Are we, as a nation, adequately prepared for this summer's/autumn's labour shortages in getting food stuffs from the fields to people's tables? We have already told seasonal agricultural workers that they are not welcome here. Are we really going to be able to mobilise enough vulnerable domestic 'workers' to fill the gap? And in the next couple of years, how much land use will go over to more profitable commodities like bio-fuels. I understand that this has already caused food shortages in other parts of the world.

The world needs to wake up, start doing joined up thinking or openly admit that human lives are expendable in the pursuit of wealth.