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  Daily Mail advertised ten fictitious job vacancies in towns and cities across Britain. Advertisements were placed online, in newspapers and in shop windows. All of the jobs we offered purported to pay above the national minimum wage.
  
  The responses provide a fascinating snapshot of Britain's 21st-century labour market.
  
  A 25-hour-a-week cleaning job paying £10 an hour that was advertised in London attracted in excess of 225 applications. Of these, just 17 were from British workers.
  
  The remainder were drawn from individuals living in this country but who originated in one of 41 countries across the globe. Romanians and Poles were heavily represented. But so, too, were workers from further afield — from Nepal, Brazil and China.
  
  The kitchen job in Manchester, meanwhile, attracted 46 applications of which almost two-thirds were from foreign-born workers. The number of Spanish applicants for this and other jobs was eye-catching: a reflection, perhaps, of the economic problems in their home country.
  All of the jobs advertised attracted applications from foreign-born workers.
  Among the native applicants there was little evidence of the long-term unemployed looking to take their first step back into paid employment.
  
  Many of the British hopefuls were students looking to pay their way through courses or school-leavers embarking on their first jobs.
  The foreign applicants appeared eloquent and intelligent; most stated a determination to work hard and to get on.
  
  So Alexander there are jobs but not ones the Brits seem interested in doing. Thats why there are so many foreigners and ''East Europeans'' as you call them working in the UK.

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