Grass Strip Flyer, couldn't agree with you more.
The housing market is still grossly overpriced and not likely something that any government is going to want to face up to for a long time yet, that will be the real pain for this country, when the true value of the housing market is realised it will make the bank crisis seem like child's play!
We have a car industry that has been falsely propped up and is likely to falter/crash when the cash for scrap scheme ends and airlines are still struggling. Interests rates on CC's at a high compared to base rates, untold debt that hasn't been paid back and unemployment set to rise further still.
I like to see the glass half full but in this case I can't even see any milk.
Wannabes should wait another 6 months to a year before STARTING training and then only with other options to live on at the end of the course. Although I wouldn't recommend this job to any relative/friend of mine but that's another story.....