July 11, 2008
Guru notes that the construction sector axed more than 4,000 jobs in just one week, which in turn caused mass panic, serious alarm and raised fears of a full-blown recession for UK plc.
However, being the 'glass-and-half full' type of oracle, Yours Truly feels that this sudden pool of available home-grown construction talent will be good news for the nation.
For the redundant builders will be ideally placed to step into the breach at the 2012 Olympics site in London when the Poles all desert to start construction on their own stadium-building programme for the 2012 European Championships being held in Poland.
This would also be a boost for the UK's café society - or at least the 'all-you-can-eat-big-breakfast' kind of 'caff' - leading to a jobs boom in catering and scruffy workwear sales as the UK's building malingerers avoid taking on the tough afternoon shift in favour of yet another cuppa.
It might well delay the start of the Olympics in 2012, but as our only medal hopes will undoubtedly rest with the cycling team and our BMX world champion Shanaze Reade - who will surely be defending their Olympic golds from this years Beijing Olympics - perhaps Lord Coe and his team should just focus on getting the velodrome ready and leave the rubble mountains for Reade.
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