"Nine in 10 workers must reskill."

[Workingman]

So says the CGI's Dame Carolyn Fairbairn..

To do what? She does not say, but she does say it will cost us £13bn a year for all this retraining.

We already know that automation is going to decimate the low-skills markets, so she has come up with the idea that: "The right skills strategy can help every worker to progress their careers, drive up living standards and level-up the country"

What are these "right skills" and where are these new job coming from? You see those are the tricky questions and she does not have the answers. It all sounds like a "seen to be saying something" exercise, but with no meat on the bones.

90% is massive and we will still need bin men, delivery drivers, bus drivers, pilots, doctors and nurses, police, fire fighters, solicitors, builders...... just what the hell are the rest of us going to "upskill" to - veg pickers, perhaps?

[cromwell]

A nice lot of money given to training firms then. Some good and some opportunists in it purely for the cash.
They will do all right. I'm not sure about those being retrained as there has to be a job there to apply for.

[Kaz]

Grrrrrr!! Did you see the stupid ad about the ballet dancer?! This Government really takes the biscuit!

[Workingman]

Hmm, the total UK workforce, employed and unemployed, is thought to be about 35 million. What does this idiot expect some 31.5 million of them to upskill as? It is all 'Think Tankery' at its finest.

[Suff]

I was thinking about reskilling as a burger flipper.

Then I looked at the pay and thought "not quite"!