People Being Flown In To Pick Crops.....

[Zacs-Master]

Eastern Europeans to be flown in to pick fruit and veg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52293061

I suppose they have no alternative. Brits will demand wages which would make the produce unsaleable (especially to supermarkets), I assume?

Thoughts?

[roslyn251254]

Thanks for that fiction-factory

[sevenOP]

The discussion got onto wages fiction- factor as that is what people 'Being Flown In To Pick Crops' will hopefully get.

The National Living Wage applies to over 25 year olds, otherwise the minimum wage applies:

25 and over 21 to 24 18 to 20 Under 18 (Apprentice)
April 2020 (current rate) £8.72 £8.20 £6.45 £4.55 £4.15

[fiction-factory]

yes. so as you said earlier that's more than dole money.

[sevenOP]

Bottom line is, until the classist, breadist-from-the-circus, placation, artificial farce depressed pay scale is made real they will need these imports.

[Zacs-Master]

Oooh a student of Juvenal.

[sevenOP]

What does "a student of Juvenal" mean Zacs-Master ?

[Zacs-Master]

I thought your breadist/circus comment referred to the poet Juvenal. It seems I was mistaken.

[sevenOP]

Indeed Zacs, you were wrong. I was not referring to Juvenalis bread and games of 2000 years ago, but to our modern expectations of a multitude of food and drinks and entertainment. Oooooooh, smileyface, hashtag, comfortable me...

[Zacs-Master]

Well, thank goodness your allowed to express your opinions so freely, eh.