EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

" suggesting that restricting immigration is backwards and racist is part of the reason we're fucked now."

It is when immigration is not the root cause of the problem that exist: Namely people not getting the jobs, eg unemployment.

• In The Netherlands business undercut locals by using a special EU scheme which means welders get paid very little taxable income, and it costs the business less. This pisses off local welders, NL tried to change this scheme but Poland blocked it.
  
• Some jobs are not suitable when you are the single income person with kids, no flexibility
  
• People don't want to do some jobs as they're dirty and low paid
  
  

So it's part jobs not being suitable, part business exploitation, and part lack of skills and basically part people are unwilling to do the job (which I won't hold against them, I've done my call centre stints) as they're basically dead-end jobs forever.

But it's easy to blame it on themmuns for the government, as business want cheap workers, the government doesn't want to raise tax to pay for education. etc etc...