The pay for vegetable pickers is always minimum wage, the only time this goes up is during peak harvest times of the season, you get an extra £1 hour for being a supervisor.

It is £25 per person a week to rent a static caravan including electricity.
Usually the caravans house between 3 & 5 people.

When these people are not working they're usually getting pissed cooking klobasa on a BBQ, feeding ducks and smoking weed.

every other figure you hear on this thread regarding veg pickers is bollocks.

Source my Slovak gf who picked vegetables for 5 years on a farm in Worcester.

Slovak minimum wage is €2.33 an hour there is no shortage of workers coming from europe.

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Edited by Ouzo Dan (17 Jun 2021 8.08pm)

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What's happened down here is that a lot of the smaller milk producers have started putting dispensing machines in farm shops (and in our village the fruit and veg shop) and selling direct to the customer on a 'fill your own container' basis. It's beautiful, full fat slightly heat treated and tastes like the milk you used to get from the milkman years ago.

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Yeah the farms here and across the EU do take the piss a bit as it is a genuine honest bit of hard work that does deserve more for the graft that is put in however its hard to blame the farmer when supermarkets more or less dictate what they are paying.

Honestly though the 25/30 people I know through my GF (Slovaks,Czechs,Poles,Ukrainians,Hungarians) all speak really positively of working on the farms in England, most will do 2-3 seasons before heading home and finding a decently paid job out this way.

Truth is low income workers are treated appallingly in this part of the world and see the £8.21 an hour they're offered to work in England vs the £2 hour they'll get here & jump at the chance at 4x their wages, obvious you have to be of the right mindset to do it but there is no shortage of people keen to travel, meet people, see new things and earn a fortune vs what they'd get waiting in a hotel.

Edited by Ouzo Dan (17 Jun 2021 8.48pm)

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Would be a great job for all the beggers on the streets of London if the really want to work for money.

Most beggars are not homeless. I have friends who volunteer at homeless charities people who are genuinely on the streets are not the ones you see outside shops with their dog and placard.

Those people tend to be addicts of one sort or another so giving them money is just enabling their addiction.

Give money direct to Shelter or The Passage if you want to help the homeless or the various addiction charities.

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