Regardless of the figures, there are a few perennial things in "discussion" of immigration that crop up consistently-

To take someones's job- This is an interesting concept. It creates the idea that a job is something that can be snatched from someone's hands, like a pint or a handbag. Unfortunately, if it happens like that, then the work is most likely black market, and is likely to involve only illegal foreign labour, generating a product or service at a great, but unfortunately illegitimate, saving to the very people who bluster about jobs being taken.

If it's legitimate employment, then, in my experience, this is usually what happens. A job vacancy appears- one which, if it's the kind of thing a newly-arrived immigrant can do, probably became vacant because it's so tedious, demeaning or poorly paid that its previous incumbent had his/her fill and quit.

The employer considers various applicants, and selects one on the basis, probably not of skills (as these are minimal), but how long the applicant is likely to remain in this lousy post, and how hard s/he is willing to work to keep it. Again, since a newly-arrived immigrant with minimal language skills is not likely to have much in the way of choice, chances are that s/he will come up trumps in that category. It may well be that, as one of my neighbours recently claimed, that they are willing to work for less, but if it's above the minimum wage then I'm afraid that's just capitalism. And if it's below, then that is also the case, but in the old-fashioned sense of "outright bloody exploitation/alienation" (oops, put that Marx away).

Even if you live in an area with high immigration impact, seriously, how many unskilled natives do you know who are unemployed ? According to the Faggot, sorry the Independent, quoting the DoE, although unemployment has risen recently there are still more people in employment than at any time since it was recorded. And how long would you expect those people to remain unemployed ? Not long, I'd reckon, if they're not "wasters" (as I read British workers described by one employment agency that prefers dagoes).

And who with a grain of sense would turn away skilled workers when we constantly hear about the lack of them ? One third of the health service is staffed by immigrants. Stick 'em on the boat back to Key Worker Land !

It may well be that this changes when marauding hordes of Olgas and Vanyas "pour in" over the next two years. I've no idea what right overseas EU members have to welfare if they have held no employment at all. I very much doubt that someone could arrive and, if they had no luck job-hunting at first, just sign on. And if things did get to the bursting point that the redtops predict, then I imagine word would get back to their home countries and their little brothers and sisters would probably decide to stay put. Especially since they will most likely be "taking" British jobs in the form of overseas outsourcing by then. The BASTARDS ! They don't come over here, take our money and we drink their beer !