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Can someone help me understand the worries of the National Farmers Union (NFU)

Here is the gist of the story...

'Farmers are running out of patience with what they see as government inaction over the future availability of seasonal fruit and vegetable pickers, the environment secretary has been told.

Michael Gove was confronted over the issue at the National Farmers’ Union annual conference, but told delegates that while he understood their plight he did not have the power to accede to their demands for a new deal for non-EU workers on temporary contracts on farms.

Ali Capper, who chairs the NFU’s horticulture team, told Gove that the availability of workers to pick fruit and vegetables was now “mission critical for 2018”.

Gove told her the NFU’s demand for clarity on labour was “powerfully and loudly” made but that the lead department in the matter was the Home Office, not his.


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“It’s already the case that the supply of labour from EU27 countries is diminishing as their economies recover and grow. So, in the future, we will need to look further afield,” he added later, saying he had to abide by decisions in a collective government.'

Here is the bit that troubles me..

'Capper welcomed Gove’s acknowledgement that labour shortages were now so great that farmers needed to go beyond the EU, but said time was running out.

“We just need action; without wanting to blaspheme, I’m sick of hearing ‘we understand the issue, we know you need access to non-EU and EU workers’,” she said. '

Is it me, or do the farmers want slaves?... They don't want UK or even EU citizens due to the rights and protections we currently have, they want non EU members, to come here for part of the year and then leave.

Is this brexit... is this sovereignty We exploit the people and deport them once they are no longer useful?
I thought we were going to work, live and grow from within, how do we know this practice won't be adopted by many other sectors?

No wonder May now wants to discourage the young going to uni, if they want anyone from any field they can just get someone on a temporary fixed term contract ...mail order :/


https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ssion-critical