[MikeSz]

I think the idea is more complicated than that, we have a number of "unemployed" people in the country and are in the position that migrant work is now required to fill those vacancies. We currently have something like 1.5m jobs in the country and a large number of the population on long term incapacity and jobseekers allowance. You can see the logic, and there is a certain amount of sense to it - we have jobs that need doing and the work force there do so them, and the reality is a percentage would perhaps understandably prefer to stay at home and be paid benefits. Of course there is always the cynical view, and its easy to take an extreme point about such a policy and make it a negative one but you would be hard pressed to complain about migration, welfareism and an overcrowded country if such schemes are opposed. Dont forget, someone has to pay for all these people to sit at home watching Jeremy Kyle - of course there will be people with real dissabilities or conditions which make them unable to work and they should be supported but thats not what this is about.