I wouldn't think there was much call for that these days as most folk have central heating and those that do have open fires mainly have lined flues that would be to small for them to get up so you will have to think of something else to install some work ethic in them, any ideas ?I, Daniel Blake.
And while we're at it, let's send kids up chimneys again.
I'd wager that after 48 hours of their company , the Perthshire berry producer would be mulling over alternative projects for his fruit farm.Let the jobless (those receiving benefits) pick fruit says Perthshire berry producer.
Yip the European fruit pickers that came and boosted the rural economy are not coming.
So what to do?
If you could police the food banks so the lazy didnt get fed perhaps we could starve them into workI like the theory and have suggested that the able bodied jobless should be forced to work at below a minimum wage rate.
But how do you get these lazy junky b@$t@rd$ to work if they won't get out of their beds before the day is almost over.
Paid 25p for punnets of Class 1 raspberries. This week at wholesalers.
Its too cheap, get picking rates of pay up a bit, I think people will do it.
Biggest problem is snobbery. We need a culture of pride in working & try to get a way from this "I'm above that type of work".
I have 7 O levels & I'm reasonably well off but I'm happy to harvest crops by hand, why the stigma?
I, Daniel Blake.
And while we're at it, let's send kids up chimneys again.
Now THAT is a great idea. (And I was not aware of that, jumping wrongly to the conclusion that it was a 'get those scroungers off benefits' suggestion.) Thanks for the correctionWhat the grower said was she wanted politicians to look at making it possible for those on benefits to be able to take on casual work without the threat of having their payments immediately cancelled.
That is so true, in the 90's we had Eastern Europeans working for us and they said they would be able to buy a house and a car for one Autumns potato / Veg grading.Before criticizing the work ethic of young British employees as opposed to their Eastern European counterparts, people should consider that (in the main), the wages earned by immigrants are going to be spent in a much lower cost economy than this one and therefore have a much higher value to them.
When I was involved in fruit growing , we had girls in the packhouse earning , on piecework, the equivalent of a months wages back home, PER DAY!
This situation is gradually changing within the poorer countries of the EU. Cost of living is inevitably rising and with a fall in the value of the £/Euro their wages are worth less. They will not bother to come here on the same terms as they did whether we stop them or not, it is a natural phenomenon.That is so true, in the 90's we had Eastern Europeans working for us and they said they would be able to buy a house and a car for one Autumns potato / Veg grading.
The car, they bought here, were all the old Moskvich and Skoda models nobody would touch with a bargepole. The house they bought in their home town for the same sort of money. And they lived mainly on the waste veg they were sorting out! They thought they were rolling in money. The clever ones of course picked up an English farmer as well Not me
This. Everything was harvested by UK workers up till the Tony Blair years, when everyone had to go to uni to gain an 'olygy. You could see it was a generational thing. Parents happy to work, kids mouched about with baseball caps and fiddled with their phones Meanwhile produce prices remain stuck in the '70's ( along with wages ).Paid 25p for punnets of Class 1 raspberries. This week at wholesalers.
Its too cheap, get picking rates of pay up a bit, I think people will do it.
Biggest problem is snobbery. We need a culture of pride in working & try to get a way from this "I'm above that type of work".
I have 7 O levels & I'm reasonably well off but I'm happy to harvest crops by hand, why the stigma?
This. Everything was harvested by UK workers up till the Tony Blair years, when everyone had to go to uni to gain an 'olygy. You could see it was a generational thing. Parents happy to work, kids mouched about with baseball caps and fiddled with their phones Meanwhile produce prices remain stuck in the '70's ( along with wages ).
" Slaves " will just have to be sourced from other third world countries, if this is how food production is going to continue.