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Why Eye Lass - I love you - You are so right - I was with others in various departments, teaching in the Hilger & Watts Training School when Heath abolished then training grants of £10 per week for every Craft Trainee, Apprentice and Student (Degree level) apprentices. Hilger naver had any strike at any of its 6 sites in over 125 years of History. That is all fact and I will not be challenged in it. We lost 25% of our weekly pay overnight.
That action Heath took then against all skilled trades Employers was the key to the Tory party's deliberate sabotage of our manufacturing base since and it was continued by Thatcher. No government since ever tried to restore it until the recent desperate introduction of Dumbed down shorter so called apprenticeships for cheap labour where the skill levels after training are far lower than those we taught.
Proof - Some of us were C&G and BTEC Exam Invigillators who knew the standards then and have seen the downgraded paperwork comparisons today.