Post-Brexit: Businesses hit by labour shortages call for Brexit rules to be relaxed
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- As the UK economy begins the long road to recovery, many businesses are wondering: where have all the workers gone?
Covid has seen hundreds of thousands of employees lose or leave their jobs, and in many cases leave the country altogether. From farms to factories and hospitality to haulage, many industries are warning they won't be able to bounce back unless Brexit rules on workers are relaxed.
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I don't see why are people complaining. They've got exactly what they voted for
They were expecting the much cheaper work slaves from the common wealth countries.
yeah a higher wage
But lets be forgiving as the Pope taught us.
If Brits will call me again and give me 20Ł per hour, I will consider fly to their island and working for them again.
Whos complaining? Channel 4? Shock!
@@brettharter143 you haven't seen the video, have you ?
So brits finally got their jobs back, why aren’t they taking it? :D
They won't take it since its hardwork.
@@marktrinidad7650 I'm a Filipino though. Can I take it?!
Bcoz it's not a job for a "boss".
They do not want small or low ranking jobs.
Cause they're used to exploit others to work for them.
@@invinciblecucumber what a stupid comment
People are starting to realise that all these rich well off people have got their luxury lifestyle not via their own ability but on the backs of the people who are actually working hard for low wages 😳
And now they are crying nobody in their own country wants their low paying jobs. 😂😂😂 britain is the joke of the 21st century and im having the time of my life 😂😂😂
or stole it, or changed rules to suit a few, etc....
@@MM-wu2we such as the immigration rules.
Whenever you read "worker shortage", read "shortage of decent wage".
Also I've heard stories of students not offeed jobs even when applying farmers insisting they stay on site been accommodated in disgusting caravans/accomodation working conditions are just as much to do with it agree disagree?
Well, more people sit at home and get welfare, no need to work.
Be a businessman one day. Own your business. We will talk later.
@@marciorosa6346 Oh no! I have to pay people a living wage! The horror! The absolute horror! Quick the government needs to bail me out before I become a poor pauper like the rest of them
@@foolishmuleth6757 be a businessman one day. Own your business. We will talk later.
Brexit voters “foreigners get out of my country. You are driving down wages”
Also Brexit voters “why won’t foreign workers come and work for me, I need cheap, hard-working labour”
"why won’t foreign workers come and work for me, I need cheap, hard-working labour" is what remoaners want and you know it.
@MR .TEA. The single largest determining factor in wage suppression is right wing Brexiteer advocation of the systematic dismantling of collective wage bargaining, not supply and demand as many of the wage suppressing, shareholding foreign billionaire, pro-Brexit peddling, media ruling class will have you believe. If supply and demand influenced wage growth, teachers, doctors and nurses would be on 6 figure salaries.
@Cucking Funt not true at all, I own a business and employ around 20 staff. I would love to pay them more and I think we should be. FYI I will be charging you more Cucking Funt because I will need to pay them more - which I’m sure you will have no problems with! Simples!
@Cucking Funt I’ll try and explain this as simple as possible, as you seem very clued in… if the basic costs go up across the board, prices rise across the board (it’s called inflation). Believe it or not it still rises even if, as you say, an expert on gocompare! 😂
@Cucking Funt Mate there’s honestly no point in me trying to explain because your clearly already an expert and I can’t be bothered educating you. BTW I’m also a millennial 😂😂😂 Nice one. Not sure what age has to do with this, but whatever floats your boat. Take it easy
The Brexit Voters can come and pick all the fruit and vegetables
I would but I have a better paying job thanks to wage increase due to lack of labour 🤷♂️
Iam happy if it worked out for you
👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
They should be forced to pick all the veg.they voted for this mess to happen.
I tried to.. applied to loads of farms up and down the UK in the last few weeks.
Brits before brexit: "go back to your own country"
Brits after brexit: "why are we like this? We lost all of our workers. please bring them back"
@@user-hp5fz3qs1u what are you saying? Please write in proper English
@@user-hp5fz3qs1u will you be working on the fields to get the crops that your supermarkets need to sell to the rest of the country?
@@MarceldeJong no need. We get everything we need From countries
Out side the childish EU. Oh and did you ask the EU
To make your comments
@@kilarymz4life772 clearly that person is incapable of writing in his own language.
@@MarceldeJong K
So where are all of those estate warriors who were shouting that immigrants are taking their jobs ?? 😂😂 I do not feel sorry for all those farmers at all, biggest snobs in England
They're to fucking lazy, whose going to get the dole if they have a job
While you was claiming housing benefits and child allowance 🤣
And who’s going to pay for their dole?? Calling farmers snobs is a bit of a contradiction, considering that they are only trying to produce the food that you eat. Oh buy the way would you like to pay more for the food in your trolley? Then maybe the farmers could pay more for picking it. Farm gate price isn’t what you’re paying but the supermarket giants are cleaning up.
@@seanmcguigan346 I dunno about anybody else but personally I would rather pay a bit more for the food in my trolley if it means the people who helped get the food there in the first place are compensated fairly for their work. Farm labor is extremely hard work, you have to live in the middle of nowhere, and then they don't even pay you well for it. It's not surprising at all that British people won't take those jobs, they have much better alternatives. If you're going to earn minimum wage, may as well be a cashier for a big chain store or something which is comparatively extremely easy work, and the type of job you can get no matter where you want to live. The fact that farmers accuse British people of being afraid of hard work and stuff is just insulting - in reality they are just upset that they lost access to people who don't have any better options, and they wish that British people didn't have better options.
@@seanmcguigan346 maybe farmers in the UK should form an alliance then and open their own chain of supermarkets, they've probably got the money to do it, then the supermarkets can't dictate the price paid for their produce?
I am Romanian and believe me or not I do fcking love the show called Brexit! Everyone choose Germany now! They pay better anyway 😜
As a Romanian i am more interested on what's the future holds for England and Eu
@@vsaucelover9660 Manual labor will be replaced by machines and Britain will be fine.
Cine te.a mintit Viorico ca toata lumea alege Germania? Mergeti tata la sclavie ca nu va tine nimeni aici in regat.. "they pay better anyway" bahahhaha pai daca bagati de.alde 15 ore pe zi(cu pauze fixe)cred si eu ca luati bani frumusei :)))) ..succes in nemtia
Why choose Germany, why not choose Romania?
