On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:50:18 +0000, Tim Streater
wrote:

Not entirely. I visited a local apple farm about a month ago.The bloke
running it said that all their pickers are eastern European. He has to
pay them the same as anyone local. For the foreigners, minimum wage is
good pay. For the Brits, it's not.

It would be better than being unemployed.

That is the first point. Second,
it's bloody hard work. He had a local couple who were determined to
pick at the same rate the foreigners could do. After the first day they
were exhausted.

Work on the land is hard work. It always has been, and probably
always will be.

Now, 50 years ago all that would most certainly have been picked by
locals. But unless you do it on a regular basis, then you're not gonna
be fit enough to be able to stick at it. And so people can't and don't.

If they want to work rather than rot on the dole, they will need to
get fit by continuing at the work rather than by giving up.
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