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Originally Posted by ranter
Regarding the influx of construction workers from Poland in general my response is unfortunatly we need them. With the current building programme in the south east especially there are not enough decent home grown tradesmen to go round..
What I find most annoying is that this is a problem that needn't exist.We have not trained enough of our young people.What has happened to the traditional apprenticships?
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You're absolutely right! When I left Secondary modern school in 1957 at the age of 15, 75% at least of the boys of my year went into a trade apprenticeship. Twenty years later nearly half of those boys ran their own business in the trade they'd learnt! Today everybody wants to go to "Uni,"
So we're left with a generation who couldn't knock up a Rabbit hutch! Which delights big business and their puppets the politicians, because skilled "Johny foreigner " is cheap!