Rotten fruit and the Jacob Rees-Mogg ambush | Anywhere but Westminster 

I wish people would be as angry at the extreme wealthy who are siphoning the money to themselves, as they are as angry at the immigrants. While there may be an immigration issue it pales into insignificance to the issue of wealth inequality.

You know the farm owners charge those workers to live in those caravans? So in the end theyre really paying less than min wage.

So Mogg's idea for post-Brexit labour shortages is to replace one set of immigrant workers with another? That won't play well in Leave households.

In the 50's and 60's, the rich farm owners were laying off British farmworkers for profit and treating them like dirt, why would British want to work for them again

I wonder who picked the fruit before free movement of people?

I think even John Harris is surprised at life outside Londonland.

Here's what I saw. The interviewer cannot hide his bias, JRM makes time for an unscheduled interview, answers the question perfectly reasonably and logically then the interviewer spends his time in the background pulling faces like a child. It's a typical reaction when you know you are wrong, but you don't want to admit it. Also, when he says "I bet this woman voted remain" gleefully, it's because she looks middle class. This is left wing snobbery at it's best - all the working class people (who don't matter) voted leave and here's a middle class person who voted remain, and how wonderful he thinks she is. You see, the left now just dismiss the working classes, when the whole point of the left as a cause is to empower them.

British people definitely know how to pick fruit. I have done it and I am sure others can too. The fact is that Eastern Europeans are willing work for much less money.

All that nonsense and worry promulgated. Then JRM just states plainly that we can have a seasonal workers policy. Just like we had before in 2004 before eastern Europe joined the EU with free movement

The locals were kicked off the fields so the land owners, could use cheap labour.Why cheap, because they are tied to the super markets that govern what price they are prepared to pay and their inspectors tell farmers when to spray.

The iranian man complaining in bad english about foreigners. That was interesting. The other thing I didn't understand: seasonal workers program from outside the EU? Why?

Wot happened before 2007 who picked the fruit?

the solution to getting British picking the fields is to get the Job center to ship the unemployed out to the fields to pick. (paid work of course, as if there not paid it's slave labor) If they refuse to do it 3 times there benefits are cut. if they pick they never leave the benefit system. so that way it's extremely beneficial for everyone.

8:00 - Jacob Rees-Mogg is saying, in response to information about raspberries rotting in the fields cause of labor shortage, that the solution is to bring seasonal workers from OUTSIDE EU... Pure insanity.

I’m an advocate of fair trade... fair price for consumers, fair wages for workers and fair income for innovation.. the market dictates... it’s true, hardworking decent British people don’t want to bust there backs in a field for minimum wage... the cost of fruit has to go up and wages need to go up... minimum wage is not a livible income for British people.. so corporations and government hide the fact by manipulating foreign workers who can live on it and hide the data figures on employment and wage limits.. foreign workers go home with cash in there pockets... it’s sad...corporate business and government is dictating to the markets abusing cheep labour and the common man pays the price.. price of fruit goes up temporarily to stable the market... short term bad, yes... Long term= no economic effect other than people get fair wages.. immigrants aswell. Awesome!!!

Good to see the real face of English ppl. This country will go down the drain even more.

The reporter says good luck at the bookys 🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂the man said ur welcome 😂🤣😂🤣😂

But who picked the fruit in the 70's and 80s? Those fruit farms were there then. It was local people who did it and they got paid a reasonable hourly rate. I bet those Romanians, Poles etc. are living in Portakabins on the farm. Because that is EXACTLY what happens here in Rothwell. And the farmer gets a chunk of his wages back in rent. So nobody living locally would get employed by the farmer, even if they were begging for the job!

They don't address the question of WHY local people aren't willing to pick the fruit. The answer is complex, and involves the price paid for food, the availability of work, and the benefits system. Another point that is always overlooked in this discussion is that leaving the EU doesn't mean that all seasonal workers will be prevented from coming to UK to pick fruit, which I think is the point Lord Rees-Mogg was making. He's also right that a proper debate is needed, rather than just shouting abuse at people.

Controlled immigration. Not none.

Why the music when the Romanian woman starts talking ?

The last 43 seconds of this video destroys all the arguments laid down in the first 8 minutes.

Aren't these Eastern European workers seasonal workers already? How does JRM's answer address the concerns immigration based Leavers have? How is replacing one kind of immigrant on minimum wage with another going the change anything?

