Heritage White Paper

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I don`t feel that you are being touchy at all Beamo-what you describe sounds about right.The steering committee or, at least, the make-up of said body, belies the same old tired contrived methodology of making things look and sound good whilst passing the "steering" wheel to corporate shareholders and their interests.What I don`t understand and-will not accept, is that the IFA have not pushed the issue of optional standards one inch forwards in all the years of their existence.The White paper process should have been the optimal environment in which to broach this issue and yet, as anyone can see through even the briefest of readings of the document, no-one really gives a monkies.Much of our transport system (rail) has been sold off piecemeal to private companies who have bled the tax-payer dry for years since.Even when people die using this transport system (no doubt as the result of the cheapest crud wins the contract mentality) no-one can be held responsible despite the reasonably recent "corporate manslaughter" legislation. What chance do we have? Heres an open question for anyone in the IFA that would care to comment-why don`t the IFA see professional standards as an important cornerstone to what we do and, an obvious catalyst to our industries overdue evolution to a modern, responsible profession?:face-huh:

..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)