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Vic said:
Pity we missed this as Project Fear.

Gardeners face shortages and price hikes if we leave.

www.hortweek.com

Growers 'front end' imports and won't quote prices post-Brexit

Growers 'front end' imports and won't quote prices post-Brexit - from HortWeek
www.hortweek.com www.hortweek.com

Sorry, that's a paywall. So far as I can see, only one paper carried the story.

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Sounds like a great opportunity for UK growers to expand their business - I'm assuming we have similar climactic conditions to the Netherlands.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Sounds like a great opportunity for UK growers to expand their business - I'm assuming we have similar climactic conditions to the Netherlands.
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Not exactly - our west coast gets the prevailing Atlantic winds and weather - we effectively shield parts of places like the Netherlands - plus when cold air moves East in the winter They get freezing weather because the air moves across a frozen European land mass. It warms ( that being a relative term ) crossing the North Sea to us so we have slightly milder winters.

The other issue is the same will apply to food imports so we need to grow our own too. So question - do we turn land over to carrots and peas or roses and lavender - remember one of the reasons for all this is we are supposedly a small country and there is no room for more of "them" hence we had to get out of the EU. You can't manufacture more land - not unless you are Dutch anyway.

And it comes down to the lack of pickers - whether its sprouts for your Christmas dinner or tulips for your auntie Nelly's living room somebody is needed to pull them.
 
bluethrunthru said:
Not exactly - our west coast gets the prevailing Atlantic winds and weather - we effectively shield parts of places like the Netherlands - plus when cold air moves East in the winter They get freezing weather because the air moves across a frozen European land mass. It warms ( that being a relative term ) crossing the North Sea to us so we have slightly milder winters.

The other issue is the same will apply to food imports so we need to grow our own too. So question - do we turn land over to carrots and peas or roses and lavender - remember one of the reasons for all this is we are supposedly a small country and there is no room for more of "them" hence we had to get out of the EU. You can't manufacture more land - not unless you are Dutch anyway.

And it comes down to the lack of pickers - whether its sprouts for your Christmas dinner or tulips for your auntie Nelly's living room somebody is needed to pull them.
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Sounds like some sort of polythene tunnel may be required. Building to house all the newly expanded agricultural industry you describe also. Unparalleled opportunity for growth from just this one small aspect of brexit.
 
hilts said:
Bloody 3 armed Europeans
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Not really just another realisation that jobs that are called low skilled when they mean low paid by people who are over paid and under skilled to do their jobs that emerged this year. Picking soft fruits ain't easy unless you only want to make jam then a basket of squashed fruit may be good enough - however a basket a day is useless when the skilled Eastern European workers does dozens of baskets per day. Finally too few of the Brits that applied actually turned up to work on day one and only a fraction tuck around for day 2.......
 
bluethrunthru said:
Not really just another realisation that jobs that are called low skilled when they mean low paid by people who are over paid and under skilled to do their jobs that emerged this year. Picking soft fruits ain't easy unless you only want to make jam then a basket of squashed fruit may be good enough - however a basket a day is useless when the skilled Eastern European workers does dozens of baskets per day. Finally too few of the Brits that applied actually turned up to work on day one and only a fraction tuck around for day 2.......
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We need to end the modern day slavery of Eastern Europeans being poorly paid to do what is actually skilled work. Just because they are white and the crop isn't cotton we seem to think this is ok - I admit I'm part of the problem buying punnets of soft fruit without giving it a thought
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
We need to end the modern day slavery of Eastern Europeans being poorly paid to do what is actually skilled work. Just because they are white and the crop isn't cotton we seem to think this is ok - I admit I'm part of the problem buying punnets of soft fruit without giving it a thought
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well the choice is simple then - enslave our own people to pick fruit on atrocious wages OR eat home grown fruit starting at least at £10 per punnet
 
Those poor fucking strawberries.

I see it's fruit and veg day today on here ;-)
 
hilts said:
Wow enslave other people then

Nice one

The caring left everyone
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You call it enslavement. How come if the wage you can earn in Romania is say £4 per hour but you can come and pick fruit here at £10 per hour thats enslavement but if a doctor can get say £45k pa here or go to say the states and get $150k pa thats bettering themselves - a very selective view put on earnings through the Brexit prism
 
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