That doesn't help our children.
Mine are a match for any East Europeans in their age group.
Hard-working, punctual, honest and well-mannered.
The selfish and short-sighted action of British employers does nothing to help the British people as a whole. There is more to leading a happy and contended life here than being able to provide minimal services at minimum prices or manufacturing trash to compete with other trash.
There are plenty of people in this country perfectly capable of driving a bus or training to be plumbers etc.
All that's required is a bit of imagination and in a lot of cases letting go of such habits as ageism....illegal now, but of course still widely practised in this country.