The admin and organisation required would send the civil servants to the Funny Farm

The admin and organisation required would send the civil servants to the Funny Farm

Hi

I agree, much simpler just to send pensioners to do it.

They've all got bad backs, would need compensation and regular tea breaks

I don't understand why all the EU pickers would have to leave anyway .
We could give them fruit picking visas .

Hi

One of the main reason people voted to leave was immigration.

Often heard was they are here taking our jobs.

There is some truth in this.

The skilled jobs we will need years to train our own, we cannot magic people off the shelf.

Nurses, doctors, engineers, Tpins Polish stone masons.

The unskilled jobs?

We are going to have to force some people to work and to move house to where the jobs are.

It's a mind game being played here and there will be many many more of them over the coming couple of years so strap in and get used to them.

It's not a bad thing though.

Essentially what is being highlighted here is that there is a bigger picture involved in our buying decisions.

For a long time Brits have happily bought "stuff" from shops concentrating solely on price and with absolutely no thought to the wider implications of what those purchases mean.

So people have happily walked into supermarkets and picked up pairs of jeans for literally £3 ! Many years ago people would happily pay £30-£50 for jeans !

But what is the price of buying foreign imported jeans for a pittance? Slave labour in sweat shops in other countries and likely much more implications.

BrExit is not simply about leaving the EU.

BrExit is about understanding anew what it means to be a sovereign country and what responsibility we each have to each other within that national community.

It ultimately means we MUST once again come to understand and respect and support local trades and producers. It means we MUST think beyond a price tag and understand that cheap doesn't always help the country and the wider community.

Once we get our minds around the implications we should start to choose our purchases with more responsibility and that will almost certainly mean paying more money to support home grown goods, be they food items or clothing or whatever.

I'd say we absolutely need to re-establish good strong agriculture production, fruit, vegetables and of course plenty of home grown animals (beef, lamb, chicken, turkey, venison etc).

A part of that is to mentally say f*** the supermarkets because they have been responsible for the decimation of our local trades, trades which Britain used to be proud of, A-Class Butchers, Green Grocers, Bakeries, Raw milk dairies and so on.

We are equally responsible for that situation because we just didn't care and took the easy, lazy and cheaper option of strolling into Tesco and Sainsbury.

Sainsbury's largest shareholder is Qatar, they effectively own it along with huge swathes of London and lots of other things.

The country needs to take back control of such things but that can only happen if we take responsibility for our buying choices and pay more for British produce. The longer term prospects for everyone are better if we act responsibly.

So on the issue of fruit and veg picking, yep, let's pay higher salaries for that so that our own people will undertake the tasks. It's employment for our own people, which in turn will help them survive these turbulent times better and increase morale. The cost of fruit and veg will rise and we should all accept that additional cost for the good of the country and our mutual prosperity.

Immigrants filling jobs is not a problem, immigrants filling the dole office is.