What's Going on in the UK?

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Many of the migrants who have come to pick fruit on british farms have been from ukraine and russia. This year, most of them won't be coming back because there is martial law currently in ukraine. The fact that these workers aren't coming back means that there's a gaping hole for farmers,. And so a g recruitmen told me that they've been going back and trying to recruit from bulgarians and romanians.

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