Immigration to the UK has created a labour surplus. It's not a coincidence that the UKIP is doing well.
(obviously this isn't completely true, but the financial industry is even bigger as a percentage of exports in the UK than it is in the US, although nowhere near Liechtenstein levels)
Or the economy hollowing out and immigration amplifying the problem. They're certainly not mutually exclusive.
Establishment EU politicians seem to generally support immigration, which makes sense if one's objective is to lower the cost of labour for business (and weaken the power of unions).
Importantly, taking unemployment overall conceals that fact that certain portions of the workforce (i.e. the young and low paid) are disproportionately affected by a rapid influx of young tradesmen and low-skilled workers.
On the other side, lost jobs are lost because there's no more need for them. One robot caused one thousand of unemployed factory workers, and the need for this kind of jobs is not going to increase anymore.
Or are you trying to say that lowly skilled workers from closed factories would somehow successfully fill roles in finance or technology, but there are only immigrants staying in their way.
Lots of immigrants work service/retail jobs that aren't possible to fill overseas.
>On the other side, lost jobs are lost because there's no more need for them. One robot caused one thousand of unemployed factory workers, and the need for this kind of jobs is not going to increase anymore.
Yup.
>Or are you trying to say that lowly skilled workers from closed factories would somehow successfully fill roles in finance or technology, but there are only immigrants staying in their way.
What I'm saying is that a bigger labour pool increases competition for existing jobs and high rates of immigration makes this worse. Supply and demand.