@@heybabycometobutthead _they can choose whatever they want ,all over EU, including Romania
I remember driving through several local rural areas and some further afield during the Brexit Campaign Season. Without fail, farmers fields had often quite large official “Vote Leave” placards. It was an impressive display of Great British Pluck from our sons and daughters of the soil.
Of course, following the vote they immediately hit their respective panic buttons because their CAP funds were now in serious jeopardy!
“Don’t worry about it” said the Tory Landed Elites and their NFU mouthpieces: the Urban Plebs who voted leave rather like Lemmings charging headlong over The White Cliffs of Dover will bail you out: and lo! Behold it all came to pass.
However, our agricultural masterminds also failed to factor in the scenario that tens of thousands of seasonal workers, predominantly from Eastern European countries, would decide that working the fields of bosses who evidently couldn’t stand the sight of them, and spending their hard earned wages in rural communities that openly despised them were no longer worth the effort. At least for the foreseeable future.
“Don’t worry,” said the ingenious rural Brexit lobbyists: “we have tens of thousands of currently unemployed British Workers who cannot wait to fill the gaps!”
“But they are a bunch of lazy bastards!” Spake the Farmers: “They want more money, longer breaks, sick pay and are not exactly queuing up to work the lands!”
But at least we are now the masters of our own destiny: no longer slaves of the European Tzars who threatened our very way of life.
I just wish the farmers would stop bitching for five minutes. There’s just no pleasing some people is there?
And here endeth today's lesson.
Tomorrow: Fishing for Fun and Profit in post-Brexit Britain.
@Lick The Wrapper You didn't read it because you can't read you moron!
@Lick The Wrapper maybe you should, maybe you would learn something for once in your miserable life.
Great post! 👍🏼
Actually the NFU official position was remain.
Much like restaurants here... it is not a shortage... but a business model built on underpaying the people who do the actual work realizing they don't have easily exploitable pool any more.
The people who frequent these establishments are usually from the higher paid sections of society and would not let their sons or daughters work in those conditions and take the abuse from their customers for the low levels of pay
@@andrewkenny4633 Plenty restaurants have Brits in them, they just don't stick around.
Exactly. My 13 years working as a Chef in many London Hotels, Restaurants and Casinos was spent working with mostly Europeans. The Chefs were mostly from UK but I've never seen a British waiter in any of the places I worked in. The staff were almost always Spanish, Portuguese, Italian or French.
The thing is the workers from other European countries are being payed better than work back home, the UK employers are paying minimum-ish wage compared to UK workers. The EU was a win-win for both parties, no?
100% true .
There isn't a shortage of drivers. There are a shortage of companies willing to pay drivers a reasonable rate.
not a lot of drivers from EU now, so expect wages to go TO THE MOON !
@@morganangel340 well that remains to be seen. Great seeing promises but it means nothing until it becomes a reality
The meme "all of the foreigners have gone away now daddy, how come you still don't have a job" springs to mind.
When we voted to leave we had 3.7% unemployment, if you didn’t have a job you were unemployable.
@@andrew300169 wrong. we had 3.4% unemployment with 8m people 'economically inactive'. now add the pandemic numbers + brexit and you've got the a figure that more accurately represents the state of the economy. tl;dr around 12%
@@scheisskommandant3700 wrong actually the number is 5.8% thanks :)
All those fishermen will make awesum crop pickers...
They have sealegs, the land be too stable for them.
@@stopthecensure6349 Also, they're currently fishing for sympathy
😂😂
Most of the fishermen I know are a bit too heavy set to be good pickers ,the best of them are lithe .
And later when farming is run into the ground, they can all go work in Tim Martin's pubs.
As an eastern European I'd like to say: Thank you BREXIT! For sending my countryman back home, so they can work here. I wish GB good fortune!
No problem Ted. All the best buddy
Yeah right..they only sent the ones without documents maybe..
@@alexpsk1784 Dude, 20 of my 24 schoolfriends working in England came back to homecoutnry bringing bags of money after 10-15 years of working there, now they don't think about going abroad since now in Poland they can work for 8-12 EUR per hour which is f-king a lot and gives them better life than 20EUR per hour in England.
@@krakendragonslayer1909 One of my colleague at work told me that recently...I told him I will consider following him lol. I think if you can have a better pay and live better in your country than there is nothing that can beat that.
@@og3139 But Britain has a wide moat, Polish moat is just Oder and Northern Bug rivers... no match for British one... being in Poland you never know when Germans will invade again
As a man from Bosnia working in Austria and Germany, I never understood why anybody in their right mind would want to go to the UK and work, where you are hated, paid less and have problems to obtain visa's. In Germany most people welcome you, jobs are all around and pay well, and its really easy to get a visa. NEVER go to the UK, even as a tourist I found it expensive, full of rain and clouds and bland. Holiday in Spain Italy and Greece. Ciao
I am with you. Forget England. Scotland is more hospitable. Hopefully it will become independent in a few years time and rejoin the EU.
You are more than welcome to either work, (although the unemployment rate is the highest in Europe and the wages are far lower than in Germany, but there are shortages of carpenters, electricians and construction workers) or enjoy your holidays in sunny Spain.
Personally I love the rain and clouds
"Lack of drivers" you say? How is that possible in "Brexit-land"? I thought that driving a lorry was "a dream come true" for every English person....
@Lee harry enty Well weren't all the EU workers stealing *your* jobs? Go get them!
@Lee harry enty he's obviously being sarcastic, you must not be very English
Oh, yes. That is a well know English adage that dates back to the time of Queen Elizbeth I
Brexiteers are so dumb they don't even understand sarcasm!!!
An English man wants to be either behind a screen or in front of a wheel. I am not stereotyping, people say that :)
"They're stealing our jobs" well this hits different now.
Yeah or they are coming for benefits.... as if British benefits are so fantastic..... they're a pittance!! What a bunch of fools!! 👎👎
Yeah I gave back my job to Brexiteers, worked as a lorry driver (13 and 15 hour shifts) you can have it now, enjoy!
