The costs , including lower wages, unemployment, deteriorating housing and services, is borne by the community.

The problem of low wages is not caused by migrant workers, it's caused by the poor employment protection we "enjoy" since one M. Thatcher spent our North Sea oil money on smashing the unions. This has enabled supermarkets (for example) to put pressure on farmers to the point where it's simply not possible to employ people at a decent wage. Local people are forced out of jobs and houses; they can't afford to rent housing in rural areas at the wages available. Good news for the owners of the housing, who can sell it to city commuters at fancy prices. And the farmers employ contract gangs for the donkey work, bussed in from cities at take-it-or-leave-it wages, often below the legal minimum. Rightly those with a choice (because of unemployment benefit) won't work under those conditions.

Housing- since one M. Thatcher, constructiuon of new housing has been left almost entirely to the market, which makes more money from building luxury estates and bachelor pads than from cheap housing for families. The remaining 'social' housing becomes a last resort, possibly a deliberate tactic to force people to take mortgages. Mortgages are profitable and act as a powerful social control- you've never heard of a mortgage strike.

Services are not 'overwhelmed' as much as underfunded, and forced to spend such funds as they have on PFIs profitable to the government's current favourite lobbyists. It's not surprising hospitals turn people away when they've been reducing beds for years. Incidentally, you might observe that our hospitals would have collapsed years ago had they not been overwhelmed by scrounging foreign nurses and doctors.

All of which has absoluyely nothing to do with multiculturalism, as that applies to people whose families have lived here for several generations. Most of the "alien" cultures belong to the grandchildren of the "Negroes" and "Pakis" so beloved of Our Enoch and his merry men.