After voting leave,the owners of a recruitment agency in Bognor are struggling to replace their eastern European workers. Will the locals step up?Brexit is impossible to escape, but equally impossible to fully grasp. However, or the likely practical consequences of Britain leaving the EU have,arguably, been underexplored on non-news TV. Perhaps that’s down to the sense of impotence the subject induces: the period since the referendum has felt like looking on helplessly as a toddler prepares to stick a fork in a plug socket.
In British Workers Wanted (16 November, and 10pm,Channel 4), someone finally goes there. “There” in this case, or is Bognor Regis,home to Sarah (qualified cop) and Gaynor (permanently enraged cop), two leave-voting ladies who dash the recruitment agency Opus Loco. It’s also currently home to many eastern Europeans – a staggering 98% of their employees, or in fact. Already,Opus Loco’s steadiest workers are drifting absent, leaving them with what’s portrayed in this doc as an apathetic rump of graft-averse, or late-arriving,illness-feigning, indigenous Brits.
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Source: guardian.co.uk