@@bonosbones Most migrants come here to work and have a better life. Heck you won't last a day working these jobs.
No they weren't But the days of cheap labour are gone it's about time employers started looking after their staff and paying what they are worth and training young people to fill the gaps in the market instead of expecting everyone else to do it for them
@@andrewdavis7017 Even with cheap labour migrants earn a lot more than they would back where they come from. Besides they are hard workers. I highly doubt our youths will be able to take these backbreaking labour.
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them...welcome to Brexit reality UK!
I remember bursting with laughter after seeing that "pick for Britain" campaign...it was delusional to think young, entitled British kids who want the CEO job 3 days after graduation will start picking fruit to replace the EU workforce. Let them feel the consequences if what they voted for.
Well, I'm a Filipino (citizen in The Philippines) currently working in Saudi Arabia. I am interested to immigrate in the UK to work as a farm worker even though I have a degree in teaching science education.
I contacted once a potato farm company in the UK and replied that they're currently in talk with government's Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) in finding ways to bring in direct-hire farm workers. But I haven't heard updates since after five months past.
@@reysaj too expensive to bring workers from Asia tbh.
Bet the cost of fruit and veggies go way up. Was that part of Brexit that folks knew was going to happen?
@@Chainyanker007 not really, prices are more or less the same. I mean only a tiny bit of fruit and veg are actually grown in the UK, most of them are imported so 🤷
So you can no longer blamed Europeans for taking our jobs lol
The find a way to plame somebody els. Just wait
@@xythiera7255 yes, that's what overproud butthurd nationalists stuck in the dream of an empire do
They will never stop blaming Europeans for their own shitshow.
Sounds to me like the UK grew out of its own means...
@@xythiera7255 I love how british TV only barks about covid and how it affected the economy copletly missing on brexit at the same time, so typical for brits.
Take back control of something you never lost and lose everything you ever had .
We never had control while in the EU
They should get people who have been on long-term benefits to do the work, otherwise everyone suffers because of losing control since leaving the EU.
@@utubebroadcaster We never had control in the EU
@@deanbryce8263 We literally were in control when we were in the EU, we were the decision makers at the top table.
Now we have no power, no influence are poorer, weaker, and still have to follow EU rules anyway.
Just admit you were scammed 🙄
@@Aarontlondon We had to follow EU rules, now we make our own
- Most people in the UK want cheap/affordable food and foods.
- Most people in the UK want good paying jobs.
- Brexit kicked out cheap seasonal and shipping labour that enabled UK agriculture to effectively run and offer competitive prices.
Why are brits surprised of this? literally everyone that wasn’t biased knew this would happen…
Well it makes sense with Tory alien moon logic. Drinking a liter of vodka then hitting your head on the wall might help it make more sense. 🤡
Who knew that social engineering based on xenophobia can be complicated?
Nice!
This is what Tim Martin campaigned for, what leavers voted for, what they said they understood and now, somehow it is somebody else's fault.
I blame people who voted for leave.
But the government can set it's own targets for migrant labour, I'm sure if the employers pay a fair wage we can still attract workers as we need them, seems to work quite well in Australia
@MR .TEA. Trouble is most of the things you mentioned aren't EU related just poor UK govt decisions. The leavers put the blame on EU for govt failings
The governments of the day were happy to let the EU take the blame for their own failings.
They kept passing the blame when it suited - only for it to come back and bite Cameron's backside in 2016.
Now we all have to pay the price.
What a tangled web we weave in order to deceive.
@@run2cat4run I blame democracy
Get Farage, Banks, Keys and the gang to sort it all out ?
Has anybody seen any of them ?
Yes floating in the pan ,a bit of domestos and a good flush sent them packing .
I've seen Farage in the TH-cam ads shilling his latest scam. And selling messages on Cameo.
They are plaguing the internet with promises to financial investors of the best advice available
Don’t forget Cameron!
It would be indeed nice if those were held accountable.
But do you really want them to sort this out?
I don't know where all of them are now but i know Farage was interviewed by Fox News in the US. It seems there are still people he hasn't fooled yet.
But this is what they wanted, to limit foreigners from coming in so that locals would have a better work market.
Yeah, wages have been down for decades. Now these companies are forced to let go of their cheap slave labor and increase their wages.
Have you seen local people working?
@@edwardvalivonis23 all locals are on benefits, they wouldn't do this job even for £15/h.. Can you imagine a British man all day bending up and down picking cabbages or some other veggies? This job needs to be done even if it's raining, there is no day off because of rain.. British would never do this job.
@@geddoubleg1816 if they don't, then let them enjoy polish vegetables
@@edwardvalivonis23 if they don't let they enjoy fruits from Moldova. Sweet !!!
You have plenty of British people sat at home on benefits drinking cider and smoking all day, put them to work!
Whaaat? And break a nail ?
Talking about drink I speculate that there is a shortage of suitably compliant people in terms of not having a drink driving conviction. Jobs such as care, driving and security will always attract modest premium because not everybody can do it.
That right wing myth. Who can afford to live on 70 pounds a week? Can you? If you think people on welfare are rolling in it, maybe do some actual research.
Wtf are u smoking mate?
@@tangaz5819 well then a job paying £300 pw should have its attractions should it not?
What I really like about Brexit is that there are less fat red alcoholics at our nice mediterranean beaches.
Gammon's are a type of Solar panels, not pretty ones
Trouble is the thick twunts stay here in the UK and decent folk have to put up with them
@Saint Ratus you don't get it. Fatter wages mean more expensive produce and products. For those to be kept affordable, wages are kept low.
@Dana Alexander not too sure about that when they have to start paying extra for visas as they are now non eu
@Dana Alexander LOL, that depends on whether Brits can afford all those visas now. No more buying a cheap holiday deal whenever they please and just jumping on a plane and staying at any EU country of their choice either! Once the lockdown is permanently over, it's going to be a wakeup call to Brits, when they travel aboard and try to return with duty free goods too! Brits have cut off their noses to spite their face!!!🤦🏻♀️
And brexiteers will keep saying it is the Eu fault
Because they are THICK.
Edited: And having read some comments here, I believe they're THICKER than I thought.
