waz
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Agreed but I am talking of recent times. Eastern europeans were getting in to skilled sector rapidly and drove salaries down in an already competitive market post depression.
So am I, and in actual fact the vast majority were and still are unskilled. Most wouldn't be able to get a skilled work visa after Brexit.
Here is something from the pro remain Financial Times.
Three-quarters of EU citizens working in the UK would not meet current visa requirements for non-EU overseas workers if Britain left the bloc. The rate would rise to about 81 per cent once new rules, due to come into force in April, take effect, according to research carried out for the Financial Times by Oxford university’s Migration Observatory. For certain sectors the impact would be even greater: as many as 94 per cent of EU workers currently employed in hotels and restaurants would fail to meet existing entry requirements, as would 96 per cent of those working on Britain’s farms.
https://www.ft.com/content/43645264-12a7-11e6-839f-2922947098f0