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Thanks for nothing Brown, Blair and co
On reading the article of allocating £854000 to cope with our already overstretched services for migrant workers, where was all this help and money yesteryear?
When our own men and women toiled long hours for a few pounds, when a raincoat was a hessian sack draped across their shoulders.
Their canteen was sat on the ground behind bags of potatoes in the field, and drink their bottle of cold tea, and the portaloo was the nearest dyke.
My grandmother was killed in an open back lorry in 1933, with not even a tarpaulin sheet to shelter them from the weather, never mind about seat belts.
And as for the seating arrangements, it was just a plank stretched across two boxes.
I bet these individuals who make these decisions have never had long days and short lunch breaks, had 18 and 20 stone sacks of corn & peas on their shoulders, carrying them up to the granary for 12 hours.
I have seen labourers pour cobblers wax in the cracks of their hands, caused by the harsh March winds, because they have never even had gloves.
So thank you Blair, Brown and co for absolutely nothing.
T. Coope
Wyberton West Road
Boston
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