I don't get the impression that labour is too expensive. They say they are happily paying more than minimum wage and happily paying 20-25% more than agricultural minimums for the short term work. It's about permits. The A8 countries' workers will not come for such low grade work and John Reid has restricted the SAWS nation permits because he wants them to include in the Romanian/Bulgarian workers' quotas even though they now have the right to travel anywhere in the EU to work at whatever they want.

But you're right, I suspect the farmers will be okay. It's us who will end up with tasteless forced-grown overseas fruit transported further than necessary.

Remember when it was all the rage for UK soon to be students to pick grapes in France for next to nothing!