The post you are reporting:
"The public believes that the Government should ban immigrants from taking jobs while a million British youngsters are unemployed, .."
What is being said here surely is that UK 'citizens' desperately need more job opportunities, especially for those with the greatest untapped potential, and what we get through increased immigration is the Right's much desired deregulated employment practices by the back door.
The unified cry for putting British 'workers' first cannot simply be a hardening of attitudes to foreign labour, it is more of a an increased rage against the attitude, evinced by the policies of successive administrations, that regards the domestic workforce as a problem not worth caring about.
The outlook of the UK Establishment has failed utterly to move on from our days of Empire, and a reliance on the exploitation of, or total abandonment of, the 'lesser' being.
"The rise of Euroscepticism among the electorate is underlined by the surge in Ukip support to 19 per cent..."
There is no "rise of Euroscepticism among the electorate", just a mob-mentality engendered by the blame-shift propaganda of this same Establishment:Politicians, Financiers and their velveteen-glove, the Press.
Yes, golly-gee, we are where we are, and YES it is not where any envisaged we would be and not exactly where any would like to admit we would prefer to be, but the best must be made of a bad job...so blame some(any)body else.
The fault lies, fairly [oops! I said I would not use that word...oh well] and squarely, with us, with our institutions, with our insular island attitude. (yet again, so easily exploited) and perhaps with our ancient village distrust of whatever lies beyond the hill.
If our native workforce is to be allowed to step into the transient employment opportunities, at present filled by economic migrants, we can either cram the unemployed (and certainly the unemployed youngsters) four or five to a room, feed them on pizzas, have them overseen by gang-masters and thoroughly ignored by the rest of us.
OR
We can treat the native workforce as the asset is should be. The asset that 'we' spend so much money in educating and nurturing.
And put them on some sort of retainer.
In order that the changeable conditions of the open-water of temporary, transient job opportunities be augmented by safe-harbours and havens for their domestic arrangements.
Again the fault is not Euro-, but Yours-o. And so the solution is also YOU!!!