with regard to the seasonal "foreign workers" they are and have been a fact of life for farmers, flower and fruit growers for at least a hundred years and gang masters/workers were/are subject to various Regulations as to how many from where etc. I would think the sudden availability of cheap labour from the EU in recent years had a effect on what growers would grow or expanded the acreage in. Certainly since the end of WW2 there have been seasonal workers, students, school leavers and all sorts treated it as a "different" experience. Its not new and the work shy wont do it for the reasons that have been given. My father went apple picking for his summer holidays for many years- just because it was not his day job. Chris S.
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