I think easy access to cheap labour from Europe has a hand in this, pre full European immigration is was a manager in catering, it was never a well paid job but as a manager of a restaurant in 1996 you could expect around £45,000, in 2019 the same job paid £28,000 you find it's hard to get people to get out of bed when the dole pays more. There is a shift to higher wages now we can't just iron over the issues in labour and businesses cant just employ cheap labour. People who come to the UK and settle I have no problem with, my family are all immigrants but what we had where people coming to the UK, living as cheaply as possible in shared housing, working jobs that paid minimum wage, which in comparison to the wages in their country was a lot. They spend as little as possible and save. Fair enough but this has a network effect on that although they pay tax on earning, not as much returns into the local area as it's being saved to send to another country, low local taxes are paid per person, and a low level of buy in to the local area. This is not about people leaving war torn countries but people seeking economic advantage from living low cost lives and saving to go home. In history of people wanted better wages they could walk out, but clever businesses lobbied governments to allow us to have cheap immigration removing this negotiation option and keeping wages low. This does not do anything for the countries they leave either as it raises issues of labour shortages in countries that lost people to the workers coming to the UK. That is what is wrong with free mass immigration. Plus during those periods we had to limit immigration from non EU countries that had skills to offer as we neededed to put limits where we had control, this affected our ability to get doctors from India, nurses from the Philippines etc