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Old 23-05-2020, 02:58 AM #476
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He’s indispensable ....

Unless he resigns but is kept on a silent advisor .... it’s not as though he has to be in at the forefront of everything


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Yes an Advisor
not a MP.

Johnson PM who has total control
is missing in action
it's not like he will pop out and go live on TV news


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Fruit puckers live in Mobil homes on farms big fruit farms have many caravans to house its foreign workers.
How many to a caravan?
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How many to a caravan?
I don’t know exactly there a farm just down from my parents that started fruit farming a good few years ago.

Pickers mostly come over with their girlfriends and when they are not working walk to the village in groups of four in general some times more.

They are young they work all season then go home I did see a group of maybe 7 men and women on a walk the other day they were sitting alll together.
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Many years ago English gypsy would travel to farms for fruit and vegetables harvesting then in the seventies and eighties large numbers of Spanish men and women would do it and then it would be done by Indians who would be bought by mini buses to the farms to work.
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Yes an Advisor
not a MP.

Johnson PM who has total control
is missing in action
it's not like he will pop out and go live on TV news


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Cummings has said he will not resign


I didn’t think Cummings is/was an mp .. he’s supposed to have a brilliant mind for things .. that’s why he could resign and give the Labour Party the ‘sense of the kill’ but just carry on advising behind the scenes .. ( as Jose famously did ‘that’ time )


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About half the 18,200 fines issued to people for breaking coronavirus rules up to May 10 were not complete and have been sent back to police and local council officials for improvement, the public prosecution department said on Friday.

The fines have been deemed incomplete because they either don’t include a proper description of why they were issued, they miss relevant documents or personal details don’t add up, the department said.

By May 10, 18,200 fines had been issued by wardens and police officers – earlier estimates of 10,000 fines did not include those handed out by local authority wardens.
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Many years ago English gypsy would travel to farms for fruit and vegetables harvesting then in the seventies and eighties large numbers of Spanish men and women would do it and then it would be done by Indians who would be bought by mini buses to the farms to work.
I've done it myself when I was a teenager.

It's very hard work.
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I've done it myself when I was a teenager.

It's very hard work.
Yes I’ve worked on a farm many years ago.
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Yes I’ve worked on a farm many years ago.
Brussel sprouts were the worst.
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Brussel sprouts were the worst.
Me my brother and my dad once planted a whole field of marrows by hand with dibbers, field was about the size of 40 football pitches.
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Me my brother and my dad once planted a whole field of marrows by hand with dibbers, field was about the size of 40 football pitches.
I feel bad for quiting 4 hours into the sprouts now..
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I feel bad for quiting 4 hours into the sprouts now..
Man you have let the side down.

Lots of good memories from working on farms.
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Parm and sheriffs sunday morning agricultural hour.
Well it beats your obsession with the government.

Don’t worry we will leave you to it now.
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Many years ago English gypsy would travel to farms for fruit and vegetables harvesting then in the seventies and eighties large numbers of Spanish men and women would do it and then it would be done by Indians who would be bought by mini buses to the farms to work.
So it's always been rather an exploitative business?
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So it's always been rather an exploitative business?
No, I’d say it was a honest days pay for an honest days work.

Two young polish men did die about five years back after getting pulled into a machine on the farm down the road from my parents.
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Well it beats your obsession with the government.

Don’t worry we will leave you to it now.
Ooooooh, biting commentary.

I wasn't criticising either of you for it, but you would have noticed if you weren't in such a hurry to find offense at something I said.
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No, I’d say it was a honest days pay for an honest days work.
I wouldn't quite call it honest pay.
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I wouldn't quite call it honest pay.
Hows that,
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Ooooooh, biting commentary.

I wasn't criticising either of you for it, but you would have noticed if you weren't in such a hurry to find offense at something I said.
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this thread should neither be about the government (or at least not criticizing the government anyway)

i dislike my own government here too, but i leave all of that aside amid this coronacrisis
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Hows that,
You think they were paid fairly?
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You think they were paid fairly?
I was back in the day..

Especially when you were paid for how much picked.
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