Perhaps they are jobless because their industries were exported?? Why was this allowed to happen?
A nation that allows the exportation of their industries is a nation that does not control its destiny.
Brits like to complain that "the Polish take our jobs"
Most uneducated Brits lack the drive to even get a basic minimum wage job. The government will pay your rent, and an allowance for food etc if you are unemployed. The Eastern Europeans arrive, some speaking very little english and manage to get jobs picking fruit, working in factories or cleaning hotel rooms and the Brits are too lazy to do these jobs.
And no, they're not working for less than minimum wage. Britain has strict wage laws.
The minimum wage is about $9.50 per hour. Many British firms prefer to hire Czech, Polish, Latvian because they're not late to work, higher productivity etc.
The problem is British work ethic.