English Yokel

Plans for Government to control all employment?

Tell Yokel he's wrong, please! But he's been having a think. The government process might not have started with the Security Industries Authority (a Home Office quango), but Yokel's train of thought did. And then it went on to the Retail Industries blacklist noted in his previous post. Similar blacklists are alleged to have been running in the offshore oil industry and in the construction industries for many a long year.

Now there is the drive for overt government regulation of the professions. Lawyers and doctors used to be left to regulate themselves, now it has to be through government.

It seems as though the agenda is to ensure that every employable person in the country has their status recorded on a government approved database somewhere. So government controls the training and employability of everyone. These agencies will also work to integrate government and private firms, in the way that we now see references to the "police family" including security companies! Already the Borders Police are making life very difficult for those who employ non-EU nationals.

This control freakery is suffocating, but then that is probably what it is intended to do. Just like it did in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. Welcome to the EUSSR (hat tip for EUSSR due to someone, but Yokel's memory can't tell him who, sorry).