Farmers this morning were discussing the plans they had made to deal with this on R4. Instead of farming in the UK, there's a fair proportion that are moving out to continental Europe where they can get more land and easier access to labour. Equipment is mobile and so are techniques.
So much for "Support the UK by buying British produce". There aren't enough people to pick it. What a lovely irony that presents...
No irony in that. Apparently, farmers' profit margins are too low to pay a living wage to British workers but not so low that they can't pack up and move to another country?
They're either lying or bluffing (oh wait, bluffing is lying).
I was a remain voter but I understand why people voted leave. Until all the self-righteous 'remainers' get to grips with the GOOD reasons people voted to leave, there will be no political progress. The fact is that foreign workers can come over, live six to a room, work and save and in three or four years go home with enough for a house and car. Because of the (previous) exchange rate. There is nowhere in the world where UNSKILLED Brits can do the same. So what was happening was that one working class was being used to stuff another. That was one reason a large group of people voted leave.
The other was the bank bail out, the tax avoidance by huge multinationals, and the Panama papers. Older people, another pro-leave group, are sick of seeing rich people fiddle the system. Yes, they themselves benefit from the banking elite's activities through pension schemes, etc, but they still feel outraged by massive bonuses (with no moral justification at all), the extraordinary tax avoidance of Google, Apple, Starbucks, etc and companies like BHS (the guy's WIFE walked off with 650 million, while BHS sucked £700 million out of the U.K. through the tax credits paid to their workers).
Plus on the 'racism' charge, minorities in the UK got shafted by both sides. My son (who is black) found he could no longer get the jobs he used to get (in coffee shops, etc). He said, 'Mum, if it's between me and a pretty little blonde Polish girl, she gets it every time.'
These are some of the factors I saw operating.
I think people just wouldn't wait any more. The vote meant: 'It's not working for us. We can't fix it, so we're going to break it.'
It's sad. It's drastic. But it just MIGHT have a good outcome of the right people really put their backs into it. And if the self-designated 'smart' people can just stop, just really STOP despising the working class in Britain.
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