'Cowboy' insert trade here. The ride into town, take on the job and your money, then ride off into the sunset never to be seen again and leave you to clean up the mess...

It's a really old, and well known, UK expression, and not an affectionate one.

Although 'Tradesman' (or tradeswoman) is the overwhelmingly correct term in the UK for those kind of jobs, whether the work they produce is good or bad.

It is correct in so far as Trader == tradesmen. But it isn't some "politically correct" thing. Also attributing political correctness to terms is often a political move in and of themselves.

Collins and Merriam-Webster dictionaries agree with him. Down-voters may have considered that the sentence was clear enough anyway.

Didn't vote; In AUS I've heard "tradey" for trades-person.

I think the meaning of trader is pretty obvious from context.

Where the downvoted is wrong is saying it is somehow a PC term.