Political question, I guess; you could give plenty of different answers. One big one is that the jobs are often in different places from where the unemployed are and there are all kinds of reasons why people can't easily relocate (cost of housing being one.)

For the jobs picking veg in the fields in the fens, the British don't want these jobs. If you're a young East European and don't mind spending a few months living in a caravan with half a dozen mates so you can save up enough to buy a house when you go home, then it makes perfect sense. Not so, if you're a middle aged, recently redundant Briton with a family & mortgage to pay.

For the jobs I interview people for, paying £30-60k, we don't get any British applicants because there are almost no British people graduating with degrees in electronics and that's been the case for 10+ years.

Never a truer word said!

Sounds like it only needed someone to kneel down behind him and trip him up and it would've been perfect

I came for the weekend, attended both games and stayed in the Park Inn at the Leigh Sports Village and must say I thought everything about the LSV was great. Easy access, good traffic flow, fine parking, nice ground etc.

Yes saw that, it was Ryan Bailey.

Thought the crowd was ok for a fixture against Wales, one big plus point was the amount of families in the seated stand behind the sticks.We had no hassle getting to the LSV either, all in all a decent afternoon out.