we don’t need new homes, we need industry, jobs and prospects. Factories and warehouses are being knocked down all over the place to throw up poxy apartments, but nobody can afford them as they’ve got no jobs due to our manufacturing base being destroyed. So whats the point in building 60,000 more! People are leaving the black country as there are no employment prospects to keep them there. The councils and government are an absolute disgrace!

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no. 2 as said it all, stop knocking down factory’s for housing,kwik save depot,conagrie foundry,the bean works,glass works rolling mills,corus steels etc etc the list is endless,we need jobs not empty brand new housing estates.

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Pete of WestBrom, As one of the whining commenter’s let me elucidate the content of my observation.

You are quite correct when you state that what Britain does not require is a return to the low paid , low skilled manufacturing jobs of the immediate post war years … however what I was referring to was the actions of Political cretins like the pipesmoking towrag Harold Wilson whose Government blindly cancelled after much development the BAC TSR-2 project in 1965 throwing tens of thousands out of work .. myself included .. a project I might add which employed some of the most highly skilled production workers in the world and a product which was a universe ahead of it’s competition … in doing so he destroyed an industry …. a consequence of this was my exit from Britain ..a move I have never regretted.

I was not subject to the Obscenity of the Thatcher years … an episode that must surely go down in Infamy but I was privy to the events as they played out, this person singlehandedly was responsible for the utter destruction of an Industry and it is to her everlasting shame …. which must be shared with the Union leader Scargill.

This Country was the home of the Industrial Revolution and world leader in Inovation and Technology and yet it submitted meekly to a set of Global conditions that should have slide off it’s knife and yet because of the quality of it’s leaders it did what it didn’t do during the dark days of WW2 … it Gave in!.

I am an fully indentured Tool and Die Maker and I served a First class Apprenticeship with Nationally recognised company .. I have travelled the world in the course of my duties to my employer and seen first hand the kind of competition that Britain would have faced had it chosen to compete and not submit.

I have received much training and upgrade in the the High Tech aspects of my field .. courtesy of the Government of adopted home … and this prompts me to once again advise any aspiring skilled tradesmen to look beyond Britain for their future.

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Get used to it guys, manufacturing is dead!

If the factories are not being used then why not demolish and build nice homes to encourage those who can afford them into the community thereby generating more money for the community and helping manke it a nicer place.

The guys moaning about no jobs remind me of prople in the 80′s moaning that a computer is taking the place of 3 or 4 people. That’s prgress. If the job you are trained for doesn’t exist in your area anymore, re-train or move because it won’t be coming back any time soon.

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