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@JWestland
As one of these immigrants, I perhaps have a slightly different view.
I agree with the issues that Oliver points out that the single market can lead to exploitation via the backdoor.
However, visa systems can also lead to exploitation. I already read about people being exploited now that companies can sponsor visas and it's very hard to change jobs for people. If the left does not like exploitation that will need to be addressed.
And the current talk is very much that immigration, so immigrants are part of a problem.
Yet I see skill shortages, lack of union power and many issues that are part caused by the local government. I see local EU governments voting more and more neoliberal which of course skews the decision making more towards neoliberalism.
I see money being sent back to local countries from higher wage countries (lots of Polish people, for example, told me their wages were so low, working in the UK for a bit would help them save. This was when the £ was much higher) and who am I to judge?
Any immigrant also got their job fair and square here. The discussion has gotten quite one VS the other. Yet, we could also all agree that exploitation is wrong, push for joining of unions and work together.
And to make it even more complex is that immigrants are not a homogeneous group. Some are quite neoliberal for example and may not care about issues (I am a Green voter) so issues may need to be approached from a human rights/economic view rather than a political view.