Andrea Leadsom, Idiot-in-Chief

[the_gardener]

A local Conservative Party member of my acquaintance is fairly contemptuous of Andrea Leadsom -- in his words, "she isn't Cabinet-quality". As would appear to be demonstrated by her suggestion at this week's Conservative Party conference that, post-Brexit, British yoof be tasked to harvest English fruit and vegetables in place of the seasonal

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[hnpcc]

They'll either make the dole dependent on picking (because what you want are unwilling workers) or open it to backpackers I suspect.

[the_gardener]

It might be possible to dragoon the unemployed into harvesting of fruit and vegetables. But not backpackers, because (a) we don't have that many of them, and (b) those few we do have would fall foul of the "naming and shaming" intended for firms which employ furriners instead of UK citizens.