Quote Originally Posted by poop
I'll bet people will be coming in droves from their urban high paying jobs in HK to look for jobs picking fruit here yes.

haha you should go back and watch the links you post. They're not all high performers, some of them are artists. I reckon an artist escaping Chinese oppression would be delighted to pick fruit in a stable democracy while painting in their spare time.

All indications are the jobs lost due to lockdown will come back once lockdown ends.
Some will, some won't. Over time the economy will recover, mostly, but lots of pubs are finished, with no guarantee new pubs emerge to replace them.

You should worry about the huge drop in exports and how many jobs that will cost.
If you believe this, then you should also be thinking it's a really good thing that people are leaving the UK, since that frees up work for natives. I mean, on the one hand you're saying it's bad these people are leaving, and on the other you're predicting terrible job losses.

And yet at the height of the pandemic when people here were unemployed en masse they still had problems finding fruit pickers from the UK
I didn't notice any shortages of British strawberries.