20th January 2012, 01:03 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:Also ask how many of them are on ?unfunded?pensions for life (just for me) and why haven?t a single curator round my way lost their jobs yet.
Or why not ask them yourself, if it bothers you that much. Why rely on someone else when the document is available for consultation by anyone? And to say that not a single curator has lost their job yet is inaccurate. OK, none may have lost their jobs in Lincolnshire, but plenty have across the country as a whole.
Unitof1 Wrote:Curators never existed RIP not needed why dont museums pay for my archive
Apart from the logical fallacy of wishing something that you claim never existed will rest in peace, I think that most rational people would acknowledge that curators do exist, and that a substantial majority would disagree with their statement that they're not needed. For most people working in commercial archaeology, the bulk of jobs come through conditions attached to planning consents by curatorial archaeologists. I know that you propose an alternative model, whereby every planning application would have to be accompanied by an archaeological assessment, but realistically that's not going to happen - the housebuilding lobby already complains vocally enough to the government about having to deal with archaeology on the 10% of sites where it's raised as an issue, there's no way the ConDems would impose a system on their developer buddies where they had to pay for an archaeologist for every case.
Unitof1 Wrote:ps cant be bothered to read the consultation
Well, that's a solid basis for criticising it - nothing like basing your arguments on the facts, is there!
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum