Thread by @DMDent

Course it is. What is more, people don't realise to take these jobs means moving away from home, for CASUAL labour, to areas expensive to take accommodation or if provided very Spartan. It's always been a job for students & migrant youngsters, Roma community etc traditionally &

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there used to be other perks on offer eg Irish kids could ride work for racehorse trainers, Roma had family selling goods & services, horses etc; students had shared accom or immigrants partners engaged in permanent jobs in rural communities. These things don't gel any more as

industrial monocrop farms are not as engaged in traditional rural communities as such. So Helga isn't the barmaid with shared flat with her ag labourer bf, Nobody wants the Roma saddle repairer or weather vane maker, and the student buses aren't laid on from the colleges. So

these jobs were rarely done because they are seasonal, by British workers as such ever since the break up of rural communities and the influx of middle class in during the 80s/90s & after foot & mouth especially. They can't afford to live there on ag labourer wages & rural young

have gone into other fields of work in towns. Roma have been ostracized and made to live in permanent communities rather than travel for seasonal work, etc.