Mmmm ...
havick .... me old darling ...
You must realise that you are trying to convince a chap who is the (crusty ?) Engineering Director of a very large maintenance organisation based in the middle east .. he knows and works with a (largish) varied multi national skilled workforce ... I would suggest to you that he might know better what the current 'state of play' is in the international industry at the moment.
Cheers