@@florafauna5883 The arrogance of remain traitors, you can't make it up
@@florafauna5883 went shopping today didnt notice the food shortage. i have however noticed a housing shortage. 5.4 million people applied to stay after brexit.
@Adam lol and the UK government is working for the people?
Yes o😬😬😬😬😬
Farmers complaining they can't hire slave labour anymore....
They will just have to pay a proper wage now, or go under
@@sheelahales4738 and UK is going extint soon
We are short on staff! why dont you raise the wages? Because that will cost me money!
@@JasperKlijndijk or ‘I’ll have to sell one of my range rovers’
Generally, you don't hire slaves.
Labour shortage == "We don't want to pay a living wage". Let's not forget that farmers voted en masse for this. Turkeys for christmas etc.
Let them enjoy polish aubergines
Brexiters: "immigrants are stealing our jobs"
Employers: "Ok here are plenty of jobs in logistics, hospitality and farming"
Brexiters: "No, I don't want those jobs"
British workers applied for farm work but were refused
Nothing more than prejudiced anti-working class bigotry. People would happily take those takes job if they paid a wage where you didn’t have to live with 9 other people in a two bedroom semi.
The return of slum landlords and exploitative employers. Welcome back Dickinson Britain.
Loool
@@vincentmckenna1755 is that what you believe 😂😂😂
@@maxpowerii7368 and some of those jobs do pay above the working wage but you think the english pubic want to work when thry don't have to loool. Half of them don't want to go school let alone work
That "ending free movement" thing really seems to be paying off...
Get british workers. Stop complaining.
@Cucking Funt Sounds great in theory but in the real world it doesn't work like that. Create a hostile enviroment for foreign labou, where they have to jump through hoops, and you will get worker shortage no matter how lovely visas and permits looks on paper...
@Cucking Funt Really, not hostile? Have you read the news for the past months? Countless reports of the detention of europeans, fingerprinting etc etc etc....
I'm sure people experiencing that and reading about that feel very welcome...
Good luck finding people wyo want to come in
@@susannamarker2582 Not complaining, just looking around and pointing at what everyone can see. The Tories have been in control of everything including the borders for 11 years. Their border policies will continue as they have for 11 years except that they'll need more immigration from outside the EU. British workers are not turning up to pick the vegetables and fruit.
in *every* field in my area (one of the biggest arable areas in the UK) pre 2016, was a massive board saying "VOTE LEAVE!!". Well the farmers got what they voted for so why are they complaining.
I cannot believe that the UKIP supporters are not stepping up to take these jobs?
Jobs 'stolen' from them by migrants! You think they'd be first in the queue wouldn't you?..........
There are 17.4 million Brexiter's and racists out there, sure they would be happy to fill these shortages ?
We would gladly , raise the minimum wages the wouldn’t be a shortage then
@@Dusty357 You can't string a coherent sentence together and you want more money?
@@Dusty357 Trouble with that is Brit's can't do the sort of work immigrants do, , too hard for them they proved that last year, they got one Brit who lasted one day, so much for " These immigrants are taking our jobs." PATHETIC !
@@bugsygoo haha nah pal am fine at £21 a hour am on now thanks 😊
@@franksheekey8096 ya reckon frank hahaha ok
Employ the Brexit voters, they voted for this! 🤣
Particularly the pad wearers. Make them retrain or take their State Pension away, and tax their assets.
Y’all do realize because of having too many people in the job market, it kept wages low but prices high. Now companies are going to be forced to increase wages. It’s simple economics dude.
@@Lilliz91 And the prices will be shifted on to the customers - the well off will not feel it but the poor will struggle.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yep, below minimal wage like the EU worker did ;-)
"There isn't a labor shortage, there is a shortage of business owners willing to pay a living wage"
And too many professionally idle. Cut benefits , job done
It sounds charming getting paid way above minimum wage, but it's terrible news for the consumers. Not to mention it will also make employers cut corners and employ fewer people.
Or even minimum wage.
The whole problem with the post brexit wages is that now England lacks the cheap workers coming from the rest of Europe: those were seasonal workers, who often sent a good percentage of their rent to their family in the home country, where goods are much cheaper.
In the end, those people received wages that that were considered low in England, but completely acceptable in their countries (in the words of a croatian friend of mine: "I'll gladly live a year under a bridge in London to buy a mansion at the balkans"): this was exploited by farms, but now foreign workers find more cons than pros of working in he UK and they have to find someone else.
The problem of hiring English people is that yhey aren't cheap and, to earn enough money to pay their new workers, farms will have to raise the prices of their products.
Now, would the english people, that are facing an economic crisis, pay for an expensive product produced in the UK, or would they instead choose for the same product, but much cheaper because it's exported from Europe? I think we can all immagine what it's going to happen?
@@riccardocarretta3308 I agree with you but our benefits system is far too generous. It encourages people to breed kids they can’t afford. Cut benefits and people turn to crime instead of work. Then they are treated like victims.
Looks like "Project fear" converted to "Project reality".
Good luck finding young and healthy people willing to work for peanuts.
All those Brexit business/women can go get their hands dirty and start picking and packing their own produce, if they don't want to pay a decent wage. In fact ALL those who voted BREXIT should do the same
But they get paid decently perhaps not London wages but actually they get paid well
greetings from Portugal, where we earn peanuts and pay like a rich citizen
630£ / month- normal rent here 250-500£
I bet your childless and by the way is not peanuts minimum wage on 10 hours a day 5 days a week is 1650 odd a month which i as somebody under 24 thinks is quite good to be starting out with
Hey, I like peanuts
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AAAHHHH poor, poor farmers. They'll have to eat into their profits and start paying a decent wage instead of paying migrants cash and avoiding Tax and National Insurance payments.
Before the interviewer allows any moaning they should ask two questions:
1- How did you vote in the referendum?
2- What is your hourly wage for manual labourers?
Sounds like discrimination to me . Thought you guys were all about equality? 'Diversity is our strength' and all that...
@@shaddamiv2212 What on earth are you talking about? Are you being deliberately stupid?
@@MegaTerryNutkins why should an interviewer ask you if you voted Brexit or not?
