I'm in the south mate so no good to you, but go for it, the more people who avoid agencies the better, I'm really starting to ate them "just tramps"
They are taking bigger and bigger chunks from peoples waging and the companies who use them are tramps as well. We have a wage inflation, but they are taking it.
If people just held out and said no to them, they would pop in the end.
Labour helped breed these tramps along with other ideas to keep on adding more and more tramps on the backs of trades people.
Ive made my decision that if I can not survive working for the public and other Electrical contractors direct then I won't be staying in this industry and I won't have an issue getting rid of my van, tools the lot.