The problem for the ones that need the schemes is that without them they have no worthwhile qualifications.
A national register (licence) with set levels of qualifications and competence would be a threat because they wouldn’t be able to “buy” their way in.
The US have it nicely tied up, to carry to electrical work in other than your own home you need a licence otherwise you will be fined.
The employed industrial lads will be up in arms:
“Why do we need a licence?”
“No licence, no work.”
“OK if you put it that way.”
Believe me over the years some of the industrial lads I’ve come across I wonder how they had the intelligence to find their way out of the womb.
With everyone in the fold fees don’t need to be punitive as now.
Look at it this way. You drive a car, you have a licence. On the back of it, it says what you can drive. Where’s the difference?
I said when I started this, it’s a matter for discussion. Not to sort the mechanics of it, that will take a few years.
