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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.
Yes I agree, but what is left? Other countries can produce cheaper. The Netherlands is doing OK atm and is mostly services. But of course the financial service industry has nothing to offer to people jobs wise for those who don't want years of study. So all that money goes nowhere.
Unless the UK wants to introduce some form of protectionism, for which it has to leave the EEC AND we all buy more local which costs more (if that's the case, so be it, I started buying food direct from the farm). The Greens England proposed this, along with some nutty other measures...
As long as businesses are willing to undercut people to get cash in hand workers (see also the Netherlands and Polish workers, my parents had one to paint their house and his Dutch contact wasn't very nice at all too him! I think they ended up paying him a bit more) and we are not willing to pay full whack it won't change.
But perhaps other countries have found a solution, somewhere. It's a crisis in many areas, I can't imagine there's no solution out there in this big world :)
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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.