umeu wrote:do you mean there are people worse off in the world than the british working class?!!? are you asking them to look at this from a perspective different than their own?!?
how dare you dolan...
Well, it's actually weird because in the West almost no native (young) citizen of a developed country would hope or aspire to become a bricklayer or an agricultural worker. Everyone wants to work in high-tech jobs, which pay a lot, everyone wants high-status jobs, well-paid jobs which require no physical labour. So, who is left to do all that physical labour? This is the void that Eastern European workers have filled in many countries like Spain, the UK, France. Also Germany and France were more than happy to receive Romanian doctors and medical staff, because they didn't have enough medical staff in their system to treat their patients.
And, of course, those who for some reason are disgruntled, because they are unemployed or are socially marginalised will believe the nationalist/eurosceptic/antiglobalist/neo-nazi propaganda. These people would vote for Front National in France, Partij voor de Vrijheid in the Netherlands, UKIP in the UK, etc.
If those EU citizens who came from Eastern Europe took those jobs it must be because local workers demanded too high salaries for the same work. It was just the effect of pure competition (inside the EU). But imagine what it would mean to compete with Indians who would work for 10% of what you make. That would be real competition. THe truth is Europe has closed itself off in a cocoon of protectionism. It's a common market which benefits its citizens as long as they buy from the EU and export as much as possible outside the EU.