50,000 brits signed up to be fruit pickers ...112 turned up for work

Here we go the resident Brit hater and his fruity posts

50,000?  Where did you get this figure from.

Where are the gammon faced gentlemen wiith beer guts and tatts all over them,probably die of a heart attack if they did a days graft useless tubs of lad..

A bit like you  TROTSKY.... Bout time you went in a care home...

Efforts to recruit British fruit and veg pickers have been dealt a blow as it emerged only 112 people out of 50,000 applications have taken up roles.

Thousands who responded to the Government’s appeal for a new land army have dropped out as they have discovered the reality of the eight-hour a day job picking crops in all weathers potentially miles from home.

From the 50,000 applications expressing interest to the Alliance of Ethical Labour Providers, one of the main contract suppliers to farms, just 6,000 opted to complete the video interview for a role.

Where are the patriots?

Leave.EU were calling for the return of National Service again, get the patriots doing their bit for the country

taken up gammon farming instead ....

Found out there are no glamping wig-wams !

only 112 brexiteers left of working age then,

Get fruit-picking done

no fruit picking is better than a bad fruit picker

Funny how they always want other people to do things they won't do themselves,selfish cants..

ill pick the fruit and veg if they pay me £20 an hour

oh cash in hand aswell

£10 / hr would suit me if I didn't need to travel longer than 20 minutes.  No problem at all.

millions upon millions of facebook posts from brexiteers
we,ll pick the fruit
we,re prepared to take years of a financial hit for Brexit

within 6 weeks of a killer virus both blew out of the water,crying into their banana/blackberry free porridge about trying to live on 80$ of their wages

BREXIT IS DEAD

GSTQ!

Grant, would you do it for 12 quid ph and all the pizza you can eat

SOLD!

Hundreds of Europeans, homeless on the streets of London after being sacked from the hospitality trade, would jump at the chance.

you'd break them

latest list of Brexiteer demands
must give china a bloody nose instead of fta
trump must be allowed to win election
EU must change their politics in next 2 weeks,
we,re not prepatred top take a financial hit
we,re not prepared to pick fruit
migrant nhs/care/essential workers must be given pay rise,uk nationality,honoured through the honours system,

struggle to get that little lot on the side of a bus

Six in a caravan,but you get your own plunger..

All the Fake Refugges in holding centres should be put in chain gangs and taken daily to the fields... thay then might fook off back to their own sh1toles

oh and their offering £10,000 reward for any sightings of
bill cash
mark francois
andrea Jenkins
Andrew bridgen
peter bone and mrs bone
owen pattison

Eat as many strawberries as you like.....What's not to enjoy !

Life must be hilarious in the woundedknee household during the lockdown. Hope he lives on his own!

"All the Fake Refugges in holding centres should be put in chain gangs and taken daily to the fields... thay then might fook off back to their own sh1toles"

"1000s of filth still landing on our shores...they may stop buying the dinghis"

wounded would have been the first to help round up the jews in 1930s Germany

nearly right blacky... i have my own living room seperate from the mrs

Wrong crops where I live , I would have done a couple of days a week

just been treading about a bloke who got through tests usually on 70 k a year,said it was obviously designed to put people off
set of basic questions to see if your suitable
then 7 detailed questions about your past,aspiration,evidence of team working,leadership etc etc
answers on 7 different individual video calls
said he wanted job maximum of an hour away offered him one 5 hrs away,and one 6 hours away so refused job,

blindingly obvious some Bulgarian with broken English doesn't sit same test

There will be an Extra question for Some .is  3 quid an hour OK ,is added on ?  Previous 7 irrelevant

at least they didn't ask you how to make the Sydney harbour bridge out of boxes and balloons and video it,

and yes ive been there,

I am already at work key worker driving a wagon a credit to the nation and a Brexit man through and through not like some of these hideaway remainers save our NHS hide under the duvet or better still get back in the closet

Some tripe written on this thread.

Simple really. The youth are too soft these days and do not have a work ethic. Oh, most are fat too.

wonder why these fruit pickers jobs not advertised  in job centres

just tried for one this is what i had back


Welcome back! Here's the latest Farm Work Fruit Picking job in The United Kingdom.
Support Worker -
SUPPORT WORKER Benefits £9.70ph Welcome Bonus of £500*(T&Cs Apply) 35 hours per week (various hours and shifts available to suit your lifestyle) 20 days holiday + bank holidays Flexible Additional Holiday Purchase Scheme DBS check paid by CareTech prior to starting with us. Full induction programme to Care Certific...

Who would have guessed that the untapped talent of the unemployed Brit workforce would prove, ahem, workshy?

