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If you look at the situation objectively, everybody was up in arms about immigration and surely the market is more effective than any government at actually rectifying the situation.There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to thinkComment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWhy can't the unemployed pick the fruit?Comment
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Originally posted by RandyW View PostUnder New Liebour nobody is unemployed, they're all "unfit to work" for some crappy medical reason or other.Comment
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Increase minimum wage so that there is no reason to be long term unemployed if laziness is the only option.
One Herefordshire farmer faces the loss of strawberries worth £200,000Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Originally posted by BA to the Stars View PostDA will soon be advertising for fruit pickers, excellent rates. There may be more margin in it
ClientCo employs 400 odd agency staff. Roughly £11 per hour with agency markup. So agency gets £3+ for each hour worked.
Thats close to £9k a day. I don't know many rec consultants bringing in 9k a day in the IT game.Last edited by Sockpuppet; 13 May 2008, 06:54.Comment
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