The situation is only going to get worse and that’s going to happen very rapidly if this current UK Government is allowed to trash all the laws and regulations of “EU origin” we have are trashed, completely ignoring the fact that we were part of the legislative body that created them in the first place.

I’m of the “Auf Weidersen” generation, I didn’t go to Germany to work but got very close to doing so, as many guys I still work with did, many others went to Australia and took their families, qualification recognition was never an issue in the 80’s and 80’s, only any job here in the U.K. or abroad you would get a start and the foreman would check it at morning break time to decide if you were staying or going, though I remember a few guys never made it past twenty past eight in the morning.

Over the last five years I have covered England and Wales for three bathroom companies, even that means I have worked under two different Part P regimes, the UK Government and Welsh Government cannot even agree to match legislation, all these problems are home grown not due to the EU.

My Google maps timeline shows I have down the equivalent of covering the whole of the Island of Ireland, but work wise it also shows that as an electrician I have had to abide by different rules depending on where I was.

The situation is only going to get worse and that’s going to happen very rapidly if this current UK Government is allowed to trash all the laws and regulations of “EU origin” we have are trashed, completely ignoring the fact that we were part of the legislative body that created them in the first place.

I’m of the “Auf Weidersen” generation, I didn’t go to Germany to work but got very close to doing so, as many guys I still work with did, many others went to Australia and took their families, qualification recognition was never an issue in the 80’s and 80’s, only any job here in the U.K. or abroad you would get a start and the foreman would check it at morning break time to decide if you were staying or going, though I remember a few guys never made it past twenty past eight in the morning.

Over the last five years I have covered England and Wales for three bathroom companies, even that means I have worked under two different Part P regimes, the UK Government and Welsh Government cannot even agree to match legislation, all these problems are home grown not due to the EU.

My Google maps timeline shows I have down the equivalent of covering the whole of the Island of Ireland, but work wise it also shows that as an electrician I have had to abide by different rules depending on where I was.

I agree  with Mike here. But I do think that the more rules there are, the more expensive it becomes as layer upon layer of useless ill-conceived nonsense is continuously heaped upon the shoulders of the little man at the bottom of the inverse pyramid. We need fewer but clearer rules if we need any at all.

More rules mean more unproductive non-jobs for the otherwise unemployable at the expense of the Little Man at the bottom of the pile.

I admire the breadth of your "local" patch. Personally I grumble going far "off-site" for a day ;-)  But joking aside, would you consider that you  really see it as necessary or  useful to have to remember and to abide by multiple sets of fractionally different  rules depending where you go, or is it just a pain ?

I'd like to think the quality of work done and general approach is set by the nature of the task, not  a specific approved body membership, or even  a mandated  set of regs of specific date, or worse still the whim of some political type in a  devolved govt or whoever ?

Mike.

Wow - that is a looooooot of range to cover - almost no where in England and Wales does not benefit from your work........good going.

Do you burn through a van a year doing - what - 80 000 miles per year? The Van has to be a rather large overhead.........

Your hotel bill must be enormous too. And mostly domestic? I admire your ability to say yes to a job.