Edinbugh soft-fruit farmer John Sinclair is worried. "I could have tons upon tons of rotten fruit lying unpicked", the BBC reports him saying.

Why? Changes in immigration rules, brought in at the behest of hysterical newspaper editors and panicky culture-warriors, have banned non-EU nationals from taking part in Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme, meaning that the Ukrainians who have provided the backbone of seasonal agricultural work in Scotland are no longer legally entitled to enter the UK to take up these jobs. The BBC says:

Across Scotland fruit farmers are reporting a worrying low-level of interest from Eastern European migrant workers, the backbone of the Scottish fruit picking industry.

And the Romanians and Bulgarians who are eligible to take part in the scheme largely aren't interested; better paid and easier work like bar work is readily available. Fruit-picking is is so badly paid that the only people interested in it are people who can repatriate their earnings to a low-wage economy and live most of the year there. And the pounds weakness against the Euro means that equation stacks up only for those living in non-Eurozone countries and, more importantly, countries with non-Euro pegged currencies.

So, it looks like those evil immigrants are stealing all our jobs again... Remember that when the price of your jar of raspberry jam goes through the roof.

Restoration Village the property pr0n programme you love to hate is coming to Northern Ireland.

Maybe a more appropriate programme given the number of racist attacks in South Belfast might be Restoration: The Village.

We move three immigrant families into recently renovated houses off the Donegall Road. The Jaruselskis from Poland move into Eureka Drive, the Nkosis from Zimbabwe move into Kitchener Street and the Shuklas from the Punjab move into Coolfin Street. Who will be the last to get burned out by the UDA? (And it should all fit into a forty minute slot before the ten o’clock news.)