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[email protected] · July 13th 16, 04:33 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 10:56:06 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.

New buildings need plumbing too.

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.

Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsburys have entirely white English staff as
far as I can tell. Although the most usual language you'll hear from
customers, in Tesco at least, is Polish.

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.

Pubs and coffee shops seem to be split between those who employ
almost entirely eastern Europeans, and those who employ almost
entirely English. It's striking enough that it has to be some sort of
policy, rather than just random.

In Ely maybe. Tesco Cambridge is more diverse, in staff, customers and
goods, than Bar Hill. I was told in Bar Hill when asking for some Polish
cooked meats there that "they don't do that demographic".

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Colin Rosenstiel