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Why won’t Brits pick vegetables for £30 an hour?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lowland1" data-source="post: 7801006" data-attributes="member: 66524"><p>I grow 1000 acres of broccoli. I have some very good pickers I can tell you that harvesting broccoli is not an easy job it’s very hard further more it isn’t an unskilled task it’s a very skilled. My workers are very good at it because we are picking 52 weeks of the year in the UK it’s seasonal and possibly by the end of the season someone might be good enough to get to the mythical 30 pounds and hour but then what do you do out of season. I can send 50 people capable of doing this tomorrow and after six months they will come home with more money than they could dream of so they build a house or buy some land or a car or start a business. They aren’t going to be claiming asylum or running away because believe it or not the UK isn’t the promised land. Or alternatively I’ll keep sending the broccoli.</p><p>What the UK is seeing is the affect of a declining birth rate and an aging population factors that were temporarily mitigated by being in the EU. You can sort it for a while by cutting benefit and raising wages but there just aren’t enough workers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lowland1, post: 7801006, member: 66524"] I grow 1000 acres of broccoli. I have some very good pickers I can tell you that harvesting broccoli is not an easy job it’s very hard further more it isn’t an unskilled task it’s a very skilled. My workers are very good at it because we are picking 52 weeks of the year in the UK it’s seasonal and possibly by the end of the season someone might be good enough to get to the mythical 30 pounds and hour but then what do you do out of season. I can send 50 people capable of doing this tomorrow and after six months they will come home with more money than they could dream of so they build a house or buy some land or a car or start a business. They aren’t going to be claiming asylum or running away because believe it or not the UK isn’t the promised land. Or alternatively I’ll keep sending the broccoli. What the UK is seeing is the affect of a declining birth rate and an aging population factors that were temporarily mitigated by being in the EU. You can sort it for a while by cutting benefit and raising wages but there just aren’t enough workers. [/QUOTE]
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