@@shaddamiv2212 because they are moaning about the consequences of Brexit, something they possibly voted in favour of and dismissed evidence based warnings as fear mongering.
This isn't difficult.
@@MegaTerryNutkins You need to re-read your original post. Writing a coherent sentence really does seem difficult to you,
*BREXITEERS* "This is not the Brexit we voted for"
*REMAINERS* "This is exactly the Brexit we voted against"
Kinda makes you think that one side were living in reality and the other in a nationalistic fantasy land...
Have you seen maga? They got primed into not believing in reality and into this victim reality where everything is done to them and nothing is their responsibility of fault.
Or perhaps businesses are being exposed for relying on cheap labour by exploiting poor people from poorer countries.
@@joco2826 That is a perfectly acceptable critique. I wrote not 30 minutes ago [Im an author] that dirt-cheap prices benefit no one except the giant corporations. It is a fantasy that it benefits the "consumer" and the "low-income family". The reason they are a low-income family is the wage levels needed to offer the dirt-cheap prices.
In 1940 the average man spent 12% of his income on clothing, in 2015 the average man spent 3% but bought 5 times the quantity of clothing as the 1940's man.
Wearing a garment an average of 5 times before throwing it away...
@@goblinwisdom Funnily enough a news reported coined a new term for it today "Victim Envy"
@@piccalillipit9211 interesting take. Does your book(s) cover this subject matter?
These "Brexiteers can work the farms" comments are cracking me up.
The problem is these same Brexiteers are probably too old(on average) to do so and will pass on the buck of picking fruits and veg to the "lazy" youngesters who didn't vote Brexit.
huma.
But they're not mate. According to polls it's mostly young people who can't find jobs. So now they can.
Before you comment: No. I am not old either.
There are some vids out there explaining why young people can't do it. Aside from their low efficiency compared to EU workers it is the distance from home to work. The old pickers used to live temporarily on the land in caravans and such. No transport cost. UK citizens however, live in a city/town. Therefore they have to bridge the distance to a field. There usually isn't any public transport in those agricultural areas, therefore they need a car. Fuel and a car consume your income before receiving it, bringing you into the negative. This is the reason it is not feasible with current wages.
Too old or too fat. You won't get the fat brexiteer slugs doing any work; they'd much rather be sitting in Spoons with a pint and a burger&chips.
One thing is for certain: remoaners never plan to do any physical labour. Their univeristy education exempts them from that. They expect EU labour to do that and if not then British labour.
@@susanelliott2287 I'd bet that you've never done real manual labour. It's repetitive and grueling. Is Susan the UK version of Karen?
There is not such thing like a shortage of workers , there is a shortage of cheap workers
Correct
@@HyperiPoro you think a 20/30/40 year old brit would go and pick fruit even if it was 12 £ an hour? where do you live dude? only people who are really in ned would do that.. then because of that they get exploited by some.. but nothing to do with stealing jobs ahahahhaahah
@@morepanic2289 who pissed in your cornflakes?
@@HyperiPoro who pissed in your brain dude? ahahahahahah
@@morepanic2289 lol get some help imagine acting like a child because you have a different opinion.
Brexit: The morning after.
Like it or not, Brexit has happened, and people need to start looking forward to a new reality. This means a big shift in the way a lot of things are done and the way people think. "Immigrant jobs" are now for the locals - so reskill and get to it. Business owners will have to pay more for labour, so stop whining and adjust your business model. Lots of people who voted for this Brave New World are now trying to cling on to the old one.
Being from Scotland and living in Germany it’s quite refreshing tae see the UK struggle because of it’s stupid Brexit . Funny thing is that we all in Europe could see this coming, the only ones that couldn’t because of greed were the English Brexit politicians. #DissolveTheUKUnion.
I think the Brexit politicians knew exactly that Brexit would be a disaster, but they are in thrall of disaster capitalists like Jacob Rees Mogg and Arron Banks. It was only ever about harming the working class and emptying their pockets for the gain of a few billionaires. Covid was another gift for them. Track and Trace, Op. Moonshot etc; is just the final looting of our economy before the collapse.
YThe scots always were down through histroy a treahcerous lot-.I live in Germany Im British and I am delighted that remainers were slapped in the face by this.
@@MrYorickJenkins You are an immigrant who will soon be deported from the EU too.
@Cucking Funt If that is the case, why do they vote in such large numbers for the SNP?
Aha, a self proclaimed Scot who professes to speak for everyone in Europe. Brexit was more about cheap labour - the fast UK vaccine rollout is proof of that.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions" - Britain
@@paulies5407 The extra money you talk of where's that coming from? Only way you'll be getting paid extra is if you work more hours to fill in the gaps in employment left by Brexit.
This is hilarious, literally the only reason they voted for brexit
@Stephen Valentine UK can't pick the produce. So where is the extra money coming from?
@@paulies5407 mate, i hope that happens. But is it likely? Brits working in the fields? And is it really a life you want for ya kids? Backbreaking work in the sun? Isn't it more likely, rather than raising wages enough that Brits start apply, that they keep raising the seasonal worker quota until it's just enough for most businesses? These clowns don't solve problems, they just kick them into the long grass and hope it'll be the next guy's problem once they're long gone.
@@Gav_80085 the problem is those lazy sod's on the dole and the disability, dossing around all day on our taxes. If there were no handouts from the taxpayer they would work or starve, simples. No need for migrants and in fact wages can be cut to a meal a day and they will still work.
Poor guy cant exploit cheap labor from overseas any more, a real tragedy
you think a 20/30/40 year old brit would go and pick fruit even if it was 12 £ an hour? where do you live dude? only people who are really in ned would do that.. then because of that they get exploited by some.. but nothing to do with stealing jobs ahahahhaahah
This sounds great a lack of workers means that companies need to bid against each over for workers increasing salaries.
And the inflation. Good luck with that.
Until it is cheaper for the farmer to import the vegies rather than grow them. The same science is applied to manufacturing in the UK. Purchase and resell rather than manufacture and sell.
Project Reality never disappoints
@Stephen Valentine £9 per hour isn't bad for picking fruit. They should get people who have been on benefits for years to do the work, literally for peanuts
@@utubebroadcaster these guys just don't realise that there are many many businesses paying minimum wage, but they believe that these people are getting less (some might be, but they should at least get minimum wage).
