Poor White Boys are the worst performing pupils

[LondonMix]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Yeah... think the Polish builders started doing

> well back in the 2000s because of the work ethic,

> not the price.

Exactly. Polish builders are known to be better and harder working, not just cheaper.

[Jeremy]

It used to be the case. Not sure it still is.

[uncleglen]

Before the East European builders came the whole construction sector apprenticeships and training had been neglected for some years because the powers that be thought that kids should get loads of GCSEs and go to uni. Obviously when there was a skills gap it was much cheaper and easier to let in foreigners (we could have had 2 years' grace like France and Germany had but the Labour government didn't take it)than to train the British kids. Also when the East Europeans came they were renting housing en masse (my sister is an estate agent in East London and regularly let homes to 6 or more of them) whereas our tradesmen had mortgages, children etc to provide for and could not live in that way. A friend who is an electrician had regular work and then found he was competing against men charging ?20 a day - then he was called in to issue a certificate (renewing the qualification is expensive for a self-employed electrician or gas-fitter btw) and after inspections found several that were sub-standard. Wiring too close to the edge of floor boards for example.

A whole sector of society has been massively let down by a system that puts great store on academic achievement, and at the same time has ripped away the system that enabled the working classes to actually realise their potential.

Just goes to show that Labour is no friend of the working class and exploits it relentlessly and always has done.

[Loz]

The Polish builders were initially distrusted, but, as LM says, proved themselves to be excellent, hard-working builders who created a real name for themselves, at a time where local builders were really taking the piss.

No doubt there were a couple of dodgy ones in there, but that's the case with local ones as well.

[malumbu]

There is some real pompous stuff in here, sadly what I am beginning to expect from many of you who are up your own rrrrsss

And sweeping generalisations. Just look at what you post.

Poish builders are painted out to be from another planet

We are all the same species FFS

More importantly sod the politics and please comment on the lamest pop video on a separate thread.

[KidKruger]

Is that analysis entire Malumbu, or is there still a bit to add ?