Except it’s not the people they were expecting. It’s largely students and fruit pickers. The former because the UK needs the money (and the US has become incre

Except it’s not the people they were expecting. It’s largely students and fruit pickers. The former because the UK needs the money (and the US has become increasingly hostile) and the latter because they need the labour. So yeah, it worked for some definition of worked where the thing happened, but not at all in the way or with the outcome they wanted it to happen.