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Yep it's all relative. Supermarkets set the prices and growers set wages according to that - not the other way around - or else supermarkets do what they always do and source from around the world where possible/feasible. Romanian minimum wage around a quarter of the UK's so many Romanians...

People don't like piecework. Most of the seasonal harvesting work is that. Also comes down to geography in many cases in having to get large groups of people from urban to rural areas on a daily basis.

Germany flying in 80000 Romanians and Poles to pick strawberries and asparagus atm. Austria desperately trying to find East European Labour as well. Spain will continue using illegal immigrant labour. UK been bringing in European labour for over 30 years. Used to be mainly students on short...

would have thought the next election will still be about Brexit. Either the country "survives" it and moves forward then it'll be a Tory win. It's not worked out and Labour will be promising to fix it (and win)

Catching up with care home testing. 36,% jump in care home infections

So much for Saudi billions

taking it down to "simple" numbers to show how small the margins are and the reasoning behind the concepts of isolation/groupings/distancing

Staveley could just be a better-looking version of Joy :)

Think 1 or 2 Geordies are getting carried away. If there is all this money behind the deal why are they paying in instalments?

easing up from Thursday but if you go outside have to wear a mask or scarf across your face. One eye on the May Presidential election

Did the Irish not travel to Cheltenham this year? My experiences of Cheltenham (work and play) were of huge numbers coming over for the Festival.

Poland easing up but if you go out side you have to wear a mask or a scarf across your face

Got a link please. Know eastern European EU states have been getting donations from Germany but nothing much yet from EU. Definite PPE and ventilator shortages here, Romania, Slovakia and others. Our media says EU stuff is at least 2 weeks away from arriving.

Exactly. Mandatory quarantine when 1st report is made. Enforced by the police visiting a couple of times a day. New load of kit from China this morning which is apparently "guaranteed" quality. Implication being 1st lot was duff as continuing shortages of PPE and there wasn't any significant...

Trump confirming he is a complete case. Said it before he got the nomination that there is genuinely some psychological issues there. Update from Hungary. Who knows the real truth? Under new laws media aren't allowed to reveal anything, question govt officials or medical people. Testing still...

Probably a bit high-brow for this thread :)

Another day to dodge this thread. Just brexit, GE threads under a different name now.

People keep comparing German & UK health systems. Funded differently, adminstered differently. People also keep mistaking % of GDP spent on the respective services with Govt spending.

regular brains trust there then :)

Swedish argument is that the input data UK advisers used was flawed when they came up with that number.