "English" and not "British" but what he really meant was "white".
Can't believe this bloke still plays the old record of "unelected EU bureaucrats telling us what to do..."
I hope he's happy now with his suvvrintee.
And the EU was never run from Luxembourg anyway!
@@jimthorne304 Don't confuse the quitters with facts. :-)
When was the last level toon for head of state, I must have missed it and how about House of Lords, when where they electing them, and how about proportional elections, when where the latest one. How com the word Gerrymandering isn’t even a word in a lot of languages, impossible to translate without a long explanation. Most people in the U.K. don’t even know that their representatives in the EU parliament belonged to a the far right coalition with small nazi and facists parties plus Polands ultra conservative right extremist Catholic ruling party. I tell you EU never want the U.K. as an entity back. Some well chosen parts of it but not all and not as an unit.
Did everyone in Britain Elect Boris for PM? Or was he placed there by his peers??
@@colconn57 He remains in power thanks to Unicorn committee and the good will of Britannia 👍 Who needs a democracy anyway 😉
Awww no. Never in my life did I think a politician would not keep their word or misrepresent facts. Truly shocked.
It's your time to shine, english people! Chop chop! 🙂
No sympathy with the second guy; he voted for it.
the first guy though he sounds like he didn't vote for it so i have sympathy for him
Raise your wages. If that's not possible then it's not a viable business.
Sure. It will be replaced by cheaper import
The subsidised prices in the shop won't pay the wages in the field..
If the tax situation in the country was more efficient. We wouldn't have to pay a usless civil service to do sweet fanny Addams and keep making a balls up of that n all. With a reduced tax burden we can all live better live on less and increase wages. But the chiseling Bastard's doing nothing at town hall just keep funding ways to increase their pensions and wage's to well beyond acceptable to us.. look at all the high street shops about to close. Jobs gone never to return.
All three major parties are Yahoo's with balloons and in office did zero for the last 60 years..
A reform party NEEDS to emerge
@@johnnorris1983 I get what you are saying, but years of reducing taxes have led to such inadequate income to council and civil budgets which mean vital services are overstretched and underfunded. NHS, elderly care, schools, roads, you name it..... Not sure what the solution is but I am not convinced that it's even more tax cuts.
Sorry, typo crept in . " I am not convinced that it is " even more tax cuts" that will solve things.
@Pingu Penguin
we pay for services we can’t access
We pay for decisions that a blind donkey with no training can do better.
Now I’m shure you can try to convince me that all the hard working staff inside council offices are doing beneficial work. But the lease fair needs to happen as we can’t afford the dismissal results…..
As an eastern European, I'm glad all those other eastern Europeans will be available for work back home. It's a win-win this Brexit thing, right? We get our work force back, you get your jobs back. Everybody wins.
Im a Brit.
Ive applied for seasonal fruit picking jobs..... And being turned down.
Other times, because I dont need their on site housing and catering that is deducted out of the wage at source the pay offered has been slave wage. They expect you to work for nothing.
If they paid the living wage, Im sure a lot of Brits would jump at the jobs.
All the European kids do it backpacking in oz and nz so I think your right there if it was packaged presented and ran right..they bitched a lot but carried on ...good way to fund UNI
But when farmers were told this would happen it was dismissed as project fear.
No offense but how is this a bad thing,they need to pay decent wages
@@tobiisiba1641 Brexit was always mainly 2 things: i, Free market, disaster capitalism & ii, promotion of the agenda via rightist populism. Fair/decent/living wages were never the concern of Gove et al. The brexit paradox is that any govt capable of delivering brexit wouldn't and an electorate clever enough to decode brexit would reject it.
@@michaelmouse4024
So many parallels with "other issues" in the last 18 months?
