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Another Brexit Benefit You May Have Missed
This Nottinghamshire fruit farm was producing about 800 tonnes of soft fruits, employing up to 140 workers (mostly from the EU).
Thanks to Brexit, they can no longer attract the workers.
Ms Starky (the farm’s sales director) said ‘We have sold our growing frames abroad, so perhaps in Romania or somewhere they are growing strawberries for our supermarkets with our frames, which is ironic.’
You can bet all such farms throughout the UK are facing the same problem due to Brexit.
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Thanks to Brexit, they can no longer attract the workers.
Ms Starky (the farm’s sales director) said ‘We have sold our growing frames abroad, so perhaps in Romania or somewhere they are growing strawberries for our supermarkets with our frames, which is ironic.’
You can bet all such farms throughout the UK are facing the same problem due to Brexit.
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//You can bet all such farms throughout the UK are facing the same problem due to Brexit.//
Then they will have to improve their pay and conditions to attract staff (perhaps with assistance from the government who can help by making it less attractive to sit at home watching the telly instead of going to work). After all, they've both had seven years to prepare.
You still don't seem to understand (or perhaps understand but don't accept) that the idea of Brexit was to change things, not to keep them the same. One of the most important things that required changing was to wean UK businesses off their dependence on cheap imported labour.
In any case, the farm in question could have taken advantage of the Seasonal Workers visa scheme. Last year 38,000 visas were available so I'm sure they could have got the 140 they needed if there was nobody in the Nottingham area sufficiently qualified to pick strawberries.
Then they will have to improve their pay and conditions to attract staff (perhaps with assistance from the government who can help by making it less attractive to sit at home watching the telly instead of going to work). After all, they've both had seven years to prepare.
You still don't seem to understand (or perhaps understand but don't accept) that the idea of Brexit was to change things, not to keep them the same. One of the most important things that required changing was to wean UK businesses off their dependence on cheap imported labour.
In any case, the farm in question could have taken advantage of the Seasonal Workers visa scheme. Last year 38,000 visas were available so I'm sure they could have got the 140 they needed if there was nobody in the Nottingham area sufficiently qualified to pick strawberries.
Hardly thanks to Brexit. It is thanks to their inability to offer attractive terms to local workers to pick fruit. Something they failed in before Brexit, and had worked around by importing foreign labour who were happy with undercutting the UK market rate that would attract pickers. Maybe they never had a viable business to start with.
Change brings disruption so a temporary hit to the economy was expected, however the economy seems to be doing better than the EU average at present, so the implication is that Brexit, far from being a drag, must be helping out economy; and any economic issues, as they affect all, stem from other global activity. In any case it's fairly obvious that any outstanding Brexit issues is down to external countries hoping for advantage; and in particular, the EU, having had it's nose put out of joint, deliberately being awkward and intransigent in order to try to a) have a go at those with the courage to leave, and b) dissuade other members from following suit. Such is the exposed nature of the Commission.
However this farm (in the link kindly supplied by the op) just down the road in Norfolk, is expanding it's strawberry farm after winning a planning battle with it's local authority to do so. When we have weaned out the weak businesses, that relied on cheap labour to operate, our economy will once more be on solid foundations instead of the false conditions created by the Eeeyoo ponzi scheme. I recently drove from N.Wales to The Devonshire Hams and back. It was striking to see miles and miles of fertile land all planted and growing crops that were thriving in our wonderful climate. I have done the same, or similar, drive for some 50 years now and never seen the fields so extensively cultivated. We are no longer to be held hostage to the supply chain, and it's conditions, imposed by foreign powers for our food or National safety and trade routes.
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Whenever I post one of the thousands of Brexit benefits the UK has suffered, I’m expecting the Brexiteers to post an equal number of Brexit success stories – such as a printing firm that is printing millions upon millions of export control documents (for exports to the EU), that are to be filled in, in triplicate; or some UK bankruptcy practice that has seen a surge business due to farms going bust (but they never do – strange that).
From the Brexiteer posts, it does indeed appear that those voting for Brexit voted to be poorer and the country to suffer significant economic damage.
From the Brexiteer posts, it does indeed appear that those voting for Brexit voted to be poorer and the country to suffer significant economic damage.
Ok this is the last time I will respond to any o your brexit posts. You have been given the answers a 1000 times you just ignore them and drone on with your propaganda videos. The judge has probably written enough to fill a book on this, yet none of it goes in. So enjoy your repetitive moans, I'm out on this subject. If you have the capacity to entertain another subject then I'd be happy to contribute if I can. I urge others to do the same. Then gulliver and hymie can entertain each other with their BS.
finally people are realising what a waste of space on here these two trolls are...
you might as well speak to a piece of stone as youll probably get more response...they arent interested in discussion, its plainly obvious they are insecure and need others to agree with them to feel better about themselves....
sooner they both trot off and seek medical help the better off they'll be..
you might as well speak to a piece of stone as youll probably get more response...they arent interested in discussion, its plainly obvious they are insecure and need others to agree with them to feel better about themselves....
sooner they both trot off and seek medical help the better off they'll be..
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