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pmsl - nowt wrong with it

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

that wasnt the question and isnt at issue....

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

while ive got a face she will always have somewhere to sit

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Local authority council tenders most of them now you have to pre qualify by filling out a large questionnaire and supplying a vast amount of documentation to demonstrate that your business is run to modern health and safety compliance standards and equality standards etc etc which is fine for a multinational but not for a one man band or small business that doesn't operate with an office full of clerks to deal with such nonsense far better to simplify the thing by just demonstrating that the necessary stuff like insurance vehicle standards etc are met and then checking up now and again to make sure that that is still the case

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I don't really see that as an issue to be honest - but your points can be split up into separate parts;

to pre qualify by filling out a large questionnaire

supplying a vast amount of documentation to demonstrate that your business is run to modern health and safety compliance standards and equality standards

necessary stuff like insurance vehicle standards etc are met

and then checking up now and again to make sure that that is still the case

The pre-qualifying is in place to ensure those people who are able to do contracts are actually able?

the vast amounts of health and safety compliance is also a bit of a red herring as this will be in the majority of cases be covered by localised licensing requirements or certificates already held (NVQ etc)? The equality standards could merely be a bit of paper downloaded from the internet and modified for your own company.

Insurance and public liability are part of any normal contractual agreement - again - this is something that can be emailed.

Its bizarre - what you describe as red tape I'd call standards.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

with less than 5 employees you dont need any H&S compliance or the other 100 pages of rubbish, they do seem to love sending emails out though (too little real work in the office for them maybe?)

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Which brings me back to my earlier point red tape means office jockeys sitting in an office producing reams of documentation what this country needs is more people whose job is to go out and about enforcing rules and regulations and trying to catch the unscrupulous out not office jiockeys

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That's nowhere near as good as the example I provided and even if I so myself quite boring

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

TORY VERMIN IN ACTION

SHUT A&E'S PEOPLE DIE
SACK FOOD INSPECTORS YOU GET HORSE MEAT AND PREVIOUSLY CJD
CUT PROTECTIVE REGULATIONS PEOPLE DIE HEALTH AND SAFETY BUILDING SITES LEAD THE QUEUE FIND ANYONE PREPARED TO REPRESENT WORKERS ON HEALTH AND SAFETY BLACK LIST THEM

REMOVE BANKING REGULATION AND THEY STEAL FROM YOU RUN DRUGS AND SELL YOU USELESS PRODUCTS, BANKRUPT THEIR BANKS YOU BAIL EM OUT AND THEY PAY THEMSELVES BONUS'S FOR BANKRUPTING THEIR BANKS.

NOW I DONT KNOW IF ITS ME BUT ALL THIS SEEMS SHALL WE SAY CORRUPT
AND OF COURSE GIVE THEMSELVES TAX CUTS HE HE WHILST REMOVING VITAL BENEFITS FROM THOSE WHO HAVE PAID IN FOR THEM
THEN THERES THE OH WHY GO ON ITS PLAIN TO SEE THIS NATION IS BEING RAPED AND PILLAGED BY GANGSTERS

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I'm getting worried about you toots I thought men were supposed to be the ones with one track minds !!

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I actually dispute what you describe as red tape - I think its standards.

Do you want unqualified people applying for contracts - do you not think the playing field should be level for all?

In respect to larger companies having an advantage - do they really? Office costs, staff costs, VAT, allocation of work - the fact is an owner driver is able to tender for work and can massively discount prices due to the overheads of business being far less.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

My other track is being thoroughly cleaned after it read that book Which, for the record, had no mention of red tape in it, but, I don't think I'll be doing much of once the cleaning process is completed

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

with his IQ it has be altered for him.....

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most