The 'system' is fundamentally flawed. What originated as a pure public safety agenda sooned morphed into a money making pi55 take and has finally sunk lower than a snake's belly.
I'll not be drawn into who's the, "Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the thickest of them all, Plumbers, Sparkies etc" debate. Fact is we all come across 'qualified' people who are endowed with amoebic (that of an amoeba) intelligence levels and similarly those without who are as bright as buttons.
I had 11 guys working for me in my electrical contracting business in the early 90s but John Prescott got the law changed I saw it was turning into box ticking sh1te and got out.
What, IMHO, current society is doing is taking away the ability of individuals to make up our own minds. According to life today, because I do not have a piece of paper I am incapable of doing anything safely. No ifs, no buts. And yet some knuckledragger can attend a 9 HOUR course (according to something Reed & Co put out on twitter recently), and be legally QUALIFIED in gas work.
What I believe we should all be doing is revolting against the 'system'. Stop
completely doing ANY certs or quals or filling in ANY paperwork or any such thing. Obvs keep extensive notes of what's gone on but stop using this fundamentally flawed system so the shysters that run it starve and as it starts to fall over, one hopes those in power will notice and begin to look at setting it back to as it should be by removing ALL ability to make money from it and make sure it is properly policed.
Vive La Revolution !!!
