Steve..."
Who can demonstrate that it has been a mistake? We weren't complaining when we could, at long last, get a decent Polish plumber or a Czech NHS dentist a few years back, and we don't moan about the fact that thousands of young women from the EU and beyond are doing the kind of work in our care homes for way under a living wage that we'd rather not do ourselves."

Oh yes we WERE!   at the time I wrote several times about what the then labour govt said on unregulated immigration from Eastern Europe.

"To make this country more competitive in the global market place"

Code for cheap labour......At the time I was roundly abused as a racist in these pages.