But I've seen outstanding work done in Bucharest for 25% of the manhour rate at which mediocre work has been done in the UK
Maybe you have! Tis a bit hard for a beancounter to see an "outstanding" piece of work though when it's all supposed to be done to the same standard.
IMO the Uk is heading for a fall, everything is being outsourced at the moment including our call centres which believe it or not help the economy enourmously.
When all of us are eventually replaced by someone earning $2 a day the Uk economy will collapse and all the people getting rich off the back of it will suffer.
The cull has started on the engineering, flight crew and cabin crew in this country already - lets face it we are all bound to be replaced by people from countries with a much lower cost of living.
For what it's worth my local ford dealer charges £90 an hour labour now
