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Dear
Editor,
I was
touched by the
concern you
express in
today's
editorial,
"Fruits
of
labour",
for the state
of
professional
gardening in
our green and
pleasant land.
But the
solution you
propose is
depressingly
familiar:
inviting cheap
labour into
the country to
do the jobs
that any
self-respecting
Englishman or
woman must
decline
because of the
insultingly
low salaries
on offer. And
when some of
that cheap
foreign labour
has
familiarised
itself with
conditions
here and decides
to live off
state benefits
instead or to
supplement its
income through
petty crime,
you will be
indignant and
in despair of
what the world
is coming to!
What
the world is
coming to is
where it is
being driven
by market
forces, rooted
in our animal
(rather than
our human)
nature.
We
need to create
a fair-market
and fair-trade
economy,
rooted in
man's more enlightened,
human nature,
in which,
among other
things, income
differentials
are fair and
proportionate
(with the
maximum wage
being, say, no
more then 10
times the
minimum wage).
What
do you say? If
I set out to
establish such
an economy - which,
unlike our present
economy, would
also have to
be sustainable,
of course -
could I count
on the
Telegraph's
support?
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