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Re: New high speed rail link ...is it worth it ?
Where i work in Ealing, where this rail link will cut through, the large majority of workers l speak with every day are Polish, or from Afghanistan or Romania.
Each day when l go to work and see what damage it will do to this quiet area, which is large housing estates, this will all be torn to bits, and yet when these planners got about where they are going to run the line, they can always move it to the North which is where grassland and forest are.
Yet they want to plough it through housing areas, it doesn't make any sense. For the unemployed in the area, yes it will benefit BUT, these contractors are not stupid if they can get foreign workers at half the price then they will.
I know plenty of British builders, who actually employ foreign as they will get them to work longer on low pay, this is wrong.
The government should insist that the majority of the workers should come from the unemplyed and not ply there trade overseas - ie like Butlins.
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