The end of Scotland?

Baroness Scotland, I mean.

As the Attorney General and chief law officer in England & Wales, to be fined £5,000 for not keeping the correct paperwork when employing a foreign national is not just embarrassing, but probably a career stopper.

Anyone who is a small employer will know the difficulties that you face when you try to employ a migrant worker, and we have all seen the threatening advertisements and the repeated mailshots advising on what to do.

That they Minister responsible for putting that legislation through Parliament failed to abide by it is a glorious irony, which serves to show just how difficult it is for anyone to stick to the extensive and extended rules. If the author of the law can't get it right, what chance does a small tradesman have?

However, and here is the good news, the Border Agency don't appear to have pulled any punches and are quite properly treating everyone equally. No kid gloves for the boss. Everyone gets treated equally harshly by the xenophobic legislation.