"There aren't any jobs. None. Zilch. Niente. Sweet fuck-all."

There are many hundreds, if not thousands, of Polish, Portugese and Lithuanians in South Lincolnshire whose response to that would be their language's equivalent of "What a load of bollocks!".

South Lincs is full of them. They take the jobs that our people won't take. Not "can't find", won't take. Not highly paid jobs, but jobs for all that - jobs that at the very least give a worker a sense of worth and self-respect. I can only guess at the reasons why unemployed, underprivileged British people won't take them.

This is in no way a complaint or criticism of Poles, Portugese or Lithuanians. Good luck to them - they did get on their bikes (metaphorically), they pedalled a very long way and they got the jobs. Because they want to work.