Gove won't be a caretaker, too many enemies in the party & way too many who want the job themselves like Hunt, Javid, Clown and Williamson. As for Ruth Davidson she has to beat Sturgeon (unlikely) and win over the party (improbable) after getting elected as an MP.
No sir, you fooled me once with that bosey talk. I needed penicillin, so I did. Ya twisted little wee man.
There's nothing new about that. The UK agricultural industry has used seasonal migrant workers for generations. Many other countries far beyond Europe do as well and always have. The logic is perfectly simple. Any nation needs to be as self-sufficient as possible in staple foodstuffs. Prices need to be competitive for the consumer to prevent the country becoming dangerously reliant on imports. Harvesting particularly is time sensitive, labour intensive and cannot always be automated so the industry needs a reliable supply of cheap and temporary labour. It always has. So you bring in temporary migrant workers from poorer countries. They are paid relatively low wages by UK standards but their board and accommodation is often provided by their employer and they pay little or no tax so they need spend relatively little of the earnings. They work hard for long hours but for a finite period after which they will have special dispensation to take the money they have earned back home where it is worth many times more than it would be in the UK to a British worker. Result: The producer gets a reliable source of temporary labour, British consumers get British produce to buy at internationally competitive rates and no one is exploited or short changed because the migrant labourers when they get home with their heard-earned cash find themselves very well rewarded for their efforts. And so the process repeats next year. This is a common arrangement the world over. You don't need to surrender your sovereignty and enter political union with other countries to do it and you don't need to throw open your entire country and labour market to half a billion surplus people or accept the jurisdiction of artificial foreign courts and rules and regulation set by foreign quangos either, just because a handful of unelected ideologues want to pursue a mad superstate vanity project. You make special temporary visa arrangements for the people in sectors where they are needed, they go home at the end of it amply rewarded and everyone's happy. You don't need to be subsumed within a corrupt and anti-democratic quasi superstate to achieve such an arrangement. No one else does. We didn't before we were taken into the European Project and we'll manage perfectly well after we've left. And if the EU won't allow citizens of member states to work on UK farms unless the UK agrees to remain an EU colonial possession because it is frightened that other states will see the Project for what it is and want out as well, I'm sure there are plenty of other countries who will. Its a non-story.
