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I don't think the PIGS nations have ever had full employment. The mechanisation of their agricutural sectors will have made virtual unemployment, sons/daughters of small scale farmers with little monetary reward, a Government statistic.
The UK agricultural sector has relied upon the free movement of labour to pick produce for generations, the local 'working class' has always seen it as beneath them.
Where does stopping of 'freedom of movement' stop. London has always been a magnet for those who wish to escape provincial backwaters?
The EU has done more for the UK regions than UK Governments since we began the Trickledown experiment in 1979. Contrast the Thatcher regime policy of 'managed decline' for Liverpool with EU Objective One investment for areas with less than 75% of the EU average GDP/income.
@Oliver Schick would rep for the Billy Bragg quote.