13th January 2007, 11:07 AM
Just read it..... ! What a hoot!!! Posting a reply there... here is my response...
ps... the Liberal party that Karl is in... got a whopping 1.3% of the vote in the Vale of Glamorgan.. and is in no way related to the actual Liberal party...
Not a very suitable response that... I would hardly call the IFA a left wing organisation.
)
I would also take amused exception to
".....likes of David Connelly a radical left winger in its ranks who can say what he likes and get away with what he likes on his website. But of course the IFA would not expel him because he's a lefty."
First... its Connolly - not Connelly
Second - I would certainly not describe myself as a radical left winger (more of a liberal anarchist )
Third - If you want to have me expelled from the IFA then you can quite properly put a case to them and ask for me to be investigated.. it may be an alien concept to you, but this is called democratic process.
The reason I put myself forward to join the IFA (I went through the full process of application and was accepted) was to show support for an organisation that I may not agree with 100% of the time, but saw as the only group that could bring commercial archaeology into the 21st century and provide much needed standards to benchmark our 'profession' . The views of the IFA membership are as varied as the UK itself - and I would never describe it as lefty... just like I would find it hard to describe the Liberal party that you speak of as ...er...liberal.... I am right in thinking that it is a Judean Peoples Front Liberal Party, that split off and achieved a whopping 1.3% election success in the Vale of Glamorgan.
To echo the sentiments of others.
You have now openly and publically stated you will break employment law... this would be worrying if you ever had to employ someone... however I would find it rather odd, if Archaeology Cymru would ever be in that position... and that any real archaeologist would ever go to work for you, if by some miracle you were able to advertise these ilegal and bigoted views.
and can only hoot with laughter at the closing statement:
"Don't come to me for a job unionists and socialists.
HOWEVER THESE ARE NOT THE OPINIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGY CYMRU, in anyway shape or form."
But you state you are the person who employs people for Archaeology Cymru. shurely shome mishtake.
You atitude represents the worst in discrimination, bigitory and general ignorance that I have seen for a long time....
this highlights a need... a real and palpable need..... for a robust, universal, policed and enforced system (for example the RAO system) that ensures that companies that practice archaeology commercially are registered and run by archaeologists - who have gained that title through a chartered status. At the moment too many people who are clearly not worthy of the title archaeologist are able to use it with impunity.
If it was not for your frankly offensive and illegal views... this would be funny... sadly it is not... it is deeply shaming for UK archaeology.
David Connolly
British Archaeological Jobs Resource
BAJR - http://www.bajr.org
Traprain House
Luggate Burn
Whittingehame
East Lothian
EH41 4QA
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu
ps... the Liberal party that Karl is in... got a whopping 1.3% of the vote in the Vale of Glamorgan.. and is in no way related to the actual Liberal party...
Not a very suitable response that... I would hardly call the IFA a left wing organisation.
)I would also take amused exception to
".....likes of David Connelly a radical left winger in its ranks who can say what he likes and get away with what he likes on his website. But of course the IFA would not expel him because he's a lefty."
First... its Connolly - not Connelly
Second - I would certainly not describe myself as a radical left winger (more of a liberal anarchist
) Third - If you want to have me expelled from the IFA then you can quite properly put a case to them and ask for me to be investigated.. it may be an alien concept to you, but this is called democratic process.
The reason I put myself forward to join the IFA (I went through the full process of application and was accepted) was to show support for an organisation that I may not agree with 100% of the time, but saw as the only group that could bring commercial archaeology into the 21st century and provide much needed standards to benchmark our 'profession' . The views of the IFA membership are as varied as the UK itself - and I would never describe it as lefty... just like I would find it hard to describe the Liberal party that you speak of as ...er...liberal.... I am right in thinking that it is a Judean Peoples Front Liberal Party, that split off and achieved a whopping 1.3% election success in the Vale of Glamorgan.
To echo the sentiments of others.
You have now openly and publically stated you will break employment law... this would be worrying if you ever had to employ someone... however I would find it rather odd, if Archaeology Cymru would ever be in that position... and that any real archaeologist would ever go to work for you, if by some miracle you were able to advertise these ilegal and bigoted views.
and can only hoot with laughter at the closing statement:
"Don't come to me for a job unionists and socialists.
HOWEVER THESE ARE NOT THE OPINIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGY CYMRU, in anyway shape or form."
But you state you are the person who employs people for Archaeology Cymru. shurely shome mishtake.
You atitude represents the worst in discrimination, bigitory and general ignorance that I have seen for a long time....
this highlights a need... a real and palpable need..... for a robust, universal, policed and enforced system (for example the RAO system) that ensures that companies that practice archaeology commercially are registered and run by archaeologists - who have gained that title through a chartered status. At the moment too many people who are clearly not worthy of the title archaeologist are able to use it with impunity.
If it was not for your frankly offensive and illegal views... this would be funny... sadly it is not... it is deeply shaming for UK archaeology.
David Connolly
British Archaeological Jobs Resource
BAJR - http://www.bajr.org
Traprain House
Luggate Burn
Whittingehame
East Lothian
EH41 4QA
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu