Post-Brexit: Businesses hit by labour shortages call for Brexit rules to be relaxed
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- As the UK economy begins the long road to recovery, many businesses are wondering: where have all the workers gone?
Covid has seen hundreds of thousands of employees lose or leave their jobs, and in many cases leave the country altogether. From farms to factories and hospitality to haulage, many industries are warning they won't be able to bounce back unless Brexit rules on workers are relaxed.
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I don't see why are people complaining. They've got exactly what they voted for
They were expecting the much cheaper work slaves from the common wealth countries.
yeah a higher wage
But lets be forgiving as the Pope taught us.
If Brits will call me again and give me 20Ł per hour, I will consider fly to their island and working for them again.
Whos complaining? Channel 4? Shock!
@@brettharter143 you haven't seen the video, have you ?
I remember driving through several local rural areas and some further afield during the Brexit Campaign Season. Without fail, farmers fields had often quite large official “Vote Leave” placards. It was an impressive display of Great British Pluck from our sons and daughters of the soil.
Of course, following the vote they immediately hit their respective panic buttons because their CAP funds were now in serious jeopardy!
“Don’t worry about it” said the Tory Landed Elites and their NFU mouthpieces: the Urban Plebs who voted leave rather like Lemmings charging headlong over The White Cliffs of Dover will bail you out: and lo! Behold it all came to pass.
However, our agricultural masterminds also failed to factor in the scenario that tens of thousands of seasonal workers, predominantly from Eastern European countries, would decide that working the fields of bosses who evidently couldn’t stand the sight of them, and spending their hard earned wages in rural communities that openly despised them were no longer worth the effort. At least for the foreseeable future.
“Don’t worry,” said the ingenious rural Brexit lobbyists: “we have tens of thousands of currently unemployed British Workers who cannot wait to fill the gaps!”
“But they are a bunch of lazy bastards!” Spake the Farmers: “They want more money, longer breaks, sick pay and are not exactly queuing up to work the lands!”
But at least we are now the masters of our own destiny: no longer slaves of the European Tzars who threatened our very way of life.
I just wish the farmers would stop bitching for five minutes. There’s just no pleasing some people is there?
And here endeth today's lesson.
Tomorrow: Fishing for Fun and Profit in post-Brexit Britain.
@Lick The Wrapper You didn't read it because you can't read you moron!
@Lick The Wrapper maybe you should, maybe you would learn something for once in your miserable life.
Great post! 👍🏼
Actually the NFU official position was remain.
People are starting to realise that all these rich well off people have got their luxury lifestyle not via their own ability but on the backs of the people who are actually working hard for low wages 😳
And now they are crying nobody in their own country wants their low paying jobs. 😂😂😂 britain is the joke of the 21st century and im having the time of my life 😂😂😂
or stole it, or changed rules to suit a few, etc....
@@MM-wu2we such as the immigration rules.
So brits finally got their jobs back, why aren’t they taking it? :D
They won't take it since its hardwork.
@@marktrinidad7650 I'm a Filipino though. Can I take it?!
Bcoz it's not a job for a "boss".
They do not want small or low ranking jobs.
Cause they're used to exploit others to work for them.
@@invinciblecucumber what a stupid comment
Brexit voters “foreigners get out of my country. You are driving down wages”
Also Brexit voters “why won’t foreign workers come and work for me, I need cheap, hard-working labour”
"why won’t foreign workers come and work for me, I need cheap, hard-working labour" is what remoaners want and you know it.
@MR .TEA. The single largest determining factor in wage suppression is right wing Brexiteer advocation of the systematic dismantling of collective wage bargaining, not supply and demand as many of the wage suppressing, shareholding foreign billionaire, pro-Brexit peddling, media ruling class will have you believe. If supply and demand influenced wage growth, teachers, doctors and nurses would be on 6 figure salaries.
@Cucking Funt not true at all, I own a business and employ around 20 staff. I would love to pay them more and I think we should be. FYI I will be charging you more Cucking Funt because I will need to pay them more - which I’m sure you will have no problems with! Simples!
@Cucking Funt I’ll try and explain this as simple as possible, as you seem very clued in… if the basic costs go up across the board, prices rise across the board (it’s called inflation). Believe it or not it still rises even if, as you say, an expert on gocompare! 😂
@Cucking Funt Mate there’s honestly no point in me trying to explain because your clearly already an expert and I can’t be bothered educating you. BTW I’m also a millennial 😂😂😂 Nice one. Not sure what age has to do with this, but whatever floats your boat. Take it easy
All those fishermen will make awesum crop pickers...
They have sealegs, the land be too stable for them.
@@stopthecensure6349 Also, they're currently fishing for sympathy
😂😂
Most of the fishermen I know are a bit too heavy set to be good pickers ,the best of them are lithe .
And later when farming is run into the ground, they can all go work in Tim Martin's pubs.
The meme "all of the foreigners have gone away now daddy, how come you still don't have a job" springs to mind.
When we voted to leave we had 3.7% unemployment, if you didn’t have a job you were unemployable.
@@andrew30m wrong. we had 3.4% unemployment with 8m people 'economically inactive'. now add the pandemic numbers + brexit and you've got the a figure that more accurately represents the state of the economy. tl;dr around 12%
@@scheisskommandant3700 wrong actually the number is 5.8% thanks :)
Much like restaurants here... it is not a shortage... but a business model built on underpaying the people who do the actual work realizing they don't have easily exploitable pool any more.
The people who frequent these establishments are usually from the higher paid sections of society and would not let their sons or daughters work in those conditions and take the abuse from their customers for the low levels of pay
@@andrewkenny4633 Plenty restaurants have Brits in them, they just don't stick around.
Exactly. My 13 years working as a Chef in many London Hotels, Restaurants and Casinos was spent working with mostly Europeans. The Chefs were mostly from UK but I've never seen a British waiter in any of the places I worked in. The staff were almost always Spanish, Portuguese, Italian or French.
The thing is the workers from other European countries are being payed better than work back home, the UK employers are paying minimum-ish wage compared to UK workers. The EU was a win-win for both parties, no?
100% true .
"Lack of drivers" you say? How is that possible in "Brexit-land"? I thought that driving a lorry was "a dream come true" for every English person....
@Lee harry enty Well weren't all the EU workers stealing *your* jobs? Go get them!
@Lee harry enty he's obviously being sarcastic, you must not be very English
Oh, yes. That is a well know English adage that dates back to the time of Queen Elizbeth I
Brexiteers are so dumb they don't even understand sarcasm!!!
An English man wants to be either behind a screen or in front of a wheel. I am not stereotyping, people say that :)
This is what Tim Martin campaigned for, what leavers voted for, what they said they understood and now, somehow it is somebody else's fault.
I blame people who voted for leave.
But the government can set it's own targets for migrant labour, I'm sure if the employers pay a fair wage we can still attract workers as we need them, seems to work quite well in Australia
@MR .TEA. Trouble is most of the things you mentioned aren't EU related just poor UK govt decisions. The leavers put the blame on EU for govt failings
The governments of the day were happy to let the EU take the blame for their own failings.
They kept passing the blame when it suited - only for it to come back and bite Cameron's backside in 2016.
Now we all have to pay the price.
What a tangled web we weave in order to deceive.
@@run2cat4run I blame democracy
Get Farage, Banks, Keys and the gang to sort it all out ?
Has anybody seen any of them ?
Yes floating in the pan ,a bit of domestos and a good flush sent them packing .
I've seen Farage in the RUclips ads shilling his latest scam. And selling messages on Cameo.
They are plaguing the internet with promises to financial investors of the best advice available
Don’t forget Cameron!
It would be indeed nice if those were held accountable.
But do you really want them to sort this out?
I don't know where all of them are now but i know Farage was interviewed by Fox News in the US. It seems there are still people he hasn't fooled yet.
So where are all of those estate warriors who were shouting that immigrants are taking their jobs ?? 😂😂 I do not feel sorry for all those farmers at all, biggest snobs in England
They're to fucking lazy, whose going to get the dole if they have a job
While you was claiming housing benefits and child allowance 🤣
And who’s going to pay for their dole?? Calling farmers snobs is a bit of a contradiction, considering that they are only trying to produce the food that you eat. Oh buy the way would you like to pay more for the food in your trolley? Then maybe the farmers could pay more for picking it. Farm gate price isn’t what you’re paying but the supermarket giants are cleaning up.
@@seanmcguigan346 I dunno about anybody else but personally I would rather pay a bit more for the food in my trolley if it means the people who helped get the food there in the first place are compensated fairly for their work. Farm labor is extremely hard work, you have to live in the middle of nowhere, and then they don't even pay you well for it. It's not surprising at all that British people won't take those jobs, they have much better alternatives. If you're going to earn minimum wage, may as well be a cashier for a big chain store or something which is comparatively extremely easy work, and the type of job you can get no matter where you want to live. The fact that farmers accuse British people of being afraid of hard work and stuff is just insulting - in reality they are just upset that they lost access to people who don't have any better options, and they wish that British people didn't have better options.
@@seanmcguigan346 maybe farmers in the UK should form an alliance then and open their own chain of supermarkets, they've probably got the money to do it, then the supermarkets can't dictate the price paid for their produce?
The Brexit Voters can come and pick all the fruit and vegetables
I would but I have a better paying job thanks to wage increase due to lack of labour 🤷♂️
Iam happy if it worked out for you
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They should be forced to pick all the veg.they voted for this mess to happen.
I tried to.. applied to loads of farms up and down the UK in the last few weeks.
Employ the Brexit voters, they voted for this! 🤣
Particularly the pad wearers. Make them retrain or take their State Pension away, and tax their assets.
Y’all do realize because of having too many people in the job market, it kept wages low but prices high. Now companies are going to be forced to increase wages. It’s simple economics dude.
@@Lilliz91 And the prices will be shifted on to the customers - the well off will not feel it but the poor will struggle.
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Yep, below minimal wage like the EU worker did ;-)
Brexiters: "immigrants are stealing our jobs"
Employers: "Ok here are plenty of jobs in logistics, hospitality and farming"
Brexiters: "No, I don't want those jobs"
British workers applied for farm work but were refused
Nothing more than prejudiced anti-working class bigotry. People would happily take those takes job if they paid a wage where you didn’t have to live with 9 other people in a two bedroom semi.
The return of slum landlords and exploitative employers. Welcome back Dickinson Britain.
Loool
@@vincentmckenna1755 is that what you believe 😂😂😂
@@maxpowerii7368 and some of those jobs do pay above the working wage but you think the english pubic want to work when thry don't have to loool. Half of them don't want to go school let alone work
And brexiteers will keep saying it is the Eu fault
Because they are THICK.
Edited: And having read some comments here, I believe they're THICKER than I thought.
@@florafauna5883 The arrogance of remain traitors, you can't make it up
@@florafauna5883 went shopping today didnt notice the food shortage. i have however noticed a housing shortage. 5.4 million people applied to stay after brexit.
@Adam lol and the UK government is working for the people?
Yes o😬😬😬😬😬
Who knew that social engineering based on xenophobia can be complicated?
Nice!
As an eastern European I'd like to say: Thank you BREXIT! For sending my countryman back home, so they can work here. I wish GB good fortune!
No problem Ted. All the best buddy
Yeah right..they only sent the ones without documents maybe..
@@alexpsk1784 Dude, 20 of my 24 schoolfriends working in England came back to homecoutnry bringing bags of money after 10-15 years of working there, now they don't think about going abroad since now in Poland they can work for 8-12 EUR per hour which is f-king a lot and gives them better life than 20EUR per hour in England.
@@krakendragonslayer1909 One of my colleague at work told me that recently...I told him I will consider following him lol. I think if you can have a better pay and live better in your country than there is nothing that can beat that.
@@og3139 But Britain has a wide moat, Polish moat is just Oder and Northern Bug rivers... no match for British one... being in Poland you never know when Germans will invade again
As a man from Bosnia working in Austria and Germany, I never understood why anybody in their right mind would want to go to the UK and work, where you are hated, paid less and have problems to obtain visa's. In Germany most people welcome you, jobs are all around and pay well, and its really easy to get a visa. NEVER go to the UK, even as a tourist I found it expensive, full of rain and clouds and bland. Holiday in Spain Italy and Greece. Ciao
I am with you. Forget England. Scotland is more hospitable. Hopefully it will become independent in a few years time and rejoin the EU.
You are more than welcome to either work, (although the unemployment rate is the highest in Europe and the wages are far lower than in Germany, but there are shortages of carpenters, electricians and construction workers) or enjoy your holidays in sunny Spain.
Personally I love the rain and clouds
Take back control of something you never lost and lose everything you ever had .
We never had control while in the EU
They should get people who have been on long-term benefits to do the work, otherwise everyone suffers because of losing control since leaving the EU.
@@utubebroadcaster We never had control in the EU
@@deanbryce8263 We literally were in control when we were in the EU, we were the decision makers at the top table.
Now we have no power, no influence are poorer, weaker, and still have to follow EU rules anyway.
Just admit you were scammed 🙄
@@Aarontlondon We had to follow EU rules, now we make our own
These "Brexiteers can work the farms" comments are cracking me up.
The problem is these same Brexiteers are probably too old(on average) to do so and will pass on the buck of picking fruits and veg to the "lazy" youngesters who didn't vote Brexit.
huma.
But they're not mate. According to polls it's mostly young people who can't find jobs. So now they can.
Before you comment: No. I am not old either.
There are some vids out there explaining why young people can't do it. Aside from their low efficiency compared to EU workers it is the distance from home to work. The old pickers used to live temporarily on the land in caravans and such. No transport cost. UK citizens however, live in a city/town. Therefore they have to bridge the distance to a field. There usually isn't any public transport in those agricultural areas, therefore they need a car. Fuel and a car consume your income before receiving it, bringing you into the negative. This is the reason it is not feasible with current wages.
Too old or too fat. You won't get the fat brexiteer slugs doing any work; they'd much rather be sitting in Spoons with a pint and a burger&chips.
One thing is for certain: remoaners never plan to do any physical labour. Their univeristy education exempts them from that. They expect EU labour to do that and if not then British labour.
@@susanelliott2287 I'd bet that you've never done real manual labour. It's repetitive and grueling. Is Susan the UK version of Karen?
Project Reality never disappoints
@Stephen Valentine £9 per hour isn't bad for picking fruit. They should get people who have been on benefits for years to do the work, literally for peanuts
@@utubebroadcaster these guys just don't realise that there are many many businesses paying minimum wage, but they believe that these people are getting less (some might be, but they should at least get minimum wage).
Haha...yeah😉
@Stephen Valentine These workers would fly in from Bulgaria or somewhere like that for the season, earn a few thousand pounds, and go home after the harvest. The few thousand is worth a lot more in Bulgaria. They would come back year after year. That’s finished now.
€9 per hour might be ok for picking veg, but because farms are far from where people live, you would have to live in the accommodation the farm provides. It’s physically tough work too. How many unemployed Brits want that? Well done Brexiteers, you are a bunch if geniuses.
But this is what they wanted, to limit foreigners from coming in so that locals would have a better work market.
Yeah, wages have been down for decades. Now these companies are forced to let go of their cheap slave labor and increase their wages.
Have you seen local people working?
@@edwardvalivonis23 all locals are on benefits, they wouldn't do this job even for £15/h.. Can you imagine a British man all day bending up and down picking cabbages or some other veggies? This job needs to be done even if it's raining, there is no day off because of rain.. British would never do this job.
@@geddoubleg1816 if they don't, then let them enjoy polish vegetables
@@edwardvalivonis23 if they don't let they enjoy fruits from Moldova. Sweet !!!
I remember bursting with laughter after seeing that "pick for Britain" campaign...it was delusional to think young, entitled British kids who want the CEO job 3 days after graduation will start picking fruit to replace the EU workforce. Let them feel the consequences if what they voted for.
Well, I'm a Filipino (citizen in The Philippines) currently working in Saudi Arabia. I am interested to immigrate in the UK to work as a farm worker even though I have a degree in teaching science education.
I contacted once a potato farm company in the UK and replied that they're currently in talk with government's Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) in finding ways to bring in direct-hire farm workers. But I haven't heard updates since after five months past.
@@reysaj too expensive to bring workers from Asia tbh.
Bet the cost of fruit and veggies go way up. Was that part of Brexit that folks knew was going to happen?
@@Chainyanker007 not really, prices are more or less the same. I mean only a tiny bit of fruit and veg are actually grown in the UK, most of them are imported so 🤷
The UK can't get salad from Australia. So what now?
Constipation?
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Yes, Constipation.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 😂😂😂
Frozen salad? Or bring the Concorde back. How much Australian salad can it load? Or, shocking, pay higher wages for the pickers.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions" - Britain
@@paulies5407 The extra money you talk of where's that coming from? Only way you'll be getting paid extra is if you work more hours to fill in the gaps in employment left by Brexit.
This is hilarious, literally the only reason they voted for brexit
@Stephen Valentine UK can't pick the produce. So where is the extra money coming from?
@@paulies5407 mate, i hope that happens. But is it likely? Brits working in the fields? And is it really a life you want for ya kids? Backbreaking work in the sun? Isn't it more likely, rather than raising wages enough that Brits start apply, that they keep raising the seasonal worker quota until it's just enough for most businesses? These clowns don't solve problems, they just kick them into the long grass and hope it'll be the next guy's problem once they're long gone.
@@Gav_80085 the problem is those lazy sod's on the dole and the disability, dossing around all day on our taxes. If there were no handouts from the taxpayer they would work or starve, simples. No need for migrants and in fact wages can be cut to a meal a day and they will still work.
You have plenty of British people sat at home on benefits drinking cider and smoking all day, put them to work!
Whaaat? And break a nail ?
Talking about drink I speculate that there is a shortage of suitably compliant people in terms of not having a drink driving conviction. Jobs such as care, driving and security will always attract modest premium because not everybody can do it.
That right wing myth. Who can afford to live on 70 pounds a week? Can you? If you think people on welfare are rolling in it, maybe do some actual research.
Wtf are u smoking mate?
@@tangaz5819 well then a job paying £300 pw should have its attractions should it not?
What I really like about Brexit is that there are less fat red alcoholics at our nice mediterranean beaches.
Gammon's are a type of Solar panels, not pretty ones
Trouble is the thick twunts stay here in the UK and decent folk have to put up with them
@Saint Ratus you don't get it. Fatter wages mean more expensive produce and products. For those to be kept affordable, wages are kept low.
@Dana Alexander not too sure about that when they have to start paying extra for visas as they are now non eu
@Dana Alexander LOL, that depends on whether Brits can afford all those visas now. No more buying a cheap holiday deal whenever they please and just jumping on a plane and staying at any EU country of their choice either! Once the lockdown is permanently over, it's going to be a wakeup call to Brits, when they travel aboard and try to return with duty free goods too! Brits have cut off their noses to spite their face!!!🤦🏻♀️
"allow foreign drivers in" kinda arrogant that you think eu drivers want to come to Brexit land.
Lol. How do you think the EU manages to trade with the rest of the world?
@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 False equivalency. He is most likely, but wasn't specific, talking about getting his goods to a UK supermarket chain distributer.
@@adambrickley1119 But you seem to think that people from EU member states never work outside the EU? What do you think they're afraid of? Been watching too much Channel 4 news, perhaps?
@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 I know for a fact that the UK ( not just anywhere outside the EU) is not as appealing to EU workers now as before Brexit. My gf is a scientist, german and spent 10 years in the UK. She wont go back. There a lots like her. The UK just isnt as desirable as it used to be. Rather than argue with me.....hang on 12 months and see.
They can`t wait to drive on the other side of the road...
Plenty of jobless UK citizens, me being one of them, where's my call up for working the fields? Oh that's right, jobs aren't a right (as they should be) and some Tory famer who probably voted for Brexit doesn't want to pay workers a living wage.
Well, unfortunately, these are the jobs on offer. Wait til politicians start stripping back regulations and protections.
And miners as well actually, same goes for pottery worker and miners in my home city, Stoke-On-Trent all sold out by suits
So Phil, you know theres an opportunity there on a farm, why don't you go and apply, rather than wait for the call? Honest question
@@richardtuxford1812 There's none being advertised, I suspect they'd rather wait on a bail of public money rather than find a labour force they have to pay properly
@@TheWaveGoodbye-Music I've just looked on indeed and there have been 303 jobs under farm worker posted in the last fortnight, and several of them look like they are for multiple roles. A further 180 adverts on 4xtrahands. This is usually the tip of the ice berg of what a recruiter will actually have on their books tbh. Maybe some farmers are trying to gain the system, but I suspect there are lots of opportunities for some point who is unemployed and genuinely wants to work in farming. Whether they pay the going wage is another question
the australian deal will decimate the agriculture anyway, no need for more workers soon
Decimate means 10%. It's going to be much worse than that.
@ Not every farmer will die out if you are big enoth you can make it work. Just most farmers are small.
@@PORRRIDGE_GUN *Halve
@Cucking Funt welcome by whom?
Stuff that has to be shipped from Australia will be more expensive due to shipping and packaging costs, no ?
I don't understand why EU citizens still want to work in the UK , they throw you in jail at the border , let them sort it out themselfs .
They don't. Have you seen the figures?
I’m an EU citizen, and I don’t want to work in the UK. Actually, I’m not even considering tourism there anymore, despite many previous visits. You don’t visit the house in which more than half of the inhabitants have let you know that they are NOT fond of you, even when you know that less than half are. It’s sad, I used to love going there … 😢
@Cucking Funt issue is consecutive conservative governments CHOSE not to have stricter immigration rules like many EU countries do we didn’t need to leave the EU at all
*I LIVE IN BULGARIA NOW* I know literally dozens of people who have come back from the UK. They have NO INTENTION of returning.
Racism, cost of accommodation rising, paperwork, problems at the border, how they have been treated generally are the reasons given... Other EU countries are crying out for them.
Labour shortage == "We don't want to pay a living wage". Let's not forget that farmers voted en masse for this. Turkeys for christmas etc.
Let them enjoy polish aubergines
Brexit means Brexit.
Ah! Ah!
Pinoccio England 🤥 the only place were even the lies get dizzy from being spun.
@@mikedutch6113 Ah! Ah! This is fantastic - and sadly, very true... with professional lyers at the very top
And what does that mean?
Uk powers is lunatic clowm boris johnson patriotism like toxic poisoning mind these people who vote leave uk believe their leader whom failed own people.
Where have all the workers gone? Are they serious? What about not feeling welcome anymore?
There still 5 million here, how many do you want?
Really. Did the UK force EU workers onto cattle trains to be deported back to their native lands.
If so, why aren't we doing this with the benefit seekers?
Farmers complaining they can't hire slave labour anymore....
They will just have to pay a proper wage now, or go under
@@sheelahales4738 and UK is going extint soon
We are short on staff! why dont you raise the wages? Because that will cost me money!
@@JasperKlijndijk or ‘I’ll have to sell one of my range rovers’
Generally, you don't hire slaves.
No, don't relax Brexit rules at all, the amount of tourists going to Ireland has gone up. Just sit there and lose your money while we roll in the dough.
well, at least the EU can make some money on brexit with tariffs and fees. So let the British ENJOY their 'victory'
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Best wishes from Poland to our Catholiic brothers
They can only relax those rules if the EU agrees. And I am sure our friends in Brussels have better things to do than having those Brits over again for a chat. Love from Holland. Take care
@@krakendragonslayer1909 god bless you
How about Little Englanders doing their jobs themselves as they are sovereign finally.
Welcome to the Brexit.
Have a lovely happy mackerel with the Heinz ketchup.
