[Lucysgirl]

We’ve always been uncompetitive with our pricing because we pay people to have a couple of tea breaks per day plus time for wash & brush ups at the end of each shift. Germany on the other hand only pay for the time spent working on the job and when they take a break their machine tools are taken over by other workers whereas British machine tools are idle. Their method of working means they are quicker completing contracts, the only way we equal their delivery times is if we take on extra workers and pay them to have tea breaks too.