My Polish wife and I watched with interest the BBC 2 documentary “The Poles are coming”. As the programme inferred, there’s no such thing as unemployment in Britain. If you’re not fussy about what you do – and clearly, unlike young Brits, Poles have no problem picking butternut squash oranges 10 hours a day at just above the minimum wage – there’s plenty work available.

Sure the “yuuufs” quizzed on the street quickly turned on their heels when offerded this type of work. Why bother getting up at the crack of dawn and labouring all day in the Fenns. State handouts are far more attractive.

My spouse tells me that in Poland you either work or go hungry. State benefits are negligible. Little wonder so many Poles are attracted to Britain. Loads of jobs (that Brits won’t do) three-times better paid than back home. Who can blame them?

Rather than fetching the mayor of Danzig over to Peterboro’ to lure his countryfolk back home, perhaps the BBC should be sending British DHSS officers over to Danzig.