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This Competency-Card-Crapolla (C-Cs) is just another facet of the "Money is King" philosophy that has overtaken effort and industry as the way forward in all aspects of living in the UK since the early eighties.
I came to London as a young man in the boom years of the nineteen-seventies when there was no shortage of work. If you did not like where you worked you could get another job up the road lickety-split, where an increase in the basic wage was not possible a spot-bonus applied...so much for the dim and distant past.
The stark fact that there is so much more to working than the work itself has been overshadowed by the easy availability of labour and the drive to keep wages low and the rise of the middle-man.
The claim, often made here, that no Government can create jobs is plainly risible in the face of the fact of the shed-loads of money available to Private Enterprises to shoe-horn citizens into jobs that do not exist and to 'create' statistics that appear to show that these schemes work.
What IS needed, and what these several intermediaries cannot provide, is a sea-change in attitude in the way the State perceives the Citizenry. [As I have said before] It is often remarked that working in any/all aspects of Public Service would be much improved if there was no 'public' to interfere with the employees' quiet enjoyment of their work-environment. This goes from Local Government all the way to Parliament.
It is high time [I say again] that the citizen was first and foremost viewed as an asset and not as a liability or nuisance as at present.
These 'C-C' issuers, verifiers and re-verifiers are again another example of Private Enterprise on the Public Dole;paid and well paid to make it appear that something positive is being done.
How can somebody who is thus certified and working in the field require retesting in five years? (A case might be made for the need to retrain or for enhanced training.) Here again is the rub. What can be done to reassure an employer that full training will be of benefit to them, as opposed to creating a whole new tier of middle-man to arbitrarily add to employment costs?
It could be said that Democracy itself is to blame. That it creates a need for some semblance of progress rather than any sustaining of progress, but this is only half the story. Our two-party system is in large part at the very root of our problems. The Partys are so alike they each strive to differentiate themselves and in so doing seek to destroy all that has been done, (to unpick the tapestry of progress), in the hope that they will appear to be doing something. What there is of 'State' in the UK that endures each change of Government must be affected in a way that replaces 'British-Subject' with 'UK-Citizen'. No longer, "The State." but "Our State."
