Quote Originally Posted by Witton Park View Post
but most developed economies have so far failed to deal with the issue of the low paid workers in their societies.
Repeating myself here, but this really pisses me off. That is the key reason for many (rightly angry) people voting the way they did. The UK Goverment, is betraying it's own people. They have not solved this issue becasue they don't want to. The abuse of workers due to a combination of zero-hours contracts along side low wages is criminal. The goverment won't fix it becasue it would increase business costs and we the middle classes, are too selfish to pay more for our lettuce, fish etc.

Will a shortage of Polish workers, result in a wage increase/improved working conditions, to make the bottom rung of British workers want to do these type of jobs? With unemployment so low, even with EU migration, I am not convienced it will.

Personally I can see the mumber of Polish workers on UK farms being no different in 10 years time, but just more paper work (and costs) involved in getting them the permissions to take up the jobs.