Working in fields wasn't what they voted for..the idea was that Govt sent the Polish plumbers and nurses packing and they then moved into the vacated flats, like in Schindlers' List.

people won't do manual labour until the wages reward the workload   ...esp with people seeing others getting 40k a year plus to do a load of non jobs

maybe the govt should have made it a condition of furlowing that they should be eligible to do a total of 5 days fruit picking

I`ve seen Polish doctors and school teachers working in the fields when they first came over.

yes mac ...it's in their interests  esp after the crash   ...  trouble is here that those who can , won't give up their benefits  ,housing and taxes paid for  and not to mention interrupting their normal  'activities'

True coach. System is wrong when they get more for not working.

openly encouraged mac as long as  some jobs are forever looked down on and paid so poorly  ...it's a horrible system in that respect

like the honest tory income streams

there are few unemployed that would give up £265 in weekly benefits that my near neighbour receives, and i do not blame him at all. his rent is paid by the state, and round here, that is everything. he is on ebay a lot, dunno what for but his disposable income seems plentiful. ie he drinks a lot

nobody will convince me that paying people to do nothing is a good idea, but any mp who even questions welfare is toast. nobody has the cobblers to say it. frank field was given a remit to 'say the unsayable' when minister for social security, and when he did... they sacked him.

trouble is those jobs that people  did years ago do not exist anymore ,they're now in China and India   .... govt make a killing on import taxes and VAT so   slinging a few quid to some bloke on the dole is an easy option

maybe we need a 30 hour week and cheaper housing   ...get back to basics  ,ramp things up a bit ,some blue sky thinking and all that

imagine that

its not an easy option. compared to benefits paid out and loss of taxes its a disaster for govt. never mind the social consequences.

i will never knowingly buy anything from china or india, and a few other places. workers are expendable, and employee rights are non-existent. and environmental destruction is not a consideration. china is an ecological catastrophe, and any who complain are visited by the secret police.

a big downside of globalisation is the ability to of corporations to outsource operations to wherever is cheapest, which in reality means who is desperate and doesnt give a sh1t about their own people. you cant blame the companies, theyd go bust otherwise and because of the fear of reputational damage these corporations pay better and supply workers rights that are unconsidered in the countries they move to. hence, every job is massively over-subscribed, no matter how menial. any job for a western firm is better than working for a local one that doesnt care if you live or die. witness the appalling factory fires in bangladesh; truly horrible.

as ive been boring about for years, countries that have a shocking human rights record, like china, which uses slave labour shouldnt be allowed to trade, and the wto should be restricted to civilised nations. a ridiculous and improbable idea, but this virus wouldnt be here if china hadnt been admitted only 19 years ago. dont forget, it scorned trade for 50 years until it became scared about the way things were going, and didnt want to go the same way as the ussr

There are plenty of workshy lefties on here.
You can tell by the volume of posts that they are unemployed or more than likely unemployable

Is it easy to go on and off the dole for seasonal work?

No the benefits system is designed to be as humiliating and awkward as possible it does not help the claimant or the taxpayer and for seasonal work like this has no appeal for this very reason

Of course some people on here that claim to be socialists know this to be the case yet they still smear the unemployed in order to score points over Brexit even though the battle was long since lost. Bitter and twisted

youisavinalff. you might think the benefits system was designed to keep people from working. explain how paying an able-bodied male 265 a week is going to make him get a job

i will never knowingly buy anything from china or india
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i think for a lot of folk there seems to be no other option ...find anything made in Europe these days and it comes with a hefty price tag ...add to the fact that you can't repair  much  these days so it's a ready ongoing market for cheap made crap   ...

  it's easy to mislead as well by  labelling items displaying a UK flag with a  ...  Packaged  in UK etc label  ....or made in PRC

PRC could be anyway in most peoples books

even bought some Garlic one time and looked at the label ...produce of China ffs 

serves you right for buying garlic.

nobody will convince me that paying people to do nothing is a good idea,

I think it is a fceking great idea! Am seriously loving it.

Would like a leather sofa, flat screen tv and foreign holidays thrown in as part of the Furlough deal!

Pick fruit? Nah!

well he,s a thought if it alright for furloughed workers getting taxpayers money ie benefits and apply/go for fruitpicking jobs,why don't the government say its ok for those on benefit,s /job seeker sto go fruiot picking and keep their benefits
if the brexiteer government want uk workers to do these jobs ,their going to have to impose them on the employers, we all no, including government that the employers want to employ eastern Europeans and will make it as hard as possible for uk workers to get the jobs so obviously the government will have to make it as easy as possible for people to do them, ie keep your benefits

^ Sensible post of the month.

Absolutely. We need the fruit and veg, that seems a very sensible suggestion. What options do we have?

PS
i,m still a no, ,

Still an illiterate idiot

How many of the 112 will survive a week of rain, they will be off to benidorm

You do keep some benefits when you work

youisavinalff. you might think the benefits system was designed to keep people from working. explain how paying an able-bodied male 265 a week is going to make him get a job

Does that include housing benefit and council tax?

Fruit picking isn't rocket science, so why bother with any form of interview. Just feck turn up and pick and get paid in cash. Did that in my younger days before all this equality nonsense and minimum wage nonsense.

wetherspoons open in june may halt the brave and noble 112

I'm all for working in fields but the weather is all against it.

BBC News just reported on this c 18:20 - "Land Army" of ski-instructors taking readily to cutting asparagus.

As a piece of Orwellian propaganda, well worth watching on iplayer.

BBC clearly on a "war footing." Ie whatever Govt want them to say.