Haha...yeah😉
@Stephen Valentine These workers would fly in from Bulgaria or somewhere like that for the season, earn a few thousand pounds, and go home after the harvest. The few thousand is worth a lot more in Bulgaria. They would come back year after year. That’s finished now.
€9 per hour might be ok for picking veg, but because farms are far from where people live, you would have to live in the accommodation the farm provides. It’s physically tough work too. How many unemployed Brits want that? Well done Brexiteers, you are a bunch if geniuses.
"allow foreign drivers in" kinda arrogant that you think eu drivers want to come to Brexit land.
Lol. How do you think the EU manages to trade with the rest of the world?
@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 False equivalency. He is most likely, but wasn't specific, talking about getting his goods to a UK supermarket chain distributer.
@@adambrickley1119 But you seem to think that people from EU member states never work outside the EU? What do you think they're afraid of? Been watching too much Channel 4 news, perhaps?
@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 I know for a fact that the UK ( not just anywhere outside the EU) is not as appealing to EU workers now as before Brexit. My gf is a scientist, german and spent 10 years in the UK. She wont go back. There a lots like her. The UK just isnt as desirable as it used to be. Rather than argue with me.....hang on 12 months and see.
They can`t wait to drive on the other side of the road...
The proportion of household income spent on food has more than halved over the past 60 years. In the UK food is now cheap, too cheap. Pay British farmworkers a good wage and learn to pay more for your food. Maybe we'd waste less food in the process.
You do realise that this will cause a domino effect and in the and will reduce £ value? If people will pay more for food,less stay in their budget. And that will affect prices of other products and services as food would be more expensive. Another issue is that English don't want to work in hospitality sector, not to mention doing farm work. I know what I mean as I been working on the hotel industry and 8/10 Brits didn't survived the probation period
Quite shocking, employers are so desperate they are having to pay to train people. My goodness!
I don't understand why EU citizens still want to work in the UK , they throw you in jail at the border , let them sort it out themselfs .
They don't. Have you seen the figures?
I’m an EU citizen, and I don’t want to work in the UK. Actually, I’m not even considering tourism there anymore, despite many previous visits. You don’t visit the house in which more than half of the inhabitants have let you know that they are NOT fond of you, even when you know that less than half are. It’s sad, I used to love going there … 😢
@Cucking Funt issue is consecutive conservative governments CHOSE not to have stricter immigration rules like many EU countries do we didn’t need to leave the EU at all
Brexit means brexit doesn't it?
@Charlie Munster Brexit lets make fish happy fish again it work no fishers to see every were. Uk took back there waters . Fish now happy
Scotland and the occupied part of Ireland did not vote for this.
Yes out is out!
@Charlie Munsterhopefully.
I'm starting to get the feeling Brexit was not about labor and was more about "who" was doing the labor
There's only a shortage because they don't pay nearly enough. The producers have been too spoiled by cheap labour and won't take a pay cut themselves.
@@lolalola2592 No... it's because the producers have been spoiled by having workers that would accept minimum wage and poor conditions for many years. Brits are often willing to work but not for a pittance. I have yet to see a poor farmer. Similarly, the transporters (lorry drivers) are also treated vvery poorly and now, just when we need them most, there are tens of thousands of them that can drive in the UK but will not return to the industry because the pay and conditions are too poor for them to risk their lives every day driving among the idiots that are on british roads.
Just hire workers and drivers from Australia instead. Global Britain!
Just hire all those Uber drivers scooting about the country
Can't the farmer just import a load of kangaroos and train them to pick the crops?
Or maybe get them from India, they seem to want easier visa access into Britain.
@@maartenderooij2897 offcourse Patel is there to help that
The UK can't get salad from Australia. So what now?
Constipation?
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Yes, Constipation.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 😂😂😂
Frozen salad? Or bring the Concorde back. How much Australian salad can it load? Or, shocking, pay higher wages for the pickers.
Simple question: I thought it was to protect UK jobs? What’s happening British people? Don’t want to get your hands dirty?
Maybe if business paid a better wage there wouldn't be a worker shortage.
you will soon go bankrupt on food price inflation, wait for it. workers will get a "fair" price and you can work the jobs you didnt want to do:) lazy bums
Not if you get a job that pays a bit better than the minimum wage and stop using rip off supermarket giants, I dont think people are lazy as a whole they are just pissed off with being exploited, and now the business sector has lost to many of its foreign cheap labour they are having to give better wages to carry on trading as we are seeing in the transport and industry, warehousing sectors.
@@paulatradies1942 brits have high demands, but doesnt want to do anything; lot of people live on free goverment money, while the immigrants did the cheap labor work. Now the same people who didnt want to work, voted for brexit lol
You have high living standard in UK (good wages, low cost of food (believe me), but high rental costs)(i guess i may be biased, by where you live in UK). You have affordable stuff only because the imigrants are willing to work for cheap money.
Now gaps in economy will create holes in economy and everyones industry will be affected (higher prices in store, smaller wages)
@@CitsVariants a bit unfair to tar everyone with the same brush, yes their are some people that live off the state and I know a quite a few immigrants who do aswell and when people are working and have to have tax credits to make up their monthly wage just so they can make ends meet then their is something wrong and it's not the public to blame it's the greed of businesses and governments and I also know a lot of immigrants that say they make no more money here than they do in their homeland or any other European country, except Greece and Italy but that's why we voted out of Europe because of the greed of the European parliament and the never ending influx of immigrants who already where filling our infrastructure to bursting point whilst we paid for their nhs and other taxes before they where able to find work, and hey if you feel that your working for peanuts while the so called over privileged English are sitting on their arses reaping your rewards then your deluded my friend.
No, don't relax Brexit rules at all, the amount of tourists going to Ireland has gone up. Just sit there and lose your money while we roll in the dough.
well, at least the EU can make some money on brexit with tariffs and fees. So let the British ENJOY their 'victory'
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Best wishes from Poland to our Catholiic brothers
They can only relax those rules if the EU agrees. And I am sure our friends in Brussels have better things to do than having those Brits over again for a chat. Love from Holland. Take care
@@krakendragonslayer1909 god bless you
*I LIVE IN BULGARIA NOW* I know literally dozens of people who have come back from the UK. They have NO INTENTION of returning.
