Reply to: More grim news for Swindon

[Solidec]

... and so do we, now that Labour have put 90,000 builders out of work recently. British workers should have first pick of jobs in our country. Could you see the French or Spanish just sitting back and accepting this situation in their countries? Imagine a barge full of english workers sitting off the coast of France doing French jobs while the French sat at home unemployed!!

Your answer would be a big naive 'YES' of course !!

If they are prepared to work for the same rates as the Poles, then by all means, give em first refusal.

I venture to guess that the work may well have been tendered and the Poles cam back cheapest!

[DimPrawn]

I'd quite forgotten the name 'Dorcan', then you mention it and bring it all flooding back.

Thanks for that, I shall do the same favour to you one day. Possibly down a dark alley when you're not expecting it.

Visit Dorcan, no one leaves the same person.

[Mich the Tester]

British workers should have first pick of jobs in our country.

Why? Don't you believe in free markets and competition?

[threaded]

And yes I know what I am talking about with a BEng(Hons)
in Mechanical Engineering.

Sir

Anybody whom has anyone whom has gained the above degree has my upmost respect - Mechanical Engineering being one of the most difficult degreees to acquire.

How does a Masters in Engineering Design rate?

[AlfredJPruffock]

And yes I know what I am talking about with a BEng(Hons)
in Mechanical Engineering.

Sir

Anybody whom has anyone whom has gained the above degree has my upmost respect - Mechanical Engineering being one of the most difficult degreees to acquire.

[Cyberman]

About 99% of the work building a nuclear power station requires no previous direct experience. Apart from the heat source a coal fired power station is pretty much the same as a nuclear power station.

And yes I know what I am talking about with a BEng(Hons)
in Mechanical Engineering.

Perhaps you can discuss it with our Tester friend because I find it akin to talking to the proverbial brick wall !! He is in complete denial and surely must be a Labour supporter because he shows all of the traits !!

[minestrone]

You show your ignorance yet again and being sarcastic does not help your case. POLAND HAS NO NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS !!!! Repeat..... POLAND HAS NO NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS.

About 99% of the work building a nuclear power station requires no previous direct experience. Apart from the heat source a coal fired power station is pretty much the same as a nuclear power station.

And yes I know what I am talking about with a BEng(Hons)
in Mechanical Engineering.

[threaded]

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/new..._jobs_at_Tyco/

HUNDREDS of Swindon staff are facing redundancy – because of ‘globalisation gone mad’.

Tyco Electronics UK, which has its head office in Dorcan, is understood to be making 223 workers redundant.

This includes around 100 employees at its Cheney Manor factory. Work will be transferred to the Czech Republic.

Tyco designs and manufactures electronic components.



Hot on the heels of Honda shutting down for 4 months.

At this rate Swindon won't be worth living in.

I'd quite forgotten the name 'Dorcan', then you mention it and bring it all flooding back.

Thanks for that, I shall do the same favour to you one day. Possibly down a dark alley when you're not expecting it.

[Mich the Tester]

... and so do we, now that Labour have put 90,000 builders out of work recently. British workers should have first pick of jobs in our country. Could you see the French or Spanish just sitting back and accepting this situation in their countries? Imagine a barge full of english workers sitting off thye coast of France doing French jobs while the French sat at home unemployed!!

Your answer would be a big naive 'YES' of course !!

Yes, I have work in another EU country because apparently I'm the best candidate for the job (which isn't saying much admittedly). That's the only criteria an employer should have to use. Anyone who moans that they've lost their job to an immigrant is a useless loser who should have done better.

[Cyberman]

Indeed, but it does have a plentiful supply of trained electricians, plumbers, engineers, scientists and other people who can be quite handy when attempting to build a power station. Britain hasn't, and certainly didn't when these contracts were signed.

... and so do we, now that Labour have put 90,000 builders out of work recently. British workers should have first pick of jobs in our country. Could you see the French or Spanish just sitting back and accepting this situation in their countries? Imagine a barge full of english workers sitting off the coast of France doing French jobs while the French sat at home unemployed!!

Your answer would be a big naive 'YES' of course !!

[sunnysan]

Swindon

Isnt the railway museum in Swindon?

Thats surely a big enough drawcard to keep it virbrant?

[Mich the Tester]

You show your ignorance yet again and being sarcastic does not help your case. POLAND HAS NO NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS !!!! Repeat..... POLAND HAS NO NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS.

Indeed, but it does have a plentiful supply of trained electricians, plumbers, engineers, scientists and other people who can be quite handy when attempting to build a power station. Britain hasn't, and certainly didn't when these contracts were signed.

[Cyberman]

Yes, last time I visited Poland they were all using candles to light things up and banging on drums to communicate.

You show your ignorance yet again and being sarcastic does not help your case. POLAND HAS NO NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS !!!! Repeat..... POLAND HAS NO NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS.

[Mich the Tester]

never was

You could rebrand Swindon as a cheap euthanasia drive-in. Put a few landmines on the magic roundabout and charge a toll for entering. BOOMED!

[Cyberman]

... and I don't suppose that rising taxes on companies and employees and the minimum wage has anything to do with companies wishing to relocate. That is down to Labour !!