Send our young offenders out to Kent to pick the lettuces

From: JOAN YOUELLSturdee Close, Eastbourne
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Last month, we heard of British farmers hiring three private planes to go to Romania for young people to come to England, to pick lettuces and vegetables in our fields.

They are quite prepared to risk catching COVID-19. Why? Because they are desperate. Romania has no work and they are starving.

“Good on them,” I say. What brave youngsters.

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Things will have to change after this pandemic, and the government will have to get tougher. Instead of young people spitting at the police, rather than have them lazing in prison for a couple of months, send them out to Kent to pick the lettuces.

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