The reason most Brits wont do these jobs,is because the low wage that is offered and therefore cannot afford to live on it,where as a lot of these Eastern Europeans live ten to a room ,so pay isn't the issue for them .Also it is seasonal work,how can you bring a family up on part time employment? Pay Peanuts get Monky's

"business people will lose money not poor people like me" ahhah ye right it will be the big business men like Rees mogg who will profit from this as they won't be forced to pay tax on their off shore acounts by the EU

Love it. Keep up with the good work

There is no argument for increased unskilled migration to the UK when we currently have 1.5 million unemployed people. The argument that unemployed British people won’t do the work needs to be challenged with the question: ‘how do those unemployed people provide for themselves?’ If they are in receipt of state welfare - which most of them are - the state should have some say over the work they do. If a long term recipient of state welfare refuses to work, then remove their benefits.

Labour's policy regarding the minimum wage would wipe this industry out over night.

1:04 A picture of the 'Iron Lady' on his table ? ! LOL ! (does he pray to it for guidance)

Iranıan man was hilarious

All that interviewer was worried about was fruit not getting picked, his view on the UK being in the EU is so limited it`s beyond parody

When I was just out of school we used to go potato picking £1.50 a box that 2 of us could turn up and sit to shelter if it rained .56p a pint then . We loved it .

Brexit is the endeavour of the aging. Think they're also largely the demographic of the right nowadays. Interesting years ahead, I hope the young continue to make their voices heard and drive this back.

If the farmer can't find people to pick his fruit then he must pay higher wages and the price in the shop will be higher and that's fine, perhaps we all have to buy fewer punnets of fruit. But somehow the Guardian won't make that point. The answer MUST be low paid wage slaves from other countries.

Can't clog the Mogg

Its not a matter of getting back control of anything political, its a matter of getting back control of the politicians themselves. The bad policies forced on us now cannot be corrected by the electorate, back under our accountability we take control of them and force them to change policy for our benefit instead of for the eu`s benefit.

Tears of brexiteers on this comment section is a gold.

Purple shirt at 4.40 turned out to be massively wrong, didn't he.

We don't blame these foreign people,we blame the people who allowed mass immigration which, in turn, lowered wages.

This reporter is very condescending. Rees-Mogg comes off as the better man in the video, which was clearly not the reporter's intention!

No one denies we need migrants to do this work. We simply want to be able to select who comes into our country. At the moment we cannot.

"Nice to of meet you" 😂

if there is a job for temporary worker then the door will be open for them, i do feel tho that these unskilled jobs can be done by using the local unemployed first then if there are vacancies bring in migrates, if the bone idle refuse then cut their benefits..

Wow this guy got completely wrecked my the Mogg on his question about Seasonal Agricultural workers in like 5 seconds haha. And why is that Romanian fruit picker so worried? Our Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS) which gives out seasonal work visas to Eastern European people outside the EU predates 2014 when Romania joined the EU properly. Post-Brexit things will just go back to SAWS which will mean she won't lose her job at all. It might mean more paperwork for her but it will at least ensure she's working legally in a safe job.

The guy from Iran couldn't be more honest than that: businesses going to be screwed and immigrants coming in from all countries EXCEPT the EU.

Firstly, start by saying, we're leaving. There's no question on that. For the thick amongst you listen at 3:28 to what the man says. The simple economics of this is that the man may well go out of business (so won't be contributing the same level of taxes to the Treasury) and neither will his staff (who are not sending all their wages home and will have to get tax deducted at source once they earn enough which will also go straight to the Treasury). So, he will find some other way to make money, his foreign staff will not pay taxes because there will be no job. There will be no fruit picking job for Brit students (as someone in these comments mentioned would be the alternative to foreign pickers) and our supermarkets, whose main goal must be profit, will source the fruit from another country (Spain for talking's sake - where the Romanian pickers can go and pick as part of the EU). We, the British consumer, may or may not pay more for the fruit in the shops. None of us know...yet. The tax contribution to UK Govt. however, from just that one business is going to be wiped out however, if the above scenario unfolds.

I love these clips - the Guardian is so out of touch and the longer they keep bashing on the more doomed the Labour Party is

I have to commend this video. I don't agree with the host's opinions, but it is very fair in it's portrayal of Jacob Rees-Mogg and local people.

If there is people that don't want to work, look at restricting benefits more, make people have respect for themselfs with a work ethic, many can't even comprehend a days work,

The average age of that fringe meeting's audience was at least 70.

i have seen a few of these, they normally say there's no work

Videos like these are proof-positive that Leave voters never deserved a vote in the first place. You don't give people more than they can handle. Notice how all the Leave voters sounded borderline illiterate...? xD

At least the Tories won. The analogy doesn't work.

