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So if the Eastern Europeans can (or rather are willing) to do it, why can't the British? £14/hr is above minimum wage and £30 per hour (I guess that this can be earned because of a bonus involved) is a very good wage by any standard.
Is it because the British are shy of doing that hard graft and rather sit at home in front of the telly being funded by the tax payer? Perhaps that needs addressing.
Well if you're a single parent living in Leeds, a couple of months working down in Cornwall isn't much good to you.
This is what made workers from other EU countries such a good match for this. They came in, did the work, were willing to live near to the work, and indeed worked very hard, very long hours, and got the job done.
The work we're talking about here is heavily regionalised, extremely seasonal, and requires the workers to basically live on-site, or pretty close to it. It's not a case of people being 'workshy' so much as for many of them it would be pretty much impossible to do it.