The £7-per-hour jobs locals don't want
High wages have drawn scores of Eastern Europeans to at least one corner of England. But not everyone welcomes this new workforce even if unemployed locals themselves refuse to do the same jobs.
Half a dozen workers trudge behind a tractor bending down to pick and load the Giant squash. And the only person in the field who's British is the bloke driving the tractor. The rest are all from Eastern Europe.
The crew of Latvians, Lithuanians and a Pole includes a former nurse who's earning four times what she was making in the hospital back home. It's monotonous, physical work with 60-hour weeks, but no-one's complaining - or taking a tea break.
And the local unemployed signing on?
When questioned said;
"No mate I'd prefer to sign-on than do that."
"I don't want to work in like no cornfield."
"I don't want to work with a load of foreigners."
Another lad is picking up his last benefits cheque. He's just got a job after 12 months of searching. "I think because of all the foreigners" he says. "I know people don't like it, but I've never had trouble getting a job before. I've been going for jobs and they've got over 200 people applying for them."
i saw this on a program. The youth of Peterborough. Totally unimpressive