14th July 2008, 05:45 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by m300572
"largest singe funding "
Paying monkeys in peanuts no doubt!
OK, it only works if you know French!
Sorry, I'm so ill-educated I thought that was some reference to funding following a minor fire (I only understood because of Eddie Izzard), and that 'it only works if you know French' was an obscure quote used as a signiture!
As for Manpower Services work - being fortunately too young to have been around when this 'system' was in place I can only say that I am glad to be operating under the PPGs. What strikes me about the projects that I am aware of in my immediate locale that were carried under MSC is that the results have never been seen since, which is surely just as bad as machining the whole site into a skip! No-one running them seems to have been accountable to anyone whereas now the County Mounties (if they are at all bothered, which in my experience they usually are) are keeping as close a watch on things as they practically can. Surely that is a lot better for the archaeology.
One example of what I believe was an MSC project involved local inmates excavating/clearing the basement of a small castle. Funnily enough they didn't find any finds! Certainly a monopoly on the basis of the pre-PPG days would be bad, but it would be a completely different situation if it happened now, which it obviously won't. As someone already pointed out the existance of Tesco doesn't result in every other shop closing down (not quite anyway!) That's probably a poor example - the existance of large building companis doesn't led to the closure of all the small ones; after all, who gets Persimmon to build them an extension?