Friday 14 May 2010

Back to the day job - plugging stuff for mates

Hard not to get hypnotised by the government slowly unfolding (as it doubtless will no matter how many dodgy constitutional locks they seek to secure it with) but work goes on as usual.

Yes, you guessed it, another BUBB taskforce! We will be drawing up proposals for less stringent regulation of the brolly sector. We'll be producing a 4,000 page document full of rules about cutting red tape. We want to facilitate a culture of openness and transparency such as we illustrated when pig-headedly refusing to publish details of my expenses last year.

There are all sorts of people we are pally with on the taskforce to ensure an impartial view that doesn't simply take it as red that regulation is excessive without exploring why that might be including ex staff members, chairs and sponsors of some of our events.

This is not Umbrella Commission bashing I should add though we will be extremely critical of the level of regulation in the umbrella sector. Which is overseen by the Umbrella Commission. So it is inevitable that they will get bashed. With a great big brolly.

We want to remove duplication. So we will be setting up another taskforce with the same members to explore this further.

We want to remove duplication. So we will be setting up another taskforce with the same members to explore this further.

On a different note, I see that my mate Donald Holding is headhunting for some new roles in the brolly sector. So I will give him a free plug to ensure he gets his commission. Usually, an organisation such as Feudal would have to pay market rate for placing recruitment advertising on a blog linked to an umbrella body's website as the readership among potential candidates is huge. But I'll just simply do it for free and sod the financial benefits to my members. As long as Donald can still afford top bubbly, eh?

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