How should British Archaeology be run

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well plenty of "us" would not have a job but those who can win the so called ?1 tender and turn it into more would win. We would have a lot more potential clients so heres an argument, lets say I have a client who comes to me with what looks like a topsoil strip and watching brief currently I have to find out if that is what is wanted from the bloody **** curator who as soon as they say yes the so called authority wants a watching brief of a topsoil strip that is what I am stuck with. I get no oppertunity to develope anything other than the what the curator wants. Most of the time in that situation I would prefer to not be on the clients site with their builders doing what they want I would prefer to do an evaluation well infront of any development. Why should I develope some community archaeology scheme within the set up or see if I can squeeze some cash for a radiocarbon date out of the client which obviously would cost a bit more. No cant do that because the stupid curator system sets the crap standard and us archaeologists have to be seen to find the crap lowest cost standard for the pretend tender because the curator sole purpose is to make sure that us cowboy archaeologists arnt seen to rip the client off using the curators authority.