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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
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.
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It will cut through, so it isn't yet. So are these foreign workers actually working on HS2?
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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.
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The thing is that there are extremely strict rules on building on green belt lend. Much stricter than those governing building on land that has already been built on.
There also may be legitimate engineering reasons why they aren't going through the forest, such as the ground being unable to take the weight.
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Yet they want to plough it through housing areas, it doesn't make any sense.
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Maybe not to you, but you haven't seen all the reports on the surveys that will have inevitably been carried out. And with due respect, I doubt you have the engineering experience required to understand them fully.
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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.
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Then surely you should be criticising the builders rather than the government which, in this case, is actually trying to support a failing industry that employs a lot of people? The government is not forcing them to employ foreign workers. That's their choice.
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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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Agreed.