14th February 2014, 06:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 14th February 2014, 06:47 PM by GnomeKing.)
P Prentice Wrote:and would that be so bad? no more complaints about undercutting so wages have to remain low, no more traipsing around the islands after stupidly short contracts, just a few big employers running their part of the country - happy days - surely!
wrong wrong wrong, so wrong...
lets flip it - decreasing chances of public accountability,still huge potential (nay commercial necessity) to put profits above archaeology, huge potential for stitch-ups and corruption as small numbers of powerful executives hob-nob with MPs, L.Gov + N.Gov, Chambers of Commerce and 'Business Leaders' etc. etc...
More-over, the privatisation model HAS CLEARLY FAILED THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY!!!
Lets just look at Power and Energy shall we ?
Or the Railways ?
Or the Post-Office sell off?
or...so on and so on
never mind the halfy-halfy agencies....dare i mention the EA ? the benefits farce(S) ? G4S ?
Only a die hard ThatcherBlair-ite could fail to see just how crap all this has actually turned out.
BUT MORE IMORTANTLY:
if a market model is to be used to deal with our heritage, then there must be healthy competition (see above for what happens when there isn't)....
(just what is archaeology worth anyway £?£)
...
Regardless of all that;
It is abundantly clear that local communities are best served by well funded LOCAL Councils,
and even,
that much time&effort could be saved if county/borough councils still had excavation services...e.g. for a developer, a large amount of money might be saved from being pilfered by flocks of completely superfluous consultants, and unnecessary multi- tierd corporate management pyramids -
-of course many pyramid dwellers want to keep their pyramids, and, as potential members of a 'corporate -class' , many developers probably are just fine with that too.
The Reality is that just as many overpaid and under-productive people accumulate in the private/corporate sector as ever were present in local/civil services.
However, in UK.PLc today, corruption and profiteering seems even worse.!
So please, could we have a proper think about whether commercial 'uber-units' in today’s world are such a good idea ? And could be please - at least - pay some respect for 'public service' archaeologists, without whom there would never have been a 'Heritage Sector' to profit from.