The Polish pay an agency in Poland £500 for a placement picking apples, air fares and board and lodging. A work trip. Except it isn’t.
The arrive at a farm with no apples, expected to live in a caravan full of shit, literally, and with open air cooking facilities. The accomodation is SHITE. They are then told they will pick the last crop of the strawberries - the crop no one else will pick because it is back breaking and yields little fruit and, in return, little cash.
When the Polish complain they are kicked off the farms and left to fend for themselves in the middle or rural Kent and with no cash.
That is how a group of five men found their way to a friend’s dad’s B&B. They had walked miles into Canterbury and saw his B&B sign. They offered to do menial jobs for a night’s stay so they could sort themselves out. My friend’s dad - an Irish migrant - was so enraged he has let them stay until their return ticket is due and helped them find work.
These people are not scum spongers. They are carpenters, mechanics and nurses and over here on what seemed legitimate work with a determined time period. Except they are victims of the EU widening, just as the right wing feel they are.
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