Poles are ahead with training
Sir Digby Jones recently stated the reason why British workers cannot compete with those from Poland who are taking their jobs - our attitude!
It's nothing to do with wages, apparently, but the fact that British children are not learning much in school, and that here we train a worker to do just one job, i.e. a bricklayer or a plumber, whereas Poles have multi-skilled operatives, who can lay bricks, plumb pipes and install electric wiring to proper standards, and work all hours without complaining.
Why can't we turn out children who can read, write and do sums completely as they did in Victorian schools, by the age of 12, without all the computers available?
And why are builders workmen not trained to do every building job to a high standard, so instead of needing half a dozen tradesmen i.e. plasterer, brickie, carpenter, roofer, electrician and decorator, one person can do the lot?
Surely if they can do it, why not us too?
WF Kerswell, Church Stretton
