Firstly, and it has been mentioned already, a recent add for waiting staff yielded no applicants who were born in the UK (National Trust Tea room) , they were all eastern european and very hard working and reliable, this has been so for a couple of years. We do have a lot of migrant workers in the building trade but that is because there is a skill shortage, due largely to firms having to be "mean and lean", which rolls out as no budget for training people which is expensive. The fact that they are working for a lot less money concerns me only from the point that they are being ripped off, exploited, and probably because we are unwilling to engage with them and include them, bring them into the wage equation and make it more difficult to take advantage of them. We are blessed with an influx of very beautiful and wonderful folk and the Odd a**ehole, we have enough home grown ones, no shortage of them.