Exactly, most are to bone unless to work
You realise the ‘Little Englanders’ were the politicians who opposed the British Empire, colonialism and ‘Big Britain’ right? Insults from the people who don’t even understand history. Life is truly funny.
@@maxpowerii7368
Max.
You do realize there is a difference between the 18th /19th century and the 21st.
May be exactly this lack of understanding is the reason for Brexshit and the stupidity of Leave voters in Little England. They are truely Little Englanders.
@@cyberkraut5139 you think I’m going to debate a bitter xenophobic moron? Lol yeah no.
@@maxpowerii7368
Oh dear!
in *every* field in my area (one of the biggest arable areas in the UK) pre 2016, was a massive board saying "VOTE LEAVE!!". Well the farmers got what they voted for so why are they complaining.
"what a rebounding economy needs is labour" that's a fitting statement.
But cheap labour from the EU working in poor conditions and pushing up house prices through a rising population. I see this as exploitation and I am surprised Labour supporters fell for it.It is not even as though many Brits were heading the other way either.It is massively one sided use of low wage workers.
@@nihilistcentraluk442 Housing prices aren't being jacked up by low wage workers.
@@FuriousImp but they are if net immigration is 250,000 a year and houses can be rented.
@@nihilistcentraluk442 No it really isn't, the baby boomers and "investors" who at times buy up hundreds of homes and leaving many of them empty to try and jack up that price are responsible. Besides - you really think kicking out, according to you, 250000 foreigners will do wonders for your economy?
@@FuriousImp nobody is suggesting kicking out 250000 people
My heart bleeds for them. The have been drunk on a cheap labour model for decades and now that the cheap EU source has dried up and the Indian variant has stopped govt importing cheap Indian labour they will just have toinvest in automation or pay British people a living wage just like the Germans, Swiss, Norwegians and every other advanced country.
Do you think Norwegians pick their own cabbage?Or Germans in Germany?In Germany only they need 300000 "pickers"every year paying minimum wage for very hard work.In Norway Covid stopped foreigners from coming,so farmers wanted to hire Norwegians,surprisingly not many applied,and from those who did many resigned after few days-work is too hard and to reach the welfare level of income you need to be good and work a lot,so they'd rather stay home.So,I don't know where did you get your info from-it's false.
As a german I would like to points out that living costs in germany are way higher than in the UK. As someone earning less than £37,500 i pay 20% income tax in the UK. In germany i paid more like 50% including social care and health insurance. I also used to pay about 200 a month for electricity and heating while now with a house in the UK i pay about 500 a year. The higher wages come with higher prices in everything else. To be fair that does pay for a much better health care system and free university education. Its a give and take!
@@yvonneketteler + we still need seasonal workers from eastern europe, we just don't hate them like the brits.
@@timokohler6631 it's not true. My husband is a lorry driver. He meets nice and smiling people very rare.
@@agnieszkadorota1248 There are no nice and smiling people in Germany.
Shocking, who’d have guessed.
*BREXITEERS* "This is not the Brexit we voted for"
*REMAINERS* "This is exactly the Brexit we voted against"
Kinda makes you think that one side were living in reality and the other in a nationalistic fantasy land...
Have you seen maga? They got primed into not believing in reality and into this victim reality where everything is done to them and nothing is their responsibility of fault.
Or perhaps businesses are being exposed for relying on cheap labour by exploiting poor people from poorer countries.
@@joco2826 That is a perfectly acceptable critique. I wrote not 30 minutes ago [Im an author] that dirt-cheap prices benefit no one except the giant corporations. It is a fantasy that it benefits the "consumer" and the "low-income family". The reason they are a low-income family is the wage levels needed to offer the dirt-cheap prices.
In 1940 the average man spent 12% of his income on clothing, in 2015 the average man spent 3% but bought 5 times the quantity of clothing as the 1940's man.
Wearing a garment an average of 5 times before throwing it away...
@@goblinwisdom Funnily enough a news reported coined a new term for it today "Victim Envy"
@@piccalillipit9211 interesting take. Does your book(s) cover this subject matter?
Looks like "Project fear" converted to "Project reality".
"Welcome to the Brexit, sir" - A wise Dutchmen said
I'm sorry.
A wise *Dutchman*
Two wise *Dutchmen*
THE WISE DUTCHMAN HAS A SHIP
@Charlie Munster No it isn’t.
The EU couldn’t even handle vaccines.
@@mrmagoo-i2l that was just at the start. You still on that?
This is HILARIOUS. We always knew that the hardest working, worst paid laboourers in Britain were not from our shores, and just when it's going to be more important than ever to have a home grown source of food, we made it impoossible for those labourers to reach us. Still, I keep hearing that there are hundreds of thousands of unemployed youyng people...
@ I don't see it happening. The benefits people are trying to get tougher, but I think we're gonna see a rise in young drug dealers.
The problem with unskilled jobs is that most people don't have the required skills.
"We always knew"
That's rubbish,our domestic workforce are hard working.you are gross
@@jdlc903 SOME of our domestic workforce are hard working. Others are quite demonstrably not. Put your flapping hanky down. Don't need you getting the vapours. The crop picking, nursing, and care industries have depended on foreign labour for years.
@@Martial-Mat nursing is an odd situation where training colleges turn away eligible domestic course students because the Government simply hasn't been bothered to invest in expanding places.a NHS doctor explained this in a review.
We used to manage picking our crops fine prior to 2004 a pay good wages for it too.
Hospitality,well we see in central London wages are now going up.
What we need is a tight labour market and high wage economy and a affordable housing economy.
Business owners could start paying decent wages, rather than exploiting cheap foreign labour.
I know that some business owners might suffer. They might have to take only one expensive holiday abroad each year, rather than two and maybe buy a new car once every two years, rather than every year!
@@ovidiumarianbudulean1851 5 million EU migrants still in the UK, far too overpopulated, if they go home 5 million less mouths to feed.
@@ovidiumarianbudulean1851 commonslibrary.parliament.uk/eu-settlement-scheme-applications-figures-in-final-month/
Not my statistics, the government, so yes, demand, supply, migrants create more demand so they push the price up, you're responsible for any increase in food prices, don't blame others.
