21st June 2012, 12:00 PM
Quote:Would appreciate some considered thought
unfunded pension grabbers..... VAT....., ownership of all the shiny things..., lottery money...grants..., service agrements are not anything..... oh we do everything for the education of children using things like museums which have had their day and thousands of voluennters would be jobless without us. and theres a brick and tile museum as well....
1) Historic environment service is not statutory and existing planning regulation can do their job which is basically nothing. Get rid of them inhouse. It is going to be a hell of a lot cheaper in the medium to long term and you will not notice anything in the archaeological world of somerset.
2)Trust off the museums and cut their funding so that they can find genuine customers and reject unwanted "archaeological" site artefacts and sell things and probably not pay VAT if they is a museum. Be innivotive call them a charity put them on something like ebay for trustees
3)Join the "Archive" with the librarys and look for a way to make it a trust and digitise everting untill its the size of memory stick. Anything that looks like an old book sell for anything that you can get.
4)Tell the lottery thay it has to pay compensation for any future liabilities that any of its schemes that its funding has inflicted on us, generate.
Reason: your past is my past