[MrEdd]

Are there jobs in the UK, or has government regulation driven them overseas?

Often bread and circuses are required to prevent corrupt governments from being removed violently by the populace.
Thus, in the end the foolish welfare projects remain the priority while essential infrastructure decays.

[autumnraine]

Well, it says that they had a period where they were starved for labour and had to get immigrants in to do the work.

So in effect, socialist induced laziness caused the UK to be taken over by Sharia Law.

[dblshot]

Part of the reason their are no jobs is a business would have to offer substantially higher pay than the welfare payments to get people to work. The job might not be worth that. Therefore low end, entry level jobs do not exist. Without entry level jobs, products of British and US public education systems cannot aquire job skills that will eventually earn them substantially more than welfare payments. The govenrtment itself has to pay higher wages to get employees upping the % of GDP government spends. Welfare for those unable is one thing, used to disable it is evil.