BBC Business News Article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32844354
Indeed. But no mention why this is - Uncontrolled and out of control immigration of low skilled workers or skilled workers willing to do a minimum wage job.
Worse. They ignore the army of millions of the over 50 year old, ex IT Architects, Lawyers, Software developers, Financial Sector etc etc who are either earning <£10k self employed or are pretending self-employment.
the clue to this 'puzzle' is the retail car parks rammed with nice cars driven by 'working' people throughout the working day who do nothing save send and receive a couple emails and turn up in the office three times a year to @rselick when the big cheezes are in town.
I am old enough to remember when, from 9:15am to 12:00 and 1:30pm to 4:45 town traffic was virtually non-existant and the motorways were populated solely with trucks and reps.