18-01-2017, 11:27 AM
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I'm baffled what we did prior to Eastern European countries joining Eu, were apples rotting on trees, cows unmilked, no one serving coffee or cleaning offices etc ? I seem to recall in my little bit of the world we didn't suffer for lack of coffee and our offices were cleaned by British people. We don't have many cows or apples in Woking high street
So why are we so sure we need Eastern European cheap labour ? Or is it cheap that we are saying we want ? That we are not willing to pay a reasonable wage for a decent days work ?
18-01-2017, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Cass
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Quote from article in the guardian.A favourite argument of those who oppose immigration is that migrant workers "take our jobs". The Day the Immigrants Left, presented by Evan Davies (BBC1), went to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, a town with thousands of eastern European workers and 2,000 local people on the dole. The producers arranged for 12 of the latter to replace 12 of the former for two days to see if they were as ready, willing and able to work at anything as a) they claimed and b) their immigrant counterparts were.
18-01-2017, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Julie1962
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I'm baffled what we did prior to Eastern European countries joining Eu, were apples rotting on trees, cows unmilked, no one serving coffee or cleaning offices etc ? I seem to recall in my little bit of the world we didn't suffer for lack of coffee and our offices were cleaned by British people. We don't have many cows or apples in Woking high street So why are we so sure we need Eastern European cheap labour ? Or is it cheap that we are saying we want ? That we are not willing to pay a reasonable wage for a decent days work ?
We still had Foreign Workers here.
If you call £35k a year, with a 100% Bonus if you meet agreed targets plus totally free housing, no bills at all, not a reasonable wage, you are living in cloud Cuckoo Land.
18-01-2017, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiWe still had Foreign Workers here.
If you call £35k a year, with a 100% Bonus if you meet agreed targets plus totally free housing, no bills at all, not a reasonable wage, you are living in cloud Cuckoo Land.
Now they all assemble down the jobcentre instead, 'bugger that' they say.
It's called progress....
18-01-2017, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiWe still had Foreign Workers here.
If you call £35k a year, with a 100% Bonus if you meet agreed targets plus totally free housing, no bills at all, not a reasonable wage, you are living in cloud Cuckoo Land.
18-01-2017, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy
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Sounds like something out of Catherine Cookson !
18-01-2017, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiWe still had Foreign Workers here.
If you call £35k a year, with a 100% Bonus if you meet agreed targets plus totally free housing, no bills at all, not a reasonable wage, you are living in cloud Cuckoo Land.
18-01-2017, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Purwell
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Not many jobs like that about, not even down here in the supposedly affluent part of the Country.
18-01-2017, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Julie1962
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Exactly I am seriously doubting the figures myself.
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/farm-manager
If you manage a massive poultry farm you get more.
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