Racism, cost of accommodation rising, paperwork, problems at the border, how they have been treated generally are the reasons given... Other EU countries are crying out for them.
Transport companies having to invest money on training? Heaven forbid!
abey I can applay theses jobs what I need todo . there is no explotation where is the people from africans workers . they do not go the united kingdom. maybe. they are explotatitor do you know maybe how mamy migrants they are not british guys
When the farmers go out of business, we can build affordable housing on the land.
If people want to move to rural areas , there would be affordable housing
And then buy all your food from abroad so you don't starve to death.
"Brexit, taking back control", the gift that just keeps on giving.
Let’s ignore the extra jobs creates by Brexit, God forbid we should be balanced as we refuse to let go of a self-defining opinion.
In my opinion freedom from the E.U and their petty rules and regulations and one sided deals is far better than farmers/growers finding out that they can't get staff because they've got used to paying pennies per hour for labour.
@@thesethreekings numbers, articles with facts that support this statement? Cause you know, it's no mystery that several companies preventively moved some of their departments outside England, before Brexit hit, that is especially true in the financial sector.
@@susanelliott2287 Ok
Which rules have harmed you and which rules have been implemented even though the UK could use a veto?
@@susanelliott2287 " petty rules and regulations" 95% of that rules created or voted for by the UK in the last 45 years , hypocrisy at it's best ......
Brexit means Brexit.
Ah! Ah!
Pinoccio England 🤥 the only place were even the lies get dizzy from being spun.
@@mikedutch6113 Ah! Ah! This is fantastic - and sadly, very true... with professional lyers at the very top
And what does that mean?
Uk powers is lunatic clowm boris johnson patriotism like toxic poisoning mind these people who vote leave uk believe their leader whom failed own people.
The EU will be happy to supply Britain with fresh vegetables and other produce.
🤣🤣🤣Yeah, and make those brits pay for the imports
@@tomaszzalewski4541 🤣
:)))))))))))
Yes to polish aubergines
Good, this means more money for British workers.
Stfu..you're too lazy to get a job..
@Tiberius Zann No supermarket is going to pay farmers more for produce when importing it is cheaper. Several farms have already declared bankruptcy because they can't find workers. The next few weeks will undoubtably have higher prices though as crops have failed.
"what a rebounding economy needs is labour" that's a fitting statement.
But cheap labour from the EU working in poor conditions and pushing up house prices through a rising population. I see this as exploitation and I am surprised Labour supporters fell for it.It is not even as though many Brits were heading the other way either.It is massively one sided use of low wage workers.
@@nihilistcentraluk442 Housing prices aren't being jacked up by low wage workers.
@@FuriousImp but they are if net immigration is 250,000 a year and houses can be rented.
@@nihilistcentraluk442 No it really isn't, the baby boomers and "investors" who at times buy up hundreds of homes and leaving many of them empty to try and jack up that price are responsible. Besides - you really think kicking out, according to you, 250000 foreigners will do wonders for your economy?
@@FuriousImp nobody is suggesting kicking out 250000 people
Where have all the workers gone? Are they serious? What about not feeling welcome anymore?
There still 5 million here, how many do you want?
Really. Did the UK force EU workers onto cattle trains to be deported back to their native lands.
If so, why aren't we doing this with the benefit seekers?
“…Immediately, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart regarding the people, and they said: “Why did we do this and release Euroel from serving as slaves for us?” (Brexodus 14:5)
Nooiiiiiice!!
Boris Johnson will bring beautiful fruits and vegetables on your tables
+Happy fish
Straight from Poland 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We are seeing the same phenomenon stateside. I don't think that it's a shortage of workers but rather a shortage people willing to work for low pay. Fix the pay and that will fix the labor situation.
Very tight profit margins. You don't mind paying more for your food then to offset increased cost of labour?
The Brexit gammon is just too lazy to accept those hard jobs in the food production industry...
You only spend your pay check on food?
Shocking, who’d have guessed.
Ohhhh so this is the ‘freedom’ they where telling us about. I get it now. 😐
"logistics is a very low margin business"
So go up the chain, make supermarkets pay you more and then pay more to the drivers and so on down the chain.
I will bet that the profit margin of supermarkets isn't 1 or 2%.
That sweet, sweet, Brexit. Play silly games, win stupid prizes.
Our vaccination rate is a pretty good prize. It's easier to train people new skills than bring them back from the dead.
@@leer5858 Hmm yes, that will really make up for the fact that now massive tariffs have been placed between you and your biggest trading partner...
the australian deal will decimate the agriculture anyway, no need for more workers soon
Decimate means 10%. It's going to be much worse than that.
@qrtsfg Not every farmer will die out if you are big enoth you can make it work. Just most farmers are small.
@@PORRRIDGE_GUN *Halve
@Cucking Funt welcome by whom?
Stuff that has to be shipped from Australia will be more expensive due to shipping and packaging costs, no ?
The problem is that a lot of the unemployed British workers live in the cities and the available work is in the country side, how do they commute to the country side? Also, the cost for Common Wealth workers to come here from their countries is so high that it makes no sense for them to come here on short term work visas and the Eastern Europeans have the same opportunities in 27 other EU countries that the UK is just no longer an attractive option. Also, why would EU workers want to come to a country that they know they are no longer welcome in?
Get ya own people to do the work .Not other countries to save you . England is a shambles
Plenty of jobless UK citizens, me being one of them, where's my call up for working the fields? Oh that's right, jobs aren't a right (as they should be) and some Tory famer who probably voted for Brexit doesn't want to pay workers a living wage.
Well, unfortunately, these are the jobs on offer. Wait til politicians start stripping back regulations and protections.
