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Unskilled EU migrants to be replaced with unskilled non-EU migrants

Unskilled EU migrants to be replaced with unskilled non-EU migrants
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Despite campaign messages of "British jobs for British workers" and "British laws for British people", things haven't quite been going to plan for Brexiteers.

Earlier this week, it emerged that the verdict on whether parliament will have a vote on whether or not to trigger Article 50 could eventually end up in the European Court of Justice if the Government keeps appealing.

And in another painfully ironic twist, it has emerged this weekend that many farmers will probably replace unskilled EU fruit pickers with, er, unskilled non-EU fruit pickers.

As this excerpt from a Timesarticle, tweeted by barrister Jo Maugham, explains:

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