Appeal

[Canary42]

Will all those who flocked so willingly to the supermarkets now flock to the fields - the farmers need you.

No chance with the me-me-me Brits. The Brexit phoney patriotism that kicked the farm workers out has a lot to answer for.

https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/coronavirus-urgent-appeal-for-brits-to-work-on-farms?utm_content=buffer677c2&utm_medium=social&;utm_source=facebook.com&;utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR0q-r0VfxZQsqIr0E7lItc6DOOO3LCr_YJGPRRHF2KxJ0B78Hs9FYR-tis

[Old_Geezer]

Folk already have jobs. If farm work jobs aren't attractive enough to UK unemployed citizens before the virus they won't be after either. Pay and conditions need to overcome reluctance. Or find a way to mechanise it.

[ToraToraTora]

I didn't flock to the supermarkets so am I allowed not to?

[ToraToraTora]

still tring to score cheap political points canary? Market forces dear boy, if WSS cannot be tempted from their beds then wages will rise until they can, geddit?

[TheDevil]

No, I have a job.. that is why I was able to buy some stuff.

[grandpajoe]

I dont think there was any phoney patriotism re leaving that monolith of beurocracy more like a wish to be a self governing nation once again . You are quite correct however regarding the modern selfishness and the yock you Jack attitude that purvades society nowadays.Farm workers will still work the farms

[jno]

Farm workers will still work the farms

but according to the link, they require 70,000 seasonal workers, many of whom have been scared off. That's the sort of work people might do on a gap year, but I suspect it will take huge rises in pay before locals would consider it; and consumers would have to pay. The same consumers who are currently outraged about high prices and shortages.

[jno]

I see farm workers are now key workers whose children will still be allowed to go to school.

[i]Some pointed out the irony of farmers and farmworkers being catapulted in just two weeks from 'unskilled workers' in the government’s post-Brexit immigration list to 'key workers' in the response to the coronavirus pandemic[i]

https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/coronavirus-farmers-farmworkers-and-vets-on-key-workers-list