And miners as well actually, same goes for pottery worker and miners in my home city, Stoke-On-Trent all sold out by suits
So Phil, you know theres an opportunity there on a farm, why don't you go and apply, rather than wait for the call? Honest question
@@richardtuxford1812 There's none being advertised, I suspect they'd rather wait on a bail of public money rather than find a labour force they have to pay properly
@@TheWaveGoodbye-Music I've just looked on indeed and there have been 303 jobs under farm worker posted in the last fortnight, and several of them look like they are for multiple roles. A further 180 adverts on 4xtrahands. This is usually the tip of the ice berg of what a recruiter will actually have on their books tbh. Maybe some farmers are trying to gain the system, but I suspect there are lots of opportunities for some point who is unemployed and genuinely wants to work in farming. Whether they pay the going wage is another question
British jobs, for British people. So, where are the brits? 😎🤔
On the dole cringing at the jobs
Well most are working considering uk has the the 7th lowest unemployment figures as of June 2021 0.1 more than Germany out of 33 countries and with only Germany having a similar size population the others have far smaller populas. Poland, Croatia, Malta, Netherlands Norway, Germany so we are doing prity good 👍on the old unemployment.
I feel sad for the one that voted stay but had to accepted the brexit option
I feel sad when people let idiots talk over them
What about all these doctors & engineers that come over on their high-end rafts? They appear to be more welcomed than eastern Europeans, so maybe you can employ them if we're so bad?
"Welcome to the Brexit, sir" - A wise Dutchmen said
I'm sorry.
A wise *Dutchman*
Two wise *Dutchmen*
THE WISE DUTCHMAN HAS A SHIP
@Charlie Munster No it isn’t.
The EU couldn’t even handle vaccines.
@@lesserspottedmugwump.363 that was just at the start. You still on that?
Lots of fishermen that now can work the fields - and once cheap Aussie beef kills of the farmers who produced home grown beef, they can work the field as well. Also some bankers can turn lorry drivers. After all, thats what people knew they voted for. Or so they claim.
@qrtsfg what are you driveling about? Here is an advice that may come in handy to make you sound less of an idiot: punctuation helps to make a point. Or sound cohesive.
Else you just sound like a 3year old who recently discovered a keyboard and is randomly slamming at it to make things appear on screen.
I dont think bankers voted leave>
Just because we have a minimum wage does not mean that half of the British work force should actually be taking home the minimum wage, This is the problem these large multinationals are only willing to pay low wages and are not willing to train or invest in their workforce hence the transport boss stating we are even now willing to pay half the training cost Really ? why not pay the full amount and have the employee sign a contract to say if you leave within 2 years you have to pay the training back in full, You reap what you sow if you look after your workforce and pay and treat them well your more likely to retain the majority of your workforce but most managers are shortsighted and are only looking at the next quarters figures instead of working towards a long term plan.
This is temporary. It's better to have own currency than being tied to common debt
I don’t know if you remember but we had our own currency before Brexit. It is unfortunately worth 15% less.
I’m shocked! What happened to the tracksuit clad heroes screaming about foreigners stealing their jobs...
nearly half the working force in UK didn't participate enough before to even pay income tax, can't imagine now. But tHeY hAvE FrEe HeALtHcArE 🥴
Most track suit wearers are young. Most young people voted remain. Over 50's tory supporters would not be seen dead in a track suit.
The tracksuit wearing mantra which you describe was just an excuse. That said, many jobs are insecure and pay badly. The dole pays badly but is at least secure.
They are busy picking fruit in the fields.
Over 50s and over 65s wearing tracksuits I don't think because the over 50s and over 65s had the largest turnout and voted at average of 62% for leave silly comment to make when you don't look at the facts.
My heart bleeds for them. The have been drunk on a cheap labour model for decades and now that the cheap EU source has dried up and the Indian variant has stopped govt importing cheap Indian labour they will just have toinvest in automation or pay British people a living wage just like the Germans, Swiss, Norwegians and every other advanced country.
Do you think Norwegians pick their own cabbage?Or Germans in Germany?In Germany only they need 300000 "pickers"every year paying minimum wage for very hard work.In Norway Covid stopped foreigners from coming,so farmers wanted to hire Norwegians,surprisingly not many applied,and from those who did many resigned after few days-work is too hard and to reach the welfare level of income you need to be good and work a lot,so they'd rather stay home.So,I don't know where did you get your info from-it's false.
As a german I would like to points out that living costs in germany are way higher than in the UK. As someone earning less than £37,500 i pay 20% income tax in the UK. In germany i paid more like 50% including social care and health insurance. I also used to pay about 200 a month for electricity and heating while now with a house in the UK i pay about 500 a year. The higher wages come with higher prices in everything else. To be fair that does pay for a much better health care system and free university education. Its a give and take!
@@yvonneketteler + we still need seasonal workers from eastern europe, we just don't hate them like the brits.
@@timokohler6631 it's not true. My husband is a lorry driver. He meets nice and smiling people very rare.
@@agnieszkadorota1248 There are no nice and smiling people in Germany.
"We should allow foreign drivers in." Get Brexit done!
Should read "Get Brexit undone"
They'll have to pay more to bring workers in. Prices will go up for the consumer. Its basic economics. Unfortunately we let the average man on the street make a decision about the most complex issue in politics.
How about Little Englanders doing their jobs themselves as they are sovereign finally.
Welcome to the Brexit.
Have a lovely happy mackerel with the Heinz ketchup.
Exactly, most are to bone unless to work
You realise the ‘Little Englanders’ were the politicians who opposed the British Empire, colonialism and ‘Big Britain’ right? Insults from the people who don’t even understand history. Life is truly funny.
@@maxpowerii7368
Max.
You do realize there is a difference between the 18th /19th century and the 21st.
May be exactly this lack of understanding is the reason for Brexshit and the stupidity of Leave voters in Little England. They are truely Little Englanders.
@@cyberkraut5139 you think I’m going to debate a bitter xenophobic moron? Lol yeah no.
@@maxpowerii7368
Oh dear!
Hoist by its own petard. Well done UK.
...and they still don't want to pay a decent hourly rate for HGV drivers. DVLA stats show there are more than 50000 drivers that choose not to work in the industry because of the low wages compared to the risk and the long hours, and they still try to do anything and everything to avoid actually paying a decent rate.
But surely there'd be plenty of people available to do the job, the same people who were complaining that foreigners were taking their jobs?