Judy

But ask yourself, would a 50 year old umeployed person be happy to work for £5 an hour with no benefits cleaning 12 hours a day or picking fruit?

And if you say yes, why aren't they? If a few hundred thousadn young Eastern Europeans manage to find such jobs, why not the British 50 year olds?

A Thorn, London,

Not having seen the film, Judy understandably misses the point; how paid immigrant labour is bad for everyone apart from employers. People here have seen work change from secure jobs that might last a lifetime to casual labour, agency work and short term contracts. It's a disaster for workers here as well as those who work for starvation wages in appalling conditions. Exploitation is bad whoever is being exploited. Also, the countries who are losing their workforce are also suffering. Poland has lost two million of its skilled workforce. Meanwhile we are being sold clothes in supermarkets produced by people in Bangladesh who are paid 4p an hour. A crazy world. But that's what market economics produces. Let's repeal the anti-trade union laws so that the unions can defend people here and let's give all workers the same rights and protection, however long they've been employed and wherever they're from. Then bad employers will not be able to divide and rule.

Ken Loach, London, UK

Fifty year old unemployed people have no rights either. Isn't it strange how nothing is ever said about that? Still and all, they don't have the very emotive word 'immigrant' attached to them do they? It makes them very easy to ignore. Ken Loach needs to look much closer to home to see hardship, it's right here amongst the indigenous population. How typical that we have no sympathy with our own but every foreigner in the country is 'having a bad time'. It makes me sick.

Judy , Liverpool, england