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and as industry carries on, those ancient trades, their retiring. and as industry carries on, those ancient trades, they're retiring. so the only real fast flow of new resource is migrant workers. we are doing things with apprenticeships and bringing people from school but those things take time. in kent, the raspberries are ripe and ready. pickers here come on seasonal workers visas. they're not included in today's migration figures. but farmers say the visas are too restrictive. we need people who are going to come who understand the languages that we speak, who settle in quickly to the work they need to do. the time that they're given to work here is only six months. it really needs to be extended. by the time we've gone through the training, the health and safety, they've settled in and started working efficiently as we need them to work, their time is up. the shortage of lorry drivers became a post—brexit political football