I think this is more to do with how companies procure their work in the UK in construction industry. Contracts, continuity, profits etc. From my experience companies are reluctant to employ, they prefer sub contract workers. For 6 years I managed jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne and most of the workforce travelled down from Scotland (Ayrshire, Kilmarnock area). The company was never sure of continuity due to the tender process. Release of contracts from housing associations was never to a fixed timeline. The company would not employ locally. Its a vicious circle. In another another industry, I know someone who uses foreign workers, as the skills are no longer in this country. But they dont train people, they do do not have apprenticeships. Short sighted. I know several Brits that work abroad, or offshore in the oil industry. Should they be stopped as they are from those countries? I imagine lots of folk would be unhappy at that. Cant have it all ways. EU workers taking jobs could be easily reduced though. Jobs would need to have a contract of employment. Overnight the construction industry would be changed. No longer would it just be a matter of registering with an agency, and Bobs your Polish uncle. The Government is frequently a big culprit though in shafting the construction industry because they fail to plan schemes far enough ahead. They change, cancel, p1ss about. Its all too linked in with the political cycle. Things like HS2, where ££££s have been spent already. You would be amazed at some of the invoices from Consultancy Companies for schemes like this, planning, public consultations etc. Big bucks. But they will still contract out to companies that will sub out, sub out, down the line. UK companies though put shareholders first and are the first to moan about skills shortage. Changing EU immigration does little to resolve the decades of decline and short sighted nature of the beast.
If we do go full Brexit, there is little point in stopping there. The UK government is a bigger problem; https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-b...-no-deal-brexit-ferry-contracts-idUKKCN1QI4BR Another chunk out of 'the huge savings we will make'.
Good 'ol Grayling Today a National Audit Office report showed “disastrous decisions by Chris Grayling at the Ministry of Justice have wasted nearly half a billion pounds of public money” on the failed contracting out of Probation Services. Plus on Wednesday there was a damning report by the public accounts committee report on his “mismanagement of the railways".
Interesting that there is little media coverage on this. Though no surprise that the Daily Hate Mail forgot to put his picture on the front page with Enemy of the people as the headline.
here you go, one for the brexiteers https://www.rt.com/shows/alex-salmond-show/451435-brexiteers-europe-relation-negotiations/ . and one for the remainers, particularily the second half for the scots https://www.rt.com/shows/alex-salmond-show/452631-scotland-brexit-vote-may/
The money Grayling has lost should come out of his own pocket or failing that, out of the Tory party. You could almost argue that what he did was criminally negligent.
Only way that will happen is at the next GE I’d have thought. Do they hope it’s all forgotten by then ?
