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The UK has to transition to a service economy
No country or society can exist on a service economy only. I thought there were encouraging signs in recent years that that aspiration is fading. We need skilled trades (and there are always unskilled jobs that need doing) and a positive outcome of the Brexit undercurrent would be if we actually resourced training properly and encouraged young people who wanted to go into skilled trades, rather than perpetuating a misplaced snobbishness. This might eventually lead to less need for trades to come from abroad.
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The UK has to transition to a service economy while not leaving people behind as it does now.
But the elephant in the room of the "not academically minded" who don't see opportunities in the EU while seeing workers come in from the EU then has to be addressed.
Answers on a postcard? Or the LFGSS education volunteering corps, how to be successful and do mad skidz ;)