Archaeology, heritage and the General election

[Jack]

Yep, 'twas fictional, but very political. Imbal was one of a number of city states, each with its own form of rule. The people from the one that had a democracy got the mickey taken a lot }

[Dinosaur]

.....Do not forget that the Single Transferable Vote system in use for the London mayoral elections gave us Ken Livingstone and then Boris Johnson.....!!

Have I Got News For You wouldn't have been the same without them, and the closing of the Bejing Olympics was some of the best TV comedy ever - roll on London 2012, Boris should have got his gaffs well rehearsed by then. If that's what STV gives you then more please, just not the Lib Dems.....

[Windbag]

If that's what STV gives you then more please, just not the Lib Dems.....

Paraphrasing an old Spitting Image sketch on the Lib Dems: "I'm not in this discussion forum, nor am I out of it, but somewhere in between..."

[Dinosaur]

Sorry, forgot H'Angus as well, although actually he's turned to be a really good mayor.....:p

[Jack]

Paraphrasing an old Spitting Image sketch on the Lib Dems: "I'm not in this discussion forum, nor am I out of it, but somewhere in between..."

Ah a five dimensional forum, interesting

[YellowMike]

As for STV - I am assuming this means Single Transferable Vote?



Now to get into the election:

on the surface the TORIES idea of a Broken Britain does seem to answer some short to medium term issues.

However if the charities sector grows as an economy externalising government, does this not in the long term mean that people will be faced with stark real local issues, where governance will have been redistributed across the country in a massive scale. This would necessitate a long term future being a real priority within Local Planning Authorities and Councils.

The other side to this would be that once a charity economy begins and has built up a local dependence, the re-engagement of a nationalised governance and integration of equality outside of poverty zones would mean that it would be incredibly difficult to retract any kind of economic recovery.

In other words it’s a one way ticket, with some long term hardened silo implications.


As for the LIB-DEMS:

tuition is a real winner, but does this take away an opportunity for students and the education system to engage more effectively with the local economy without excessive issues arising from losing their international standing.

Oxford and Cambridge may be able to stir up 100m funds, but how many people can even get into the universities let alone gain from their funding, whilst risking that very important scoreboard standing.

Make no mistake about it

the future of the student in the present, is very much the balance for the education system for the future

a vote for short term debt alleviation could mean an increasingly steep drive in cut funding for the major universities.

This is not old news, but what this will mean is that we are saying we cannot wait any longer.

It has been 2years since the crash and what this infers is that I am unsatisfied with the length of weight before my career takes off.


I think really, we must think outside of the box

the education system has provided significantly for the long term future, I would be wary of selling them short when they have so much hope for you.




and now on to LABOUR , what can we say there really is a lot of waiting and seeing from the previous budget, for the entrepreneurs and the confidence talk without giving anything to be taken away in a few weeks.

There is no stool to be kicked away, but a real idea of governance, as opposed to finance management governance could really show some substance.


We need more than just policy and finance bailout; we need to be talking about issues that are really saying how you want to give direction, beyond the request to business for that direction.


Where are we going, well that depends on shareholder meetings and brand building and management?


Business may be working, business leaders are shying away from increasing their overheads, but really does this complaining and argument lead us towards building direction and focus for those providing a basis for economic recovery.

The people I’m talking about are those who will have the real difficulties in small to medium size businesses, whom must generate the depth to any recovery.

These overhead increases are difficult and will bring severe discomfort, but the real issue is whether those overheads can be incorporated for good marketing measure into the smaller scale business as opposed to the leviathans of industry.


can we really wait and see for smaller numbers of people to create the opening to deliver a depth of practice to any economy>




if you ask me these are the issues which underlie how we must choose to support our profession through these times, rather than any given bill or voting history for any given pony

ponies can be bartered and studded out for any given popularity contest



we really must think about where we as an industry sit within how this will develop into the industry we each must choose



the best of British luck, to EVERYONE (UK residents not just british)

[YellowMike]

this is not going to go away

[kevin wooldridge]

Hey you lot.

I know I am out of the UK at the moment so not totally on message as regards this election, but....I just heard someone on BBC World Service state that Nick Clegg has a degree in archaeology!!

Is that true? Does everyone know this or is it just me who is a thickee here? If it is true does anyone know anyone who studied with him? Any evidence of a minor/significant contribution to our profession.....

[trainedchimp]

according to the tablets of stone and fire that make up wikipedia, in arch and anth from Cambridge no less.

[kevin wooldridge]

Has there ever been an archaeologist potentially holding the balance of power before? If I were head of the CBA/IfA/EH/CADW/HistScot., I might well be beating a path to his door right now.....

I remember the famous Today programme interview on the day after John Major became PM (apparently it is a true story that he was voted for by Tory backbenchers cos the favoured candidate had a dental appointment on the day of the snap election!!)...Sorry I digress. Anyway Humphries asked Major if he had ever harboured ambitions to be Prime Minister. Major replied 'No - I would really liked to have been an archaeologist'....but after that gaffe I don't think he ever mentioned the subject again!!