Credit where credit's due, when it comes to spinning a bit of politically-driven malice out of nothing there's not a paper to touch the Daily Mail.
Not that scare stories are a particularly hard trick to master - facts and figures are redundant as long as you have a year-old case, now very sketchily remembered, and some big numbers to stick at the end. Who needs actual evidence when things can be proved just as easily by insinuation? To cover your back, make sure you bury the real story - gangmasters who refuse to employ British people because they know it's far easier to exploit foreigners - somewhere at the bottom, just above the place where people start paying attention again. It's a low risk strategy: a few plurals in the headline and your point's already been made.
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