A fifth of firms plan to hire migrant workers this year

The trouble is migrant workers arrive in this country because they think life will be better here, and often it is.
I can't blame them for that, we'd all do the same (remember Auf Wiedersehen, Pet?)

And Gerald is right, that companies see the value in migrant workers, and not local workers, especially the young.

It's a problem of attitude to the job, which comes from the fat that we are too quick to judge people as all the same, which isn't true.
So, managers believe that all British youngsters are lazy, and all Migrant workers are hard workers, neither blanket statement is necessarily true.

Another problem is the lack of pride in being working class in this country, something we need to reclaim IMO.

Once again we have the situation where allegedly we have thousands of graduates looking for work but employers recruit migrant workers or send the work abroad. Maybe the whole country should give up work and sit at home and live off the state through taxes paid by immigrants. The government talks about investing in the future of young people unfortunately businesses put profit before the country and young people. No wonder there is such disillution and anger among the young.