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Roland Perry · January 11th 17, 09:11 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 09:36:14 on Wed, 11 Jan
2017, d remarked:
On my last one that was down to about 20% and whilst some of the difference
was made up by an increase in (still reluctant) locals, about 50% were from
East Europe.

I have no idea whether this is because they would work for less or not.

Its almost certainly that as it is in other fields. The brits who used to
do the jobs haven't suddenly vanished off the face of the earth.

There's an IT skills shortage, which explains the various forms of
'foreigner' mentioned in this thread. The British IT workers don't have
to suddenly vanish, there's more work to do, and many of them have
joined the brain drain (so have vanished from the UK you could argue).
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Roland Perry