The issue is that successive Governments have driven the standard of living up and up, including peoples salary expectations. Now houses are expensive to produce, directors of developers demand large bonuses and we wonder why housing costs so much. In my opinion we need to stop mass development to start with and see how we can develop more ...

Hi Paddyman, I hope you manage to get this contract in Barking , but what after that surely this will be a continual struggle to find work but maybe you are used to it and its normal for the self employed. I swap jobs every 18 months or so but still find it unnerving perhaps because unwittingly I make an 'emotional' investment in the ...

I'm an Architect and trained for 9 years also not so great. I had to really rack my brains to find an opportunity. I always prefer an English plasterer because they take more care but hey this is the EU market we somehow signed up to. The only thing we can do is exploit the cheap labour and get developing !