Roland Perry wrote:
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, at 08:29:54 on Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Recliner remarked:
There are probably more man-hours involved in the UK keeping them
maintained, than there were in Germany building them.

Not all of the TBMs are yet in use, so the were definitely German jobs
involved in their construction in 2012.

Do we know how many?

And why are German jobs even an issue, it's UK-based jobs that the claim was about.

Did it actually mention UK jobs, or just jobs in the supply chain?

To be pedantic, it didn't mention how long the jobs lasted either. So do
they count, as part of the 18k, the person whose full time job it was for
a week to do some work on their website?

To make any sense it must mean 18k extra jobs every day of the year, and
the TBM manufacturing jobs are well out of the pipeline now. Perhaps we
should be more concerned about the Mercedes buses taking the navvies to work every day?

The actual words we
"Europe's largest current construction project is now halfway through,
having absorbed over 25 million working hours and produced around eight
miles of tunnels. Last year and this year the project supported the
equivalent of 13,800 full-time jobs throughout the supply chain."

So the number of jobs appears to be 13,800 FTEs, across Europe. And yes,
that probably includes web site developers and maybe bus builders, too.