For most of the past hundred years, the construction industry has been used by governments as a brake and an accelerator for the national economy. A secondary role for the industry has been as a sponge to soak up immigrant labour. In fact, the construction industry has been a useful, perhaps essential, tool for winning elections. So, with an election in the offing, let us contemplate the state of the government and the construction industry's ability to gather speed and to employ the "threatening hoards" of immigrants that we are told wait only for the starting gun to race to Britain in search of jobs, giros and free healthcare.
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