Immigration and Emigration has always existed but until the recent past difficulties in transportation limited numbers and it would seem the wanderlust was more restricted. Irregardless(sp?) of the reasons for the restricted inflows outflows, today those constraints have dramatically diminished and numbers have increased. We have a reservoir of unemployed, a chronic housing shortage, an education system that is allowed to totally neglect those at the bottom and a social system that has allowed the growth of feral sink estates. Somehow these problems need to be both recognised and addressed, while also foreign workers.
But foreign workers are regarded as a force to drive down wages thereby impoverishing both the unskilled and crafstmen. Whether this is merely a perception or the reality I do not know, but the truth needs to be clarified.
Did we really achieve the desired result by encouraging 50% of young people to study for a degree while at the same time destroying apprenticeships? Cynical me would suggest all these young people on degree courses nicely massages the unemployment rate down while concurrently driving them into debt in order to make them docile sheep throughout the bulk of their working lives. Does this vast influx of foreigners merely just highlight some glaring deficiencies in our educational system?

    Time for our lacklustre politicians to start addressing these issues.