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Originally Posted by homealone
Unfortunately, successive governments seem too concerned with short term populist strategies, to consider the long term effect that the resultant loss of skills will mean.
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The electorate are exactly the same though, they want results now and if they don;t see them then they slate the government. Seems to be a bit of a mind set really. Why people feel that policies have to be popular to work is beyond me.
I watched a program on Channel 4 the other night where the conclusion was that to halt global warning (or at lease our carbon emission's) we would need to switch to nuclear power. Many scientists are now coming back to this idea but can you imagine a government announcing this to the public? Even if it was the best thing for the world? No because they fear getting voted out. Look how many people protested over the war in Iraq and fox hunting!
Something like a wholesale switch to nuclear power (or the reversal of off shoreing) just isn't going to happen as its not popular enough.
Oh and don't tell me the other party's would be any different because I we all know they wouldn't.
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Originally Posted by dezzo
I think in the next few years more and more companies will rely on UK workers as a reason for higher charges.
Much like the current adverts from Nat West (I think) they'll be trumpeting that they are UK based only to try and get custom from people who pay a little bit more for quality.
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Well you won't get quality from natwest, UK call centre or not. Their problem isn't their call centres (which used to be model call centres, well at least the one I worked in was) its their processing centres that used to mess stuff up.
On another point re: those adverts, I find it amazing that they tout you can speak with your branch as they were one of the first banks to remove the phone numbers from the phone books and redirect them to call centres!