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[malvolio]

How about you keep your own biased views to yourself, if you can't accept a valid and totally non-political discussion. And start with the state of the 1997 economy, which Blair inherited and stopped Brown and HMT from changing for years. Once Brown was set loose, that's when things started going South....

[malvolio]

You have to be able to provide an audit trail for the company cashflow for six years plus he current one. Electronic copies are fine, and have been for a long time. That implies you have to have it on a technology that can still be read in ten or more year's time, in which case paper seems to be a good...

[malvolio]

We are in the same position now as we were in the Wilson/Heath/Callaghan period - poor productivity, no real reserves, high taxation and a raft of external factors. That was sorted out by Thatcher's somewhat brutal reforms and Lawson's intelligent budgets. Blair and Brown then got us back into the same...

[malvolio]

It's more about lack of business confidence. Ever increasing overheads and punitive taxes are doing the real damage, plus our exposure to international events....

[malvolio]

Public sector client? That's a classic example of a manager spending his budget in case someone notices that he has a surplus so reduces their next year's budget!

Many year's back we found that the Navy was buying in futures in coal stocks every year because that was what they had always...

[malvolio]

I did undersrtand the regeerative braking. Didn't like it and was a bit worried about slowing firmly without brake lights. Probably could have got used to it with practice. Why should I though?

Come to that, you got the same effect in a 60's Massey Ferguson by closing the hand throttle...

[malvolio]

I have driven a Tesla. Very American feel to it, you're conscious pf the weight of the thing (especially when braking) and I hated the fact that 90% of the controls are on a touch screen.

I quite like driving EVs for their instant torque and general comfort and NVH levels. Just not convinced...

[malvolio]

Court's surname is instantly recognisable as being a major family line. Could be coincidental of course... ...

[malvolio]

Possibly true, although that level of information goes quite widely across HR's remit. But I still don't see why it is part of the application rather than as pat of the interview. It is annoyingly intrusive or irrelevant or a deterrent for some to answer, all at once.

It depends whether...

[malvolio]

God knows how Human Remains think at the best of times, but if the idea of DEI is to prevent discrimination, then asking the usual questions is totally counter-productive. If you are hiring on the basis of expertise, knowing that kind of detail is unnecessary. After all, that data is only needed if...

[malvolio]

Oh we can be sure SKB already is.. ...

[malvolio]

Yes it is. The contract is between YourCo and the agency, or your umbrella and the agency or your LLP and the agency. Unless of course, you think you are not a contactor running their own business.

My first post in this thread pointed out reasonably clearly why the OP was going nowhere....

[malvolio]

OK, so carry on with your campaign. Just be very clear what your objectives are and who your target is. It's not being defeatist to point out that you were talking about the wrong issue.

You also have to overcome the position of the DWP, which is that any business can choose which businesses...

[malvolio]

It's a plan. Two discredited nonentities will surely have the influence to move a £24bn a year industry......

[malvolio]

True enough, except nobody that doesn't currently hold a post needing clearance will have clearance. And the "willing to undergo" nonsense has been around for about 15 years as a workaround. Doesn't make a blind bit of difference though.

Let's be clear. This is the fault of some...

[malvolio]

That's been known for years. That's also been ignored for years. There is an active, advertised LinkedIn group called "DV and SC cleared people only" or some such set up years ago by an employee of S3 Group. I challenged him once - "It's what the client's demand" was the reply....

[malvolio]

Cost us several 10ks of pounds in 2006. How much does one round table (there were many more than one meeting) with people like the head of GCHQ cost, do you suppose? Won't be any cheaper now.

But that's not the point. The issue is of agencies not adhering to the guidelines.

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[malvolio]

You won't.

I kicked off a major push on this around 2006. We worked with the Cabinet Office to understand the rules around clearance (they are not laws, merely guidelines), to understand the financial impacts of drawing ministry resources from a limited (and often outdated) gene pool, and...