Define win? I'm guessing you've read Mr Mullins article rabbiting on about how if you stand outside a construction site in the morning all you will see is Polish Paul and his band of merry Bulgarians clocking in?
well here are the facts.
when the recession hit prices for price work and day rate plummeted. For the most part they haven't returned in places they have but mostly not.
Brian the Brit has a family and mortgage and really need to be earning over £35k PA to at least balance the books
the band of merry Bulgarians live 5 to a room in shared housing that costs them about £40 per week to live in and feeds himself on nothing in order to send us much back to their families as possible.
polish Paul tends to win lots of work.... But only once next time homeowner isn't so keen on paying £8 ph for a bodge
brian in the meantime isn't making it on his own his customers have all turned down his work at £60 ph as carol in the office knows this nice foreign chap that'll do it for less then half that. So Brian goes to work for the machine.
6 months in mrs jones has a damp patch appear on her
wall. She calls Paul no joy.. Carol is now quickly getting shunted off the Christmas card list. Ah I remember Brian I bet he'll know what to do.. Ah Brian's gone bust such a shame she crys he was a lovely chap.
so she pulls out the pages and looks for company's that'll come out quick only due to overheads etc they want £90 plus vat ph now the homeowner has a choice.. Pay the £108 or get another polish fella in to lash it up some more, it's 50/50 as to which she does but you get the picture..
just the other day I went to a cylinder that had fallen through a rotting floor because Polish Paul and his merry Bulgarians had left a condense waste disconnected in a crawl space that had leaked everyday for 2 years thus turning the chipboard into cardboard allowing said cylinder to start it's journey to the entrance hall.
it is important to say it's not just polap Paul creating atrocities across the nation. Ian the builder also turns his hand to a bit of plumbing of which similar hilarity ensues