For largely unskilled service sector jobs, where one might consider the worker relatively interchangeable, it is particularly bad if your government also has an "infinite immigration" policy in practice.[1]
[1] Inward migration to the UK was 1.3M people in the year to June 2023. UK population was about 67/68M at the time.
Huh, I expected that to be a Ukraine related surge given the time period chosen but actually Ukraine looks to be (eyeballing a graph here) about 150,000 max in 2022 (if it counted for 100% of humanitarian cases) and 50,000 in 2024: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
Anyway, looks like migration is now down to about 480,000, with the big drop occuring in the second half of 2024.
[1] Inward migration to the UK was 1.3M people in the year to June 2023. UK population was about 67/68M at the time.