They couldn't organise a < > in a (Insert suitable vernacular as you see fit)
@@rogerstarkey5390 'party' in a 'beerkeller'? or 'fight' in a 'portsmouth pub' or 'traffic jam' on 'London Bridge'
@@tobiisiba1641 you need to look at the basics: demand and supply. Basically any wage raises are just temporary boost - because the prices will have to rise - the producers won't be able to provide as much for the same time. In short this can cause some businesses to close, because they won't be profitable. People - yes will earn more (if the place where they work isn't closed)- but they will also have to pay more for other things.
Project Fear, amirite? I have no sympathy for any farmer who voted for Brexit.
But instead, all sympathy goes to those who voted against and are now suffering with the consequences.
Or fishermen
@@blqeddie2946 Indeedily do. No sympathy for either of them. Considering they'll still vote Tory.
@@StratosTitan Agreed.
They've not only kicked their own heads in, they've unfortunately kicked ours in too. Fucking Wankers.
* knock knock
- who's there?
* The consequences of your own actions.
What did the EU tell you to do? I dont recall luxembourg telling anyone anything.
Yes because they were too busy holding drunk Juncker up on his feet.
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
I played your other stupid game and got 300 Romanian unemployed families plopped into my local area I have to say I'll do without the strawberries.
Interesting to hear these winners of the referendum that got what they voted for complaining so much. The last guy here will be able to sell his farm to some Tory donors soon. Great future in some new occupation, I guess.
Shit Shovelling.
Fisheries?
Brexit again. Number of people unemployed in the UK 1971-2021. There were approximately 1.6 million unemployed people in the United Kingdom in the three months to April 2021. You would think a few months work would be great if you have no work, but why bother it takes times to get back into the benefits system.
Land grab by some people, rich ones. In a few years they will defend that the UK needs to go "back to the single market" and voila, the price of the land goes up again.
Two people. Jesus christ. You people are so... strange.
That's what happens when you relie on foreign workers, tough shit pal.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Funny on the one hand where he said oh yes I’m voting to liberate Britain and then five minutes later he saying where have all my cheap labour gone?
The arrogance of David in that video in 2019.... I bet he feels stupid now.
He did say in the video, "personally, it's a disaster!"
That's the moronic and avoidable side to all this nonsense. As for the country, English industry is finished! Brexit is the final nail in an already well nailed coffin! This is where ignorance, prejudice and short-sightedness leads.
@@utubecomment21 you said it perfectly
Dont blame brexit... blame eu and your own country's stupid immigration policies.... i guess your poor favored immigrants from the middle east and africa dont want to work in farms..... they just want to receive their welfare benefits .... you people should have opened your immigration to hard working eastern europeans instead...
Nah, stupid people always think they are the smartest
Remind us who voted for Brexit again? That's right the farming and fishing communities. You get what you deserve.
The idiocy is off the scale unmeasurable.
The big problem is the "benefit system " .........actually low wage workers are coming fom africa and camel land but those are housed in 4* hotels and 3-4 bedroom houses (guess on who's expenses ) and aren't put to work and pay for what they get !
@@attilathehun181 If they are working, then it will be on their own money. They aren't on benefits and working simultaneously, unless they are working illegally. If that's the case then the onus is on the employer for paying these people illegally. Think you are confusing the situation of asylum seekers entering the country and being housed in hotels and hostels whilst they are being processed with people entering the country for legal low paid unskilled work.
This argument was about Europe too, so bringing in African migrants into the debate is a totally different matter. Here we are talking about EU citizens who were up until the point of Brexit legally allowed to enter the UK and work here.
Now that we have left Europe, the French no longer have to protect our border, so we are seeing a lot more asylum seekers coming across the channel in small boats. The irony of people voting to leave Europe to stop illegal immigration and in doing so make illegal immigration worse.
Diversity is good, diversity is strength and diversity has blessed us with slavery pay rates
This guy was like a turkey voting for christmas. Well done dude.
Well myself and many friends tried to apply for fruit and veg picking but we were told that all the places were filled and we will get back to you... And they never have!
