‘I wouldn’t wish this on anyone’: the food delivery riders living in ‘caravan shantytowns’ in Bristol

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1. >The Labour government has promised a new employment rights bill that will ban zero-hour contracts and make sick pay available from day one. But a plan to bring in a single status for all employees, which would give gig economy workers the same rights as employed staff, has been replaced with a pledge to consult on a simpler employment framework.

   The Labour party is not a party for the working class anymore. If they can’t even get themselves to ban zero-hour contracts, why are unions still backing them?

2. So they are working illegally?

   >Mack also called on the government to end the “cruel hostile environment” policy to give migrants a route to legal work.

3. I’ll never understand why people like spending what feels like 100% upcharge just to have a selection of ghost kitchens for the ‘chance’ to get it delivered unmolested to your door…

   It’s not worth the issues frankly.

4. Why is this the UK’s problem? High time that immigration was seriously sorted out. Shanty-towns are exactly what we’re going to see spring up in Europe, as the rich get richer and we effectively import a new chattel class to cater to the needs of the rich – all combined with a dire lack of investment in our supporting infrastructure.

5. If they cannot work until their asylum application is approved then why are they allowed to be interacting with the public? If it’s not complete then it could mean these people are serious criminals.

6. So illegal immigrants working illegally ? Assume no proper insurance for their scooters either ?

   If they have the right to work they wouldn’t be working as delivery drivers, one states he is a qualified pharmacist.

   It’s about time these food delivery companies are cracked down on by government, the amount of illegal immigrants working illegally for these companies is beyond a joke. Closing off all avenues for illegal migrants to work is one step to dissuading illegal entry into the UK

7. I think the issue with insisting on minimum wage and proper employment conditions is it raises the end cost of the food ..
   Reducing orders … Meaning less poeple get hired.

   The market rate for this work seems to be £6-7 from the article. If you legally mandate £12 the market will adjust to reduce demand.

8. ‘I wouldn’t wish this on anyone’ – you’ve literally decided to do this

9. This country has the right to choose who can and cant come here, if people come here and work illegally they should be removed at once.

   I think the government needs to introduce a ban on those without full bike licenses working as courriers and delivery riders.

   If the person you are pretending to be does not have the right to work with a bike then the illegal industry dries up.

   Its also worth remembering that anything that at least makes people gett off their ass to obtain shitty food that costs the NHS and DWP millions (through obesity, diabeties and comorbidities) is a good thing.

   The income tax from fast food and fast food delivery does not go far enough, the only people proffiting are the venders and companies like deliveroo……all at the expense of health and the countries national identity.

   I guess these souless business tycoons can get blowjobs on a yacht anywhere but for me there is only one place I can call home.

   We need to make illegal work impossible to find, those hiring illegal immigrants need to be givem very long sentences.

   Why should everything be about helping these people destroy our society?

10. My Brazilian neighbour says that about 70% of the food delivery drivers here in London are from Brazil. Before I opened the article I knew that the pictured woman would be from there.

    Somebody is definitely giving them false hope that they can make good money and live a better life by doing this here.

11. Claims conditions are worse here than in Brazil.
    Why not got back to Brazil then?

12. Everyone crying rightfully about the immigration issue yet when a guy like Farage’s been talking about the solutions to it you’re then crying the far right card. So easily manipulated…

13. ” putting in long hours, earning low pay and facing mental health problems”

    Welcome to the UK sadly, it’s like that for lots of people here.

14. We have a duty to help genuine asylum seekers & refugees but these people are economic migrants & if they are finding conditions unliveable then surely that means less will come. They’re also not paying into the system and expecting free public services.

15. Time to strip Brazilians of their non visa national status.

16. This is what you get when you manufacture an industry out of nowhere. All these middleman delivery companies rely on squeezing people as hard as possible, and that includes the restaurants and other businesses too – which is why they insist on also carrying the menu. JustEat was manageable, because they left the delivery methodology up to the restaurant, meaning a member of staff could help out in the shop when front-desk orders outpaced deliveries. Uber, grubhub, deliveroo, etc don’t do this, and instead rely on a driver or rider they hire. That results in increased pressure on the delivery agent, and the restaurant has to take the flak when the delivery is compromised in transit.

    Don’t use them. Order directly. Run these american corporates out of the country and be done with them.

17. So save up for a plane ticket and fuck off back to Brazil.