Excellent.

So please explain who picked fruit before 2004?

What do you expect from the Guardian a few interviews about picking fruit stopped buying it years ago.

Our Pound? What about your Euro! xD

Love the Iranian guy.

Pay a decent wage and pay decent price for the fruit

This woman voted to remain..... picks on very middle class former librarian with a pushbike covered in flowers.

Sorry, but you've just demonstrated why "Leave" is, at least, a reasonable argument and also, why Jacob Rees-Mogg is so popular with ordinary people. That wasn't your intention, was it?

I'll pick the fruit!

aha, I love peoples responses to something that slightly unearths issues, or when facts go against someone's personal feelings

To many foreigners like you?

So the Mogg destroyed his argument and the whole point of this video in 8 seconds and he was reduced to pulling faces in the background? The left, ladies and gentlemen.

Excellent

The fruit pickers and others can come back on work permits. If we want to employ British workers, then we should refuse them benefits if they refuse to work. Simple. No work - No money. My sister in Kent used to pick apples and plums during the harvest time when we had orchards. Now they are gone due to imports. Every country should be able to feed itself.

Why doesn't the over paid Guardian journalists leave their work to work for minimum wage? The workers from overseas are a great cost to the NHS, housing, etc.

Bang on mate, keep doing your thing

No more British fruit. Tragic irony.

So you cut back on the amount of food you produce.

"who would pick the fruit?"

After next March 2019, The government need to gracefully change its leadership, I hope this gentleman stands up and does what the people would dearly like him to do, run as leader After which they call a general election so they can endorse him as PM.

This Rees-Mogg guy seems like the most arrogant person I've ever seen

Only series of the guardian I like

Is this meant to be journalism?

Would this Guardian opinion piece be shown if the category of people who are dismissed as inarticulate idiots were black or female? No. But their being Leave voters somehow makes it legitimate. The basis of the argument is, once again, that raspberries will not be picked by British workers for the wages on offer. The response that the wages will have to increase is waved aside as absurd, because prices would have to rise. Because of course it is unthinkable to the raspberry-buying Guardian classes that they should indeed pay more to the people who pick their fruit, and that their refusal to might be a part of the grudge against them held by the yobs and yokels whose labour is worth as little as their opinions and experience.

Welcome to Gillingham! (It's not that bad)

That bloke in the purple polo shirt was Paul Whitehouse.

plus where are those wages going??? Romania!!!

Brexit is not about Britain. It's about whats best for Mogg and Boris.

Literally everyone at that meet was over 60!

I love how this interview says he's "just asking questions", like he doesn't have an obvious bias. Tbh it doesn't look like he's convinced by his own ideas. Come over to the dark side mate, you know it makes sense (literally, it makes more sense)

Your a remainder aren't ya poor John didn't know what to say there because that fella well had him

Mogg : the most putrid of rotten berries.

Sneering Guardian journalist takes his 'I know better than you' attitude to Gillingham in Kent and yet complains "In some cases, to find oneself at the receiving end of derision and hostility"

Isn't this supposed to be a news source. That means being unbiased.

Lol, he was not expecting that from the Iranian

Let the Labour Party pick the fruit. They have got the brains to do much else 🤪

We can all put a slant on whatever view we have, the Guardian knows that only too well. Mr Junker for our next President, sorry I meant King

1980 - Ronnie Reagan: America’s answer to Maggie Thatcher. 2020 - Jacob Rees-Mogg: Britain’s answer to Donald Trump.

Leavers are so polite and reasonable. So glad we're putting our faith them.

The lady with the bike was really nice. There is hope left for our sorry country if the sane voice of reason can return to these shores.

ask enough people and you will hear the answer your looking for sooner or later

Fruit picking sounds like a great first job for the youth of our country! What do you mean nobody will do It for us?

Serious question; what kind of education system produces people with these views? U.K. comes across as being about a century behind in attitudes and basic economic and political knowledge. It’s actually disturbing.

You should have spoken them before referendum

The argument seems to be between "My fruit will be more expensive!" and "The representatives elected by the British people shouldn't be ordered around by people the British didn't vote for." This video is a bit of a slanted, trite sort of production piece for the Remain camp, which has some real arguments for their position, but this style of smug, emotional trolling isn't doing Britain any good at all.

This "journalist" is out of his depth. Mogg battered him.

Silly post. When the stuff isn't being picked the Grauniad might have an article. Not waiting.