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  Vegetáriánusként mondjuk örülnék, ha nem bántanák az állatokat, de hogy zöldségekről is beszéljünk, az is ott fog rohadni a földeken, mert 30 fontos órabérért sem nagyon akarják leszedni a népek

  Why won’t Brits pick vegetables for £30 an hour?

  "Last year, with the pandemic preventing people entering the UK, David Simmons realised he would have to find local people to work on his farm near Hayle, west Cornwall. He went on local TV, appealed on social media and paid for adverts, and was happy with the result: more than 250 people applied for a role. But after ringing every single applicant, only 37 turned up for the induction and, after seven weeks of picking, just one worker was left."
  
  "Despite falling numbers of immigrants looking for work in the UK, for various reasons, Brits aren’t filling the gaps: “[British] people don’t want to work in manual jobs,” says Simmons. These days, you simply can’t get the staff."
  
  "Part of the reason wages are increasing for jobs like this is because the supply of lower-skilled workers is itself exhausted. For decades, hundreds of thousands of seasonal agricultural labourers would come to the UK to harvest our fruit and veg. But a mixture of Covid and post-Brexit changes to work visas meant that, last year, immigration became net negative for the first time in a generation."

  "But if foreign-born workers aren’t doing these jobs, why aren’t the one and a half million unemployed Brits applying for them? A few decades ago, all the manual workers on Simmons’ farm were locals, so the current reluctance of Brits to do the work is, he admits, a frustration. He says that even a generous salary couldn’t motivate the 37 British staff who worked for him last summer. “People didn’t like working outside in the heat because it was summer, they couldn’t get to the fields [on time], and it was hard going on their backs,” he says."

  "As is common in agriculture, his pickers receive a ‘piece rate’, whereby they are paid more the harder they work, but are guaranteed the living wage as a minimum, which is £9.50 an hour; hard-working staff receive more than £20 an hour. But despite the obvious incentive, Simmons struggled to motivate the British staff he hired. “They don’t see the benefit of it,” he says, and it showed in their work rate: last year, his British workers were consistently the slowest, and were thus the lowest paid."

  "One worker, Denis, tells me that he earns so much money working on British farms for six months that when he returns to Ukraine, he barely has to lift a finger the rest of the year. “It’s hard work,” he says, “but I like it. The British don’t like it. They complain it’s very hard work.”

  In fact, the only British worker I find on the farm is 23-year-old Hedley Trenerry. He is immersed in farming: he rears livestock with his dad, and almost all his Cornish friends work in agriculture. “But none of them pick vegetables,” he says. “They drive a tractor or do admin; they don’t do manual work.”"

  "In 1980, just 15 per cent of people were in full-time education after the age of 18, but today, more than half are still studying at that age. With greater education comes an expectation of higher-skilled employment – which means a graduate is far less likely to take manual work, even if it pays well."

  "The other thing stopping Brits adopting the farming life may be that they are simply out of practice. I stop at a food bank in Wadebridge, a few miles from Simmons’ farm, where project manager Jacqui White has noticed that those who come in for help need more than just money: many have been out of work for so long that they have lost the social and personal skills needed to hold down a job. “Those people who have spent 18 months of the pandemic getting benefits or on furlough,” she says, “they think: ‘How on earth would I get up at 5am to work on a farm?’ We have to encourage people to work. We need to teach them the social skills, timekeeping and budgeting.”

  As it stands, the situation could have severe consequences for the British agricultural sector. This year, Simmons estimates that he had to leave vegetables worth upwards of £500,000 to rot in the fields, having been unable to recruit enough staff to pick them."

  "He sees three ways out of this limbo. Firstly, visa rules could change to allow more “lower-skilled” migrants to take seasonal work on farms. Secondly, food prices could increase to cover the cost of paying British workers even more to attract them. Or, finally, many British farms could shut, costing thousands of jobs and leading to increased food imports instead."

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  Hát ba*meg, ez őrület, én azt hittem, öt évvel ezelőtt vicceltek az itt élő ismerőseim, amikor azt mondták, hogy gyakorlatilag nem találni angolt asztalosok, kőművesek, festők és hasonló kétkezi munkás szakmákban, de most már látom, hogy a briteknek tényleg nem dívik ez a fajta meló - egészen addig valószínűleg, amíg vagy nem lesz iszonyú drága a zöldség vagy nem lesz kapható, mert akkor tuti, hogy egymást fogják ölni az emberek az áruért.

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