@UCWkmYC_JevNlawM6QqP4msQ Most of them feed themselves and probably feed your fat backside too by paying your benefits. I dare you to insist on British Drs and Nurses when you go for treatment.
@@Daddy-do8bn unlikely, you can't seem to feed yourself in your own country.
@@heybabycometobutthead No, I'm one of those who contribute towards your benefits each month
There is not such thing like a shortage of workers , there is a shortage of cheap workers
Correct
@@HyperiPoro you think a 20/30/40 year old brit would go and pick fruit even if it was 12 £ an hour? where do you live dude? only people who are really in ned would do that.. then because of that they get exploited by some.. but nothing to do with stealing jobs ahahahhaahah
@@morepanic2289 who pissed in your cornflakes?
@@HyperiPoro who pissed in your brain dude? ahahahahahah
@@morepanic2289 lol get some help imagine acting like a child because you have a different opinion.
WE TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN.
You do realise that the UK only has to relax its immigration policy if it wants more immigration, yes? Thats the beauty of being in control!
@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 so invite all thes foreigners again? The are humans not goods!
@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 that right there is what is known as English exceptionalism, do you seriously believe that people from EU countries will be willing to come to/back to the UK after they have been made feel so unwelcome?
Open your eyes my friend, the EU does not need the UK more than the the UK needs the EU.
@@marcasoceallaigh5362 'English exceptionalism'? Its the same policy most of Europe has with non EU immigration. In fact most of the world does the same. So not really exceptional at all really. But it suits the same tired warn out narrative, I guess.
@@minimax9452 They're called 'seasonal workers'. Every country has them.
Before the interviewer allows any moaning they should ask two questions:
1- How did you vote in the referendum?
2- What is your hourly wage for manual labourers?
Sounds like discrimination to me . Thought you guys were all about equality? 'Diversity is our strength' and all that...
@@shaddamiv2212 What on earth are you talking about? Are you being deliberately stupid?
@@MegaTerryNutkins why should an interviewer ask you if you voted Brexit or not?
@@shaddamiv2212 because they are moaning about the consequences of Brexit, something they possibly voted in favour of and dismissed evidence based warnings as fear mongering.
This isn't difficult.
@@MegaTerryNutkins You need to re-read your original post. Writing a coherent sentence really does seem difficult to you,
And of course this EU labour is needed in the EU. I know of fruit growers in Germany that are thrilled that the UK has left the EU as they now have easy access to EU labour. Thanks, UK!
No problem, Take as many as you want...
@@thetruth9210 Do not mix arguments! The farm workers are from eastern Europe and not refugees, same thing with the lorry drivers.
What migrant worker wants to come to little England to be slagged off and treated poorly at the border to come and pick on these farms? They went to other EU countries that pay better and treat the workers with dignity. Also, I'm almost certain that the farmer in this story voted for Brexit so sod him and his farm. Let him go sign on.
Well said...
@MR .TEA. yeah you must have read that in the telegraph or Sun. As if that exact same thing happens here. The farmers here voted as a block for Brexit and then after all that, after 3 years before the general election and years of doing research to see what the scumbag tories were talking was absolute bullshit, still voted for Bozo.
@MR .TEA. and remember: in Italy there is no minimum wage.
Poor guy cant exploit cheap labor from overseas any more, a real tragedy
you think a 20/30/40 year old brit would go and pick fruit even if it was 12 £ an hour? where do you live dude? only people who are really in ned would do that.. then because of that they get exploited by some.. but nothing to do with stealing jobs ahahahhaahah
Lots of fishermen that now can work the fields - and once cheap Aussie beef kills of the farmers who produced home grown beef, they can work the field as well. Also some bankers can turn lorry drivers. After all, thats what people knew they voted for. Or so they claim.
@ what are you driveling about? Here is an advice that may come in handy to make you sound less of an idiot: punctuation helps to make a point. Or sound cohesive.
Else you just sound like a 3year old who recently discovered a keyboard and is randomly slamming at it to make things appear on screen.
I dont think bankers voted leave>
Brexit: The morning after.
Like it or not, Brexit has happened, and people need to start looking forward to a new reality. This means a big shift in the way a lot of things are done and the way people think. "Immigrant jobs" are now for the locals - so reskill and get to it. Business owners will have to pay more for labour, so stop whining and adjust your business model. Lots of people who voted for this Brave New World are now trying to cling on to the old one.
I'm not a salad plucker, I'm a salad plucker's son, and I'm sitting on the sofa at home 'cos I can't be derrièred.
LOLOLOL
Andrew Robinson.
😂😂😂 100% true though mate.
Lol
Quite shocking, employers are so desperate they are having to pay to train people. My goodness!
The proportion of household income spent on food has more than halved over the past 60 years. In the UK food is now cheap, too cheap. Pay British farmworkers a good wage and learn to pay more for your food. Maybe we'd waste less food in the process.
You do realise that this will cause a domino effect and in the and will reduce £ value? If people will pay more for food,less stay in their budget. And that will affect prices of other products and services as food would be more expensive. Another issue is that English don't want to work in hospitality sector, not to mention doing farm work. I know what I mean as I been working on the hotel industry and 8/10 Brits didn't survived the probation period
"told you so" just doesn't cover it
The EU will be happy to supply Britain with fresh vegetables and other produce.
🤣🤣🤣Yeah, and make those brits pay for the imports
@@tomaszzalewski4541 🤣
:)))))))))))
Yes to polish aubergines
I'm starting to get the feeling Brexit was not about labor and was more about "who" was doing the labor
Sounds like time to "train British workers to do those jobs." Welcome to Brexit, sir.
Thanks
@@edwardvalivonis23 Said the turkey to the cook at Christmas.
@@milesblue638 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@edwardvalivonis23 Careful Eddie. You'll run out of emojois! You won't know any other way to reply.
Simple question: I thought it was to protect UK jobs? What’s happening British people? Don’t want to get your hands dirty?
Yes that's good for workers who can now finally demand better wages for their labour or move to a company willing to pay more.
