Only one part of your piece: but of the 50,000 UK applicants to be fruit pickers, only 112 turned up, citing that it was too far away as they didn't want to commute, they didn't want to work for eight hours a day and that they would only work when the weather was good as reasons for not following through with their applications...
I can understand not wanting to travel long distances when we were told to stay in doors, but I did say "local". I'm pretty sure there must be fruit farms around Northampton still, if so do the have enough LOCAL workforce because I've certainly not seen any requests for labour and I watch/listen to local news and read the local FB pages. If there is enough locals, fair play, but we shouldn't be flying people in from Eastern Europe when we could do it ourselves, what happens next year when we ,probably, cant bring in Romanians ?