Labour's 1.5m homes

[Elsa TLC]

Apparently Labour have promised 1.5 million homes.

BBC News - UK 'doesn't have enough builders' for Labour's 1.5m homes

UK 'doesn't have enough builders' for Labour's 1.5m homes

Builders and developers say reforms are needed to recruit more tradespeople to build the homes being promised.

www.bbc.com

We need

How do Labour intend on getting this many actual skilled workers.
We have currently 2.7 Million supposedly tradesmen.

How many of that 2.7 million are actually skilled.
I mean how many of that 2.7 million are good at their job?

 

[Deluks]

Not enough tradesmen? It would help if they didn't keep offing themselves.

Construction workers four times more likely to die by suicide as 7,000 lives lost, report says

Social media company On The Tools found that 73% of the UK's 2.1 million construction workers have been affected by mental illness. In the last decade 7,000 have taken their own lives.

news.sky.com

 

[Murdochcat]

Anybody would think we need a scheme for uk trained skills. Won’t help with this target BUT I do blame Blair for ignoring the 50% of youths who didn’t go to university

AND anybody young reading this, having a solid trade will mean potentially a career for life

 

[ajstoneservices]

I wonder where the materials will come from as its' still difficult to get bricks, blocks and roof tiles.

 

[Elsa TLC]

I wonder where the materials will come from as its' still difficult to get bricks, blocks and roof tiles.

I can see a business idea coming to fruit.