It's like watching a slow motion train crash. I wonder how long it will be before those orchards become housing estates.
I this rather funny, they voted for Brexit and now are complaining of the consequence of voting the way they did. This lack of seasonal labor is also a problem here in the United States and we block migrant farmworkers and then complain that they cannot get Americans to fill the gap. So, this short-sightedness will simply create very expensive food prices and food shortages. Similar issues between both countries, they tried to eliminate low cost labor and now they cannot get the work done that they need to do. Technology isn't going to save anyone this time, as we still cannot do labor-intensive work, like picking strawberries and the like. They really need to seriously look at the big picture instead of the political parties being so short-sighted.
I don't think it's funny.. I think it's sad what the UK has done.... We have besmudged our name...
The only thing that has blocked workers coming over is COVID.
Yeh! Its funny how dump people are!
@@peterah7957 That already happened a long time ago, UK has been on a steady decline for probably 200 or so years now. (Economically that is)
Hundreds of thousands of people are pouring over the southern border this year. How do say the U. S. Has “stopped” migrant farm workers? The Biden admin is encouraging mass immigration. Only shortage of labor in U.S. is due to Democrats paying people not to work. Educate yourself.
What he means is all of his cheap workers have gone. If the wages are right it will attract locals and we’ll just have to accept higher prices in supermarkets.
Rebalancing the local economy can be a painful transition, but necessary. The business owners had 5 years notice to sort out their workforce. Poor management makes for a poor business.
So, moral of the story, don't base your business on cheap imported labour.
or cheap labour in general - imagine how many jobs we could eliminate and how much profit could be siphoned off to the owners if we just automated all those jobs away.
And all those bloody remoaners complaining that there's no upside to this - bloody great for me - I own loads of shares in those types of companies - I'm going to make a mint!
@@5ynthesizerpatel Rakesh there is a minimum wage or hourly rate the employer must give to the employees by law. There is no "cheap" labour.
@@Lacipecsenye1 - well the inital outlay for puchasing the automation that will replace workers isn't cheap - and the small number of skilled workers required to maintain it will command reasonably high pay - but if it can eliminate tens or hundreds of thousands of jobs that you're forced to pay even low or minimum wage for, then what was paid out to workers can go straight to shareholders instead - bonus!
This was always the Brexit endgame - creative destruction - create a massive market shock which sends old inefficient businesses to the wall - which can then be bought up cheap by bigger businesses who can then apply more modern business practices to them to eliminate jobs and increase profits for shareholders.
Stroke of genius if you ask me.
@@5ynthesizerpatel I assume goal is then that fishermen a farmers would be replaced by giant trawlers and US style hormone pumped meat factories. Definitely stroke of genius especially when UK will catch up with US levels of salmonella and food poisoning.
@@anthavio they don’t CARE about public health they are TORIES! And the UK is already racing towards US levels of obesity so why not match levels of salmonella poisoning too.
No. Sympathy. At. All. That last guy is the reason I want an independent Scotland. There's an army of him. They all wanted and voted to kill their income and their businesses. Fine. It's when they kill other people's livelihood that I get angry.
@@JG-ge3ui in overall reference to Brexit. Lots of jobs at risk due to Brexit, not just farming.
@@SGrahamArt lots of people pissing their pants over not a lot as well.
Calm down and carry on.
And if Scotland got independence you would of automatically left the eu, so to say you wanted to remain is a dumb lie youre telling yourself.
Did they think the British will seriously do that job 😂😂😂😂
There is a big factor here and it is the supermarkets. They have a huge say in what a farmer makes. They say they will pay X for a product the farmer has to predict what they want months in advance. And at any point, the supermarkets can come over and say yeah we will be buying your stuff for X-5% next year. Oh and we are running a sale so we need them for Y for this month. If you don't accept it we will just go somewhere else.
This results in farms looking for cheaper ways to operate, which over time results in eastern Europeans being the default workers being charged pennies thanks to loopholes where they can pay them less because a shake is provided.
