Originally posted by vetran
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It doesn't seem to have helped the situation with regard to recruiting native workers.
The problem is that for the last few decades at least, for whatever reason, farmers have needed to recruit foreigners.
In the 50s it was Irish travellers.
Perhaps natives will work at wages that would then bankrupt the farmers, whose margins are generally low.
So there is a problem, regardless of your attempts to say otherwise.
Actually it seems to me this is a problem of the success of the British economy: natives don't have to do low paid work because they have access to much better work. At the moment the unemployment rate is just over 5%, which is really full employment.
Immigrants are coming here BECAUSE the economy is good, you'll really need to worry when they DON'T want to come.
Long may it continue.
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