Well...er....um..

Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin has been criticised for saying that the Government has no idea how many Romanians and Bulgarians will come to this country when they get the right to do so next year, and will not know until after they come.  Well, that's obvious isn't it?  Short of asking every citizen of those countries what their intentions are, there is no way of knowing.  We can make a guess, but that's all it would be.  Once again somebody being pilloried for telling an obvious truth.  No wonder people in the public eye are becoming more and more unwilling to to make any sort of definitive statement.  Safer to dissemble.