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Well its been an interesting year what with brexit around the corner, and what it might mean for us all in the UK and Ireland . Wee Jimmy Crankie has forgotton in her head that Scotland is still part of the UK, so that complicates matters further .. anyway rather than getting embroiled in politics, I am far more interested to see what it will mean for the construction industry. For the most part, house building is going strong everywhere I look, but the statisticians and money men , and the news men keep talking the situation down. The way I see it, due to the activity all around, constantly building on green belt areas, for example, something is obviously working right, (except using green belt) be it the banks for lending, or consumer confidence to take on a mortgage, which means a degree of job security must be good. Anything getting built here is sold within weeks, and property prices continue to rise, whether there is a correction around the corner we will just have to wait and see. Some leadership in Whitehall with some gumption is what we need right now and dont have. The EU is shitting its self that the whole Euro project is going to fail when we leave, so they aren't making it easy for us, and that helps absolutely no one.
I think we should keep an open mind and see the positive things for what they are, personally I think people forget how influential the UK used to be on the world stage before the EEC was invented. There's no doubt a certain Mr Putin has also become rather worried about the ever increasing expansiveness of the EU who knows where that will go ?. Now we are worried about the skills shortage due to the lack of a labour market, so our industry may feel a bit of a chill of its own when we run out of labourers or fitters. What will it mean ? well.. the skills shortage is keeping my phone ringing .. anyone who can do a job well and be reliable will always be in demand. What worries me is other areas that may feel the lack of labour such as the NHS, we can only hope the people we trust to run the country can make it so, that, there is always encouragement for positions in these areas to be filled without any difficulty.
In the mean time I would just like to say compliments of the season to you all and thank you for being part of the forum and its community, I hope you all have good health, and properity for 2019 however it shapes up.
I think we should keep an open mind and see the positive things for what they are, personally I think people forget how influential the UK used to be on the world stage before the EEC was invented. There's no doubt a certain Mr Putin has also become rather worried about the ever increasing expansiveness of the EU who knows where that will go ?. Now we are worried about the skills shortage due to the lack of a labour market, so our industry may feel a bit of a chill of its own when we run out of labourers or fitters. What will it mean ? well.. the skills shortage is keeping my phone ringing .. anyone who can do a job well and be reliable will always be in demand. What worries me is other areas that may feel the lack of labour such as the NHS, we can only hope the people we trust to run the country can make it so, that, there is always encouragement for positions in these areas to be filled without any difficulty.
In the mean time I would just like to say compliments of the season to you all and thank you for being part of the forum and its community, I hope you all have good health, and properity for 2019 however it shapes up.
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.. wheres that Oz boy ? .. he's already opened his presents 
, we are always first ,excluding New Zealand and perhaps one or two little Island further east .
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