🤦🏼♂️😂😂😂
@@robstewart1703 it's simple supply and demand. If you can pay poles less than minimum wage, and I've seen it, you don't hire locals. No supply of cheap foreign labour, you have to negotiate with locals for wages and conditions. My wages have gone up and I've got 2 extra holidays a year since all this happened.
@@MrMrsmijj the featured farms will be moving to EU. if the essential labor wont come to you, then you have to go to the labor.
@@MrMrsmijj But as the item said...There is simply not enough UK based workers at this point to do the jobs and the profit margins are so slim, especially in hospitality, that it not economical to pay native workers higher wages. Its a catch-22 that for all its faults EU labour addressed. The 'pay them well and they will come' argument is colliding with reality.
@@tedcrilly46 We need to encourage a sustainable wages for working class people instead of importing a solution from poorer countries. I'm tired of my town having high unemployment but lots of foreign labour coming over and taking jobs away from local people. The poles and Romanians up the road are lovely people, but 3 houses of English on the dole doesn't help the town.
Translation:
"We can't convince the locals to work for substandard wages and benefits anymore ... we need access to unskilled uneducated migrant labourers or else our profits won't be so enormous."
Or food will rot in the fields
You nailed it.
@@verw719 Or maybe prices will increase
Bang on
@@lvpt84 Prices are increasing anyhow - as anyone can see for oneself - even if supposedly they aren't
Hoist by its own petard. Well done UK.
Transport companies having to invest money on training? Heaven forbid!
abey I can applay theses jobs what I need todo . there is no explotation where is the people from africans workers . they do not go the united kingdom. maybe. they are explotatitor do you know maybe how mamy migrants they are not british guys
Yep Brits get used to work. Maybe you can get your Farage and his body guards pick salad.
You can't, this one is a slug.
I’m sure the 800,000 people who have lost their jobs over the course of the Covid lockdown may be able to help. However, wages may need to be increased rather than importing cheap labour.
This will lead to inflation...
Ye it's almost like there isn't really a problem
@@margeert3952 wages have been stagnant at the lower end of the job market for too long. Modernise or pay wages that encourage staff to join
Margeert and inflation will lead to people taking more caution when consuming.
So are you saying, people will also have to pay more at super market's. In that case people will also need more better income increase , who will pay all of that .
Hey, brits, take back your jobs now. All the luck
Yup all these jobs ready for the picking....
Good, this means more money for British workers.
Stfu..you're too lazy to get a job..
@Tiberius Zann No supermarket is going to pay farmers more for produce when importing it is cheaper. Several farms have already declared bankruptcy because they can't find workers. The next few weeks will undoubtably have higher prices though as crops have failed.
Were is Mr. Farage?
In the US! Probably a wise decision!
GB news not Channel 4
They will get more British people if they increase the wages. If they increase the wages, they will increase the prices. If they increase the prices, demand will decrease.
There will be more jobs for local people but prices will also rise and demand decrease.
I doubt it the immigrants had no problem with doing these jobs
@A A That's the wage-price spiral inflation the UK had in the 1970s as the 'sick man of Europe'. But Brexiteers hate Europe and love the 1970s so it's all good.
@@barbaragouin7232 but that's the thing, there aren't enough immigrants to do these jobs. So they must be done by locals, who will only do them if wages increase.
There is no shortage of UK labour, just employers who aren't exploitative. Employers now have to make their jobs attractive.
how do you make breaking your back in the sun to pick fucking fruit attractive? ahhahahahah
No problem, workers from industries that are dying out-you know, like fishing-will soon be looking for work.
Get ya own people to do the work .Not other countries to save you . England is a shambles
There are a lot of people at Calais desperately seeking to pluck your vegetables...
@Charlie Munster I am sorry to hear that. In my family there are also persons very much against imigration. I tend to counter their argument by telling: ´those people will take care of you in your older age´. Nonetheless it remains a challenge to get the people to work. Not necessarily because they do not want, but they also need to speak the language, Dutch in my case, which is not easy. Take care!
The problem is that a lot of the unemployed British workers live in the cities and the available work is in the country side, how do they commute to the country side? Also, the cost for Common Wealth workers to come here from their countries is so high that it makes no sense for them to come here on short term work visas and the Eastern Europeans have the same opportunities in 27 other EU countries that the UK is just no longer an attractive option. Also, why would EU workers want to come to a country that they know they are no longer welcome in?
Good luck finding EU drivers! A shortage of drivers is everywhere.
I wonder why
@@karlmcglue9946 My steph brother is a lorry driver (and crane operator) and at there company they have a hard time finding extra drivers for years now.
In the recent past Polish drivers worked here a lot, but the wages have been going up there for years now, so fewer come this way.
And here in the Netherlands the job market has been tight for almost 5 years now. We have an unemployment rate of below 3 percent and because of the baby boom generation now going into pension the amount of workers needed is rising every month.
For the UK due to brexit obviously (not for everyone) it is even harder to find drivers that are willing to do the trip. The additional paperwork and longer waiting times at the border make it hard to be economical. Especially the risk that something has the wrong paperwork is too high. Because than the delay will be even higher.
So a combination of factors make it hard to solve this problem.
Sander Dr Boer I was a tanker driver full adr not bothering any more treated badly by management telemetry cpc lot of hassle for poor pay bad hours
@@karlmcglue9946 Companies got so hooked on the crack of cheap labour they forgot/neglected to train up their workforce. They thought the gravy train was never going to end...
They all voted for it
A few years ago the recruitment agencies refused to recruit the British people because they were a unreliable workforce, they were experiencing issues people calling in sick a lot or not turning up to jobs and the Eastern European’s was their preferences. Some recruiters had signs on their windows. True story.
Ohhhh so this is the ‘freedom’ they where telling us about. I get it now. 😐
It comes down to wages. Plenty of brits would do these jobs the bills out way the pay. That's what you get for relying foreigners for cheap rates.
You'd pay double for the food then would you?
Well, what is this Tory government doing about that???
