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This should cause inflation of prices as the price of food increase. This is due to it being more expensive to produce food in the UK versus importing it from f
by acd 10y ago
This should cause inflation of prices as the price of food increase. This is due to it being more expensive to produce food in the UK versus importing it from for example Spain and the Netherlands. Thus the average UK consumer will be poorer.
Not limited only products such as vegetables.
- alecco 10y agoWhat are you talking aobut? EU protectionism raises food prices.
- pjc50 10y agohttp://www.fwi.co.uk/news/nfu-issues-warning-potential-labour-shortage.htm http://www.fwi.co.uk/news/nfu-issues-warning-potential-labou... http://www.producebusinessuk.com/insight/insight-stories/2017/01/12/post-brexit-scheme-for-seasonal-agricultural-workers-could-be-on-the-cards http://www.producebusinessuk.com/insight/insight-stories/201... “UK citizens do not like to come and pick our crops and so we have to bring in workers from the EU; from Poland, Czech Republic and Bulgaria etc. They represent 95 percent of our workforce and without them we are absolutely sunk,” he said.
- oblio 10y agoNo, man, I'm sure the lower class British workers will be glad to work for crap pay and be treated as sh*t just so the rest of the Britons get cheap produce :)
- pessimizer 10y agoIt also creates more jobs, less of that money leaving the UK as remittances, and pressure on businesses with workers paid so low that consumption of basic products eats up a large part of their wages to raise those wages. So who knows how it will shake out. It's certainly not an unambiguous moral good to have a class of people in the country who can unofficially be treated worse than the native-born because they're expected to live in squalor to support their families back home.