On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:36:41 -0000, "Doctor Drivel" wrote:


"Mike Harrison" wrote in message
.. .

It has been abundantly obvious to
me and others (on a Part-P course this
week) that Part Prescot has nothing to
do with safety but everything to do
with shutting down small businesses
(making the environment uneconomic for
them to operate in).

********. Get your sycophantic mind right.
It is to close down cowboy
operators. You have been listening to that
clown Boris Johnson.

If that's the case it shows just how clueless
the authorities are. How many cowboys take
any notice of regulations.

Making laws is clueless?

The cluelessness is in making laws in such a way that they don't achieve anything useful, discourage
people doing things properly and will be widely ignored, bringing the more useful and sensible
building regs into disrepute.
I'm not disputing that there may be some need for regulation in this area, but the way it has been
done shows a mixture of incompetence and collusion with vested financial interests that we've come
to expect from this Govt.

and effectively making cowboys out
of the smaller operators that do a perfectly good job.

A small operator has to do it right and get the quals, that's all.
...and pay the fees to the 'competent person cartel'. For many 'jack-of-all-trades' types it;s simply
not worth it, evgen if they were doing an entirely good job previously.

How many small jack-of-all-trades can do proper tests? Er, er, er, none.

How necessary are tests in the majority of competently installed typical domestic installations
anyway..?
How many incendents have occurred in the past as a result of hidden faults in otherwise correctly
installed wiring that would heve been identified by tests ?