Or you could try to stop the race to the bottom and pay the working class more so they can afford strawberries that aren't picked by wage slaves.

There's a difference between a complaint and a reality. British working class citizens likely wouldn't wish to pick fruits, at the wages that British farmers wish to pay them.

Actually, that's sort of the point. British working class labour being undercut by foreign labour.

> Actually, that's sort of the point. British working class labour being undercut by foreign labour.

Sure, that may work in a purely hypothetical construct with rational economic agents, no second-order effects, farmers that are OK with going out of business, no political pandering, a the Conservative government that cares about labor (the class) and spherical cows.

Why are the anti-immigration politicians, now that they have "taken back control" - still keeping the immigration pipeline running? Just with fewer EU immigrants.

Blaming foreign laborers for systemic problems is a lazy cop-out: that is the bloc with the least say.

"Undercut"? You're getting there.

I'm not sure how to respond without being glib, but there's more to life than fruit.

Safe working conditions are worth 5 pound strawberries.

Sure - there's more to life than fruit, massages, receiving trucked goods, and being attended to by health techs - but add it all up and you're missing quite a huge chunk of "life", IMO.

If a system depends on disposable workers to provide those things than it's not a system we should be supporting. We need to figure out how to provide a wage large enough to provide for everyone, not just the lucky few who have an army of slaves to meet their needs. Currently we don't and we are stealing the human capital of the second world to support our failing countries.

The strawman is now a strawarmy!

Why do you assume they're unsafe? That's not in the article. It appears you've created a strawman.