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Prince Charles calls for British workers to come forward and save the harvest, because our Brexit-fuelled Little Englander xenophobia (coupled with the pandemic) has chased away the foreign pickers who've done the job superbly for decades.

Crops rotting in 3... 2... 1...
Cue Brexit types going "nobody told us that Brexit would mean nobody to pick the crops"...

Actually EVERYONE told you. It was one of the many "known knowns" of Brexit.

Just because you were too neutronium-dense to take an interest doesn't change the fact that you were warned!
About 70,000-90,000 pickers will be needed for the season.

I wonder how many people were crammed into Parliament Square and surrounding streets at 11pm on 31 January, listening to the pre-recorded bongs of Big Ben as we obliterated our EU membership?

Maybe they would be enough?
Yep, looks like a sea of fruit pickers to me...
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