The issue is highlighted because of Brexit but it is not caused because of Brexit.
At the end of the say farmers need to charge more for their crops, supermarkets and we need to accept that because it is either that or nothing.
They had 5 years to prepare for this!
Ah, farmers should be spending evenings designing soft fruit picking robots? Brilliant!
Ah Patricia, preparing isn't the problem. If there is a shortage of workers they import those workers. However, even when all out of work workers would live in the UK, you haven't got a hope in hell to recruit them. Travelling to where those jobs are is not in the British DNA. Let others do those pesky jobs, you are too well educated to do menial jobs, like shovelling shit, take care of your elderly, picking fruits, slaughter chickens, and all those other jobs needed to have a society.
Joke is on you.
5 years to replace most of your workforce when the british people dont want to do it themselves what option is left invent agriculture robots to pick it instead. I dont know if you watched the full video but intelligence wasnt the first thing that came to mind to be honest.
Just because you have time doesn't mean a feasible solution exists.
Wages are the problems,
Go the Norwegian way where a cucumber is so expensive that they’re sold in seperate parts. It’s a matter of wages.
Okay, Britain will be so bloody expensive that no tourist will dare to come for holidays, but you got your will.
You’re masters in your own house. Enjoy it. You had it your way.
norway sucks !
@@rytiskurcinskas7179 No, no ..... Norwegian FOOD sucks (and is still eye-wateringly expensive). Norway as a country is fantastically beautiful.
Really!!!??? 😳 Here in Mexico a 1kg cucumber is 0.50 dollar.
@@xinnasinpatria3202
I just found some prices for you:
1 cucumber ....... $ 2.10
1 liter milk ..........$ 2.10
12 eggs ..............$ 4.30
1 Beer ................$ 4.50
1 kilo apples .....$ 3.30
If you’re ever going to Norway, bring a lunchbox. 😂
So I'm guessing Norwegian farmers are jonesin for that automation magic the UK govmt is holding out for then!
Well, this made me smile. Were you really thinking that this will be the status quo. Man, the audacity of this people :)
We live in a country whose leaders have constantly allowed people to live on benefits as a lifestyle choice. WhenThere is a large pool of permanently unemployed fit and able people available, why are we being told there are not enough fruit pickers, and lorry drivers? Time to think the unthinkable?
Yep, send the unemployed non-Eton riffraff on the fields to pick the vegs for the Tory masters!
'....this is all a bit of a mess'. That you helped create, son.
I really have a hard time understanding people willingly sabotaging their own livelihood.
I can understand not everybody being well informed about every aspect of modern society, but how can you be so ignorant about how your own business works?
Starting to think that there is something in the water over on the Island.
Like a lot of people, they were promised so much their greed overrode their common sense.
I mean, that was some campaign. They actually convinced people who’s businesses revolve around freedom of movement to end freedom of movement.
thenickwilsonexperience but how did they con them but not others, I mean I'm not necessarily an expert but I knew it was a massive swindle.
@@lynnevenables7193 Anyone with common sense has long realized BREXIT was not going to work, and would cause much damage. Here it is.
@@peterwoods5310 That is just the beginning !!.
One guy said 'what do we get' from EU membership, he wanted out.
Well i say, you get the same as Germany, France, Italy, Spain etc get.
500 million customers for your produce.
this happens when stupid people decide they go solo in world where everybody is connecting.
no it isn't lol how many EU countries "rely" on UK workers?? NONE! We have plenty of people to do these jobs.....the UK is a walk over and that is why no one works, you get more money for not working. its nothing to do with not wanting to be in the EU. EU sucks
@@ChrisLaw84 what you just said seems delusional to me. but you enjoy your solo ride, i really dont care what happens to you brits. you will pay more then half of your salary for foods, but thats fine, you will produce less pollution.
@@krazy.88 I’m rich I don’t care