Tommy Tainant
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Romanian fruit pickers flown to UK amid crisis in farming sector
Charter flights organised after appeal fails to recruit enough British workers
Romanian workers are being flown in to help feed Britain amid a continuing recruitment crisis in the agriculture sector.
Special charter flights have started flying into the UK from Bucharest with desperately needed workers for British farms that risk losing their crop of early summer fruit and vegetables because of the coronavirus lockdown.
One plane was due to land in Stansted airport on Wednesday afternoon, with another landing on Thursday with 150 people onboard.
Matthew Purton, the head of commercial aviation at Air Charter Services, said the company had tendered for six more flights “for a mixture of farms” in the coming weeks, which could see 450 workers flown to help avert food shortages.
Well the stupid shit kicking farmers were all for brexit and now they can see how stupid they were. Cant cure stupid.