John Cartmell wrote:

Getting back to something close to uk.d.i.y. I worked at finding jobs for
people in the building industry during the 70s and managed a close-on 100%
success rate to get joiners, brickies, plasterers, H&V Engineers, &c in work
at the end of a six-moth training course. Employment prospects never got back
to that in the 80s and 90s - and house prices didn't go down because that
'over-employment' had disappeared.

When anyone can get jobs any time they want, theyre not competing for
those jobs, and standards fall and fall. Too many British workers are
far too lazy for my liking.

NT