I'm not sure the OP got the thread title correct. Surely it's a lack of common sense rather than incompetence? I do agree that people are far less competent than they used to be though. It would be fascinating to see how the generations that followed me would have coped in Thatcher's Britain when mortgage rates went through the roof and if you wanted to survive on what was left after the mortgage had been paid, you had to learn how to mend your motor yourself, fix the washing machine yourself if it packed up and learn how to do plumbing if you wanted central heating rather than freeze to death. We even had to learn how to make the beer and wine we drunk ourselves.
Fortunately back then, schools had been teaching kids how to use tools and how stuff works, but these days schools employ technology teachers who have never been taught one end of a hammer from the other and imagine technology can be taught with a piece of card and a pair of scissors. To think that Britain once led the world with technological innovation and we've been reduced to this...
Who wants to tell me where Johnson is going to find the people he needs to transform Britain into the high-tech, high-scientific nation he promises? Is he hoping that those who work for Kwik Fit will be tempted by higher wages; and if so, who will be changing tyres and brake pads?