Don't think they would
@@hmq9052 yes why not? Supply and demand when it comes to worker and pay also supply for food and price. It helps both ways tbh
@@beanhole123 That would be classic wage-price spiral inflation that the UK had in the '70s as the 'sick man of Europe'. But of course Brexiteers hate Europe and love the '70s so it's all good.
That "ending free movement" thing really seems to be paying off...
Get british workers. Stop complaining.
@Cucking Funt Sounds great in theory but in the real world it doesn't work like that. Create a hostile enviroment for foreign labou, where they have to jump through hoops, and you will get worker shortage no matter how lovely visas and permits looks on paper...
@Cucking Funt Really, not hostile? Have you read the news for the past months? Countless reports of the detention of europeans, fingerprinting etc etc etc....
I'm sure people experiencing that and reading about that feel very welcome...
Good luck finding people wyo want to come in
@@susannamarker2582 Not complaining, just looking around and pointing at what everyone can see. The Tories have been in control of everything including the borders for 11 years. Their border policies will continue as they have for 11 years except that they'll need more immigration from outside the EU. British workers are not turning up to pick the vegetables and fruit.
there are thousands of people unemployed, why are they not doing these jobs?
Because they pay poverty wages.
Because they don't want to.
If their parents are well off then yes it's not worth them getting off of their PlayStation for. If your from a poor background or living on your own chances are you are already doing a minimum wage job possibly in retail, or places like the Amazon warehouse, if don't drive then how are you going to become a lorry driver, if you've never driven a forklift then who is going to get you the training and licensing requirement. It seems simple but actually really isn't.
Because they don’t pay a living wage.
"logistics is a very low margin business"
So go up the chain, make supermarkets pay you more and then pay more to the drivers and so on down the chain.
I will bet that the profit margin of supermarkets isn't 1 or 2%.
smdh. This is what you voted for.
I applied to 17 farms over the last few weeks and received nothing. I'd love a seasonal job like this
You might have to live right next to the place of work, would that be ok for you?
@@tiermacgirl no.. a lot of them provide accommodation in caravans which is ideal for me.. I'd like to meet new friends and get away from my home town for a few months
that's a winning attitude. Here is a tip... (1) dare to phone them up and politely ask/check they got your application.Tell them you can be there 'Monday morning'. People are busy and maybe their process is failing you. A phone call shows drive and initiative and within a week you will be a gang leader. (2) maybe farmers prefer using agencies (bulk ordering), phone the agencies.
Plenty of people on benefits, get them working!
That's a good idea, that would mean they can claim sickness/disability benefits in later life when they suffer from bad backs from all that picking!!!
would you really want someone strong armed into working on a farm for benefit money to be anywhere near the food , but this has been one of westminsters goals from the start of this bs . but yeh lets go with that logic and plan , hard working people but still having to claim UC will be told by the dwp they cant offer any more support or tops ups but they have vacancies available at a farm or a warehouse , yeh thats gonna work swimmingly
you'll find a higher proportion of people who are claiming benefits live in towns & cities so what you going to do ? round them up and bus them into rural areas and it may have escaped your knowledge but a lot of food growing farms are in East Anglia,South East,Lincolnshire,what good is that to you if you live in Birmingham or Liverpool or Newcastle (no disrespect to the people who live there,just using these as examples) This is the problem with people like you,you're unable to think logically
@@philippepalmer2968 excellent idea Phil. They could have barrack style housing laid out in rows with a railway running straight to the main gate. "Work makes you free" you know.
@@gumbi79 not what I'm saying at all. It should be on a voluntary basis, but any benefits should be continued, food and accommodation either free or at a much reduced rate and paid minimum wage. It would be a good introduction to actual graft that not many young people of working age get to experience. You never know, they might actually enjoy it.
You just can't get a deal that let you stay in five star luxury at two star prices right?
Just because we have a minimum wage does not mean that half of the British work force should actually be taking home the minimum wage, This is the problem these large multinationals are only willing to pay low wages and are not willing to train or invest in their workforce hence the transport boss stating we are even now willing to pay half the training cost Really ? why not pay the full amount and have the employee sign a contract to say if you leave within 2 years you have to pay the training back in full, You reap what you sow if you look after your workforce and pay and treat them well your more likely to retain the majority of your workforce but most managers are shortsighted and are only looking at the next quarters figures instead of working towards a long term plan.
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I feel sad for the one that voted stay but had to accepted the brexit option
I feel sad when people let idiots talk over them
Just pay people properly... simple.
Perhaps the BrexiTraitors instead of telling people that they won and we should get over it, ought to get themselves out into the fields and do some labour there.
Hopefully they will when they have to and the real abject globalist remain scum emigrate to California
@@MrYorickJenkins The crisis is now - the traitors need to deliver what they promised.
@@HistoryonRUclips Ha haha If they are traitors they are pretty well be dfintiion not going to deliver what they promised. You cant have it both ways. What were they supposed to have promised anyway and why has it to be delivered now, whatever it is?
@@MrYorickJenkins I dont understand. Why not try writing in your native language?
@@HistoryonRUclips Tell me what you do not understand and I shall try to answer in easier English
...and they still don't want to pay a decent hourly rate for HGV drivers. DVLA stats show there are more than 50000 drivers that choose not to work in the industry because of the low wages compared to the risk and the long hours, and they still try to do anything and everything to avoid actually paying a decent rate.
If there are labour shortages than... WHY DONT RAISE PAY ? What type of idiocy is this . You dont have workers ? Raise the wage. As simple as. Why always implicate that workers need to be abused.
oh yes, that will make all the british office workers quit their jobs to follow their actual dreamjob of picking fruits and serving dishes.
Brexit the gift that keeps giving to the world
There's going to be a movie about brexit, but it wont be a documentory, it'll be a disaster type movie like 2012 or the Day After Tomorrow 😄
A disaster movie alright though one in the "carry on" series.
How the upper classes suddenly had their pampered life style upset-thats your disaster movie is it remaniac=?
@@MrYorickJenkins farmers are upper class? Damn i chose the wrong career! Curses
@@zoick21 Fishermen too. I bet their ships use Rolls-Royce engines.