19th September 2006, 04:44 PM
I've been watching this poll with some interest, for the first half (up to 110 votes or thereabouts) the proportion of votes cast was fairly stable, 50% or thereabouts in favour, and the "nays" in the decided minority. Suddenly though a few weeks into the voting the results swung the other way. To what is this attributable? Are the naysayers members of any particular group that has suddenly woken up and cast their votes en masse? Curious.
It is sad that there have been so few comments about why people cast their vote in the way they did. To my mind (and in my experience) the permit system adds some clout to the curatorial monitoring of what contactors are getting up to. If certain conditions (which could be meritorial/technical, matters of deadlines and form of depositing archives, or H&S issues etc) are laid down in the permit and that is given the form of a binding document. If the contractor does not comply, future permits may (surely should) be difficult to get. Surely that is an additional way therefore of improving standards and conditions, and it seems to me that this has been a leading subect on this Forum, so I am interested in why BAJR members are now so against even the idea, even though those who voted first apparently saw the sense in it.
Paul Barford
It is sad that there have been so few comments about why people cast their vote in the way they did. To my mind (and in my experience) the permit system adds some clout to the curatorial monitoring of what contactors are getting up to. If certain conditions (which could be meritorial/technical, matters of deadlines and form of depositing archives, or H&S issues etc) are laid down in the permit and that is given the form of a binding document. If the contractor does not comply, future permits may (surely should) be difficult to get. Surely that is an additional way therefore of improving standards and conditions, and it seems to me that this has been a leading subect on this Forum, so I am interested in why BAJR members are now so against even the idea, even though those who voted first apparently saw the sense in it.
Paul Barford