Helpfull stacker
I hope that your handle has nothing to do with your trade and that you are fully qualified to make those sweeping statements.
Those 'skilled workers' that you point at ARE, in fact, skilled. Most of us are ex RAF. All we have done is chosen to jump, rather than be pushed by the drawdown in the forces. Our skills have not changed.
The VC 10s are going out on time , under budget. The Harriers were doing the same.
I agree with you, I do wonder where the good money is being chucked, (it is most certainly not in this direction).
The TGWU does speak out loud sometimes but they are quite often right. With a £70 million pound hangar just open, (after an extensive business case investigated by their lordships), what is the TRUE underlying purpose of Ingrams decision.
We will find out in 18 months