Hey, I disagree with your whole premise, and believe that your attacking a ‘red herring” i.e., the Registration Bodies and the short course people – neither of which have any bearing on “saving your trade” or anybody else’s and in-fact IMO have no effect on public safety.
Before you all kick off, this is my opinion, an opinion I’m hereditarily entitled to as a free Englishman, and one which is based on drugs, drink and loose women……..Oooh and fact (ish)
If a so called ‘License to Trade” with a mandatory NVQ3 run by a single body, let me guess the JIB (aka employment agency fluffers), it is inevitable in-fact a certainty, that the thousands of pounds short course will turn into the “thousands of pounds qualification for License”.
But that seems ok to many on here now!!, (I’m alright Jack)…………… cos they naively think they’re safe, with their NVQ3. But what do you think will be the inevitability in a commercial and capitalists system, where share holders want their pound of flesh and registered charity’s (NICEIC) are in it for profit, what’s the next step on this slippery slope …… yep you’ve guessed it……wait for it………..a new shinny qualification none of us have, at a competitive price of say £3000-£5000-£600000000000000……….:freak:
If you care about public safety, attack City & Guilds or the NVQ/Agency/low wage/blacklisting bile pushers the JIB, or however comes out with the sanctimonious dumbing down of qualifications and sells them. Or perhaps take a deeper look at the education system or, maybe ask yourself does a domestic electrician need to be a physics postgraduate or law degree specialist in British Standards to wire a domestic installation. IMO no…..the vast majority of domestic stuff is in the league of perhaps “o” level domestic science student (GCSE cooking standard), its all standard circuit stuff with no design or thought…real electricians are the Thomas Edison’s and George Ohms (neither of which had NVQs by the way) and all of which used independent thought, much to the dismay of their then “qualified peers”.
I have a C&G 2360 1 & 2, a C&G2391, a C&G2382, a science degree and a decade of tiredness, I know very little and learn from here and else where everyday, which is good and how it should be………… I like being who I am, Im not an electrician, nope, I’m me……do I care about this trade? A little………I do it to survive, doing as little “real work” as possible,……….do I support restrictions to trade and protected professions……….no chance, cos I’m not thick. If it comes about, I’ll creep under the wire and continue with no worries and say FU, cos I know what I’m doing (a bit) and I don’t care what quals I don’t have…if you think your better than me, more qualified…………….. then I say……. in this monetary, capitalist, s*** hole of a country, charge more than me cos your worth it.:bucktooth:
