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Boris...

  • should completely lock us down immediately and fook up all our Christmas'

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • let the bodies stack high

    Votes: 13 54.2%

  • lock us down from the 29th to fook up Treble's plans

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Total voters
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brb said:
Apple and pear picking is a piece of piss, i can't see it's changed much from my day, most trees now are dwarf stock, you fill a cloth bag with your pickings, which you then empty into a bin, you get paid by the bin load. Once one bin is full, a farm hand will tractor them away and leave another bin, I can't think the job would have changed that much. Used to be weekend work, which was excellent if you needed some extra income.
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Most of it will be automated in the next decade anyway .
 
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Julian Edelman said:
Most of it will be automated in the next decade anyway .
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Shame really, because I'd say if you are young and have the time, do it, especially in the current weather. The farmer is generally no hassle, he just leaves you to it, he just wants the crop picked. Anything that's on trees, even older people can do, it's just the stuff on the ground, you need to leave for younger backs.
 
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Julian Edelman said:
Just a question for some of you lazy bastards sat at home doing **** all whilst I'm keeping the country going :emoticon-0165-muscl.
Does anybody see any harm in going for a bike ride in the countryside where there is no body about ???
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Yes - you might run over Aberdude.
 
Julian Edelman said:
We will see how many turn up to work and how many will last more than a day or 2 .
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No mate, the answer was in the original quote...

workers “who have been temporarily displaced due to Covid-19 are now looking for roles in other sectors”.

i.e. this changes nothing. People who work will always want to work. The ones who don't are still sitting on their arses <ok>
 
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Welshie said:
So the obvious solution is to continue using EU schemes to important workers, often paid below British minimum wage, to pick fruit in order to ensure we don't seem xenophobic.
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What EU schemes paying less than the minimum wage are these?
 
I reckon loads of people will break the lock-down this weekend, and the cops already know it, that's why the are making the media messages that they are sending out. The only saving grace will be if it pisses it down.
 
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brb said:
I reckon loads of people will break the lock-down this weekend, and the cops already know it, that's why the are making the media messages that they are sending out. The only saving grace will be if it pisses it down.
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Trouble is , it's meant to be Glorious !
 
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Welshie said:
So the obvious solution is to continue using EU schemes to important workers, often paid below British minimum wage, to pick fruit in order to ensure we don't seem xenophobic.
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Like I said earlier, when I did fruit picking, you were paid by the bin - you weren't paid by the hour, so I'm not sure how minimum wage fits into it, unless they pay them by the hour now, been a few decades since I done it.
 
I've just come back from a weekly shop at Tescos. Stood in a queue with easily 350+people in front of me weaving around a great big fck off car park. Took me 50 mins before I got in. They were kind enough to be handing out water bottles to the queuing people. Then a queue to be served at the till. All in all 1 hour 45 mins. I was at the same Tesco a week ago and was in and out inside 20-25 mins.

WTF was that all about? I put it down to the Bank Holiday weekend but wondered how that was any different to any other day at the moment as nobody can go out anyway. Strange one.
 
brb said:
Like I said earlier, when I did fruit picking, you were paid by the bin - you weren't paid by the hour, so I'm not sure how minimum wage fits into it, unless they pay them by the hour now, been a few decades since I done it.
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Treble said:
I've just come back from a weekly shop at Tescos. Stood in a queue with easily 350+people in front of me weaving around a great big fck off car park. Took me 50 mins before I got in. They were kind enough to be handing out water bottles to the queuing people. Then a queue to be served at the till. All in all 1 hour 45 mins. I was at the same Tesco a week ago and was in and out inside 20-25 mins.

WTF was that all about? I put it down to the Bank Holiday weekend but wondered how that was any different to any other day at the moment as nobody can go out anyway. Strange one.
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Easter weekend and BH shop hours plus Sunday closed.
 
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