[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Hugh

My son spent 2 years in Oz on a working tourist visa - what attracted him (and a lot of the people he "travelled" with) was the opportunity to visit Nepal, India, and Bali on the way to Oz, the consistently good weather, the opportunity to visit the Gold Coast / Barrier Reef with a quick flight, and a huge land to explore where everyone spoke the same (mostly) language as him.

Not sure GB can offer that to seasonal workers...

So we don't attract seasonal workers at the moment?
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She is among 30 workers from non-EU countries who recently started at Cornish farm Riviera Produce as part of a Home Office trial.
In total, 2,500 people from Ukraine, Moldova and Russia have been recruited for seasonal work on farms from the South of England to Scotland.

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"People in the Ukraine are hoping they'll have the opportunity to come and earn money and get somewhere in life, because the situation in Ukraine as regards work is quite hard."

He used to rely on migrant workers from EU countries such as Poland and Lithuania to pick his cauliflowers, courgettes and brassicas, then more recently Romania and Bulgaria.
But in the past two years, their home economies picked up and the exchange rate became less favourable. Fewer have wanted to come.

In other words, even if we remained in the EU there would be problems.