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Old July 13th 16, 10:56 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Conductors axed from NB4L/New Routemaster/Boris Bus

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:36:19 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:46:53 on Wed, 13 Jul
2016, d remarked:

If you've got a family and rent/mortgage to pay you can no longer
afford to have a job in construction (for example)


I thought plumbers were paid quite well.


I was talking more building sites. High paid blue collar jobs are probably
safe for now.

Round here, the work the locals have 'lost' is crop-picking.


Go into any shop and see how many english accents you hear behind the counter.
I visited dorset a couple of weeks back and was amazed to actually hear english
people working in Costa. Either the immigrants haven't made it down there yet
or the local rents & house proces are low enough to make it possible.

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Spud