Our enconomy in North Kent would be dead without them. As others have noted, our football economy would not be dead if we could trawl the world for much cheaper players, but it would damage the national side. In North Kent, the locals decided they were too refined/clever/lazy to work the fields after the war, and a seasonal London workforce has now given sway to eastern Europeans for the same reason. But we have no 'national fruit picking heritage' taking the international stage wearing the three lions to take into consideration. There the analogy ends.
