Sausage maker Cranswick spent more than £10,000 each to bring 400 skilled butchers to the UK from the Philippines.
CEO Adam Couch paid the £4m bill to keep “food on the plates”
Pre-Brexit, EU workers made up 65% of his staff. Many have now gone home. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-25/uk-pork-producer-pays-4-million-to-hire-filipino-butchers
Inflation isn't all down to Brexit, but ending freedom of movement is a major reason why the cost of your breakfast sausages are going through the roof.
Well done Brexit loonies.
@ImIncorrigible anyone know how much it would cost to
A) train a Brit to become a butcher (assuming you could find phone wanting the training)
B) bring butchers in from the EU, under the new rules (assuming you could find any willing to come)?
Sheer curiosity on my part.
I Am Incorrigible FCA
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