Blacksheep. it hasn't been limited to Hatfield in recent years. Taking up your point;
Transport depots staffed by foreign workers on minimum wage incomes and IT companies where the employees remit all their spare cash to the folks back home in India are no substitute for proper jobs.
, it has reminded me of the present day BAe incarnation, BASE. There was much weeping wailing over the cessation of shipbuilding in Portsmouth (again). Although they were not on "minimum wage", there wasn't much publicity given to the bulk of those made redundant being Polish; as I understand it.