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tv   Inside Out  BBC News  January 19, 2019 1:30pm-2:00pm GMT

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m; flit including campaigning for a public vote. that was our commitment. doctors‘ leaders say the variation in the availability of gps in different parts of england is "shocking". president trump is to make what he calls a ‘major announcement‘ about the partial government shutdown, which has been caused by a row over his proposed wall along the mexican border. and the actor windsor davies, best known for his role as the sergeant major in the bbc comedy "it ain‘t half hot mum", has died at the age of 88. now on bbc news, inside out is back with more untold stories from all across england. this week the focus is on brexit as businesses and consumers prepare for an uncertain future. here‘s natalie graham. as the brexit debate continues, eastern european poultry workers are leaving norfolk. since brexit, we‘ve never been fully staffed. we cannot fill every position in this business. a deeply personal brexit dilemma.
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should a jewish man with a holocaust family history apply for a german passport? i want to go to germany. i want to go to poland. find out more about these places, and just weigh up what would be best for me, not only in practical terms, but emotionally. and kent prepares for no deal. how concerned are you about a no—deal brexit? for me it is a fearful situation. we are stepping into the unknown. hello, this is an inside out brexit special, in which we look at how leaving the eu will affect our lives, and our work. thetford in norfolk was transformed 15 years ago by the arrival of thousands of europeans. many of them came to work in the poultry industry.
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since the referendum, the industry and the town have suffered uncertainty and upheaval. so, what lies ahead for them, and what does it mean it‘s early morning, and gregory is getting ready for the day. he lives in thetford. at a free range poultry farm. i would earn something for one month then nothing for the next couple. it wasn‘t easy. he has worked hard, and life is good, but the upheaval around brexit has had a big impact
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on his hometown, with a number of polish people leaving. just in the last couple of months, the man who runs the supermarket, mainly selling eastern european food, says he has had a number of families coming in to see him, just to say goodbye. they are going back? yes, they feel that they are not welcome anymore. last month, around 30 or a0 families going back. bye—bye, thank you! the numbers leaving have been constant since the referendum. the year after the vote, almost a third of non—british people living here left. where gregory works, that have been hit. 75% of their workforce are eu migrants. i‘m really concerned. at the same time upset.
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not enough workers can help us out. not enough manual labour coming in. in the agricultural sector, very important. especially in the iiveseder—itieusd’yt you need manual labour. the company relies on labour from eastern europe, the work is'hard', and'the majority marc has suffered from since brexit we have never been fully staffed. we cannot fill every position in this business. th; asailabilitig uf flicfiurhmi l7", i?iaffff . f; 71; :,',, es do you look further afield
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for your workforce? absolutely. just to find them. we're just notrgetting people?! coming looking for work. the chance to come here and go up the pay grade. we are not just looking for basic minimum wage people. supervisors, line leaders, team leaders, managers, people can have a career here. which has benefited people like gregory. but that could all change. under the latest government proposal, if someone now comes into a low skilled job, they may struggle to move into management as he did. madeline from the migration observatory at oxford university has
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been helping inside out make sense of these plans here in the east. the government‘s proposals make a strict distinction between high skilled work and low skilled work. and someone who comes in initially into a low skilled job would not be able to switch into a high skilled route under the proposals. they would need to go home for a year and then come back on another kind of visa. so it would be much harder in the future for people to have that upward mobility from low skilled into higher skilled work. gregory is shocked. he had no idea this was on the cards. it will affect anyone trying to move upwards. !t meet-tam how can we get someone and make them get enough skills if he cannot work from the bottom? if he cannot get enough skills working with a shovel up to the desk with a computer? for many, the uncertainty is too much. there is many shops shutdown now.
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and you see them, imagine how sad it is going to be. really quiet. like, nothing going on. do you think the town will die? if it is not die, then it will be almost. it will be really down. it is sad. you look at my face, you think i'm not worried? i can't even sleep. you don't know what's going to happen. people feel sad.
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