And of course another anti-immigrant trope relies on "them coming over here and taking our houses". But those five workers were contributing to the UK economy at a much lower use of housing than if they'd each lived in their own house on their own.Ben@Forest wrote: ↑16 Oct 2021, 8:57amAs an example I often used to get a taxi and driver who turned up was often the same Polish woman. Over time I found out she lived in a house with four other (male) Polish taxi drivers. They were here for the wages. That isn't wrong, but you can understand that a pool of labour like that will have cheaper overheads than a local taxi driver, with a family, with a mortgage.
There isn't a fixed need for labour that has to be shared amongst those available.
Jonathan
PS: As with minimum wages housing standards need to be set by law and enforced. Market forces won't sort either.