If you read my post above though you have to agree that Victorian houses have their own issues that modern properties do not.
You can't blame eastern Europeans for the skills shortage in this country. Most trade jobs are advertised on £200 a day (or thereabouts) regardless of who is applying.
The problem is that school leavers in this country are told from an early age that they must go to university and get a degree, regardless of the subject or quality of the degree, or whether it leads to a career at the end of it. There is still a view among many that you've only "made it" when you're sat in an office. School leavers see the choice between an apprenticeship that leads to a trade, working in difficult conditions, outside, all weathers, and spending three years at university getting wasted, to eventually get that office job that they've been told will give them a better life (when actually a skilled tradesman earns more than many graduates). You hardly see any kids in this country who want to learn a skill and do a trade, and the eastern Europeans are here to plug the huge gap, not exploit it.
I don't see what "Jakub from Poland" gains from coming here to earn below poverty line wages, considering the much higher cost of living than living in Poland.