but farmer tim chambers is something of a stick-in-the-mud.s, for 12 euros an hour. now, if you want that person to be highly paid, then please pay me more money in the supermarkets, and i will put a 100 -thousand-pound picker in the field. impossible. we've tried for many years - for the last ten years to encourage english people back onto farms to work. farmer tim's problem is that he can't find enough laborers from abroad. the british government would rather let fewer migrants in, not more. not nearly as many work permits are being approved as are needed, which would be about another 10 -thousand. they were not issuing work permits until the season had already started, which is too late. so, we need the flexibility to bring people in earlier. they weren't allowing that to happen. they weren't telling us as an industry even if there would be the availability of any laborer, at all. it's like he's saying: 'let them find out the hard way. the home secretary responsible, suella braverman, is an aggressive brexit ideologue, seen here at a rally