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Ade, now you are where I was when the whole NESN thing kicked off. The only difference is that I had years of experience myself by that point and a load of people with decades of experience to call on for advice, for free.

Many of these people, such as my old man, Ernie and a load of “old hands” told me that I was off my rocker when I said I wanted to change things. They may well have been quite correct.

On the other hand…

It did lead to the mailing list, UKW being here, ISE, the WTA and goodness knows what else in the future. So, maybe I am a lone nutter but at least I got up off my fat, lazy ass and tried to do something about it.

In all fairness and, as I have said elsewhere or, at least alluded to, this didn’t happen all by itself. I have had a lot of help along the way from the people that are involved directly and from the people that make up what UKW etc. is. It’s a team sport, not a one-man event.

I have a lot of people to be thankful for and I (in my mind) owe a lot of people in this trade, especially the repairers. I don’t forget it.

There are several people out there that are just as anxious as you to batter some suits around the head with a blunt instrument until it hurts, a lot. Then put the video on YouTube to serve as a warning to the other carrion. And, then go back and do it again just to make sure that the message was received and understood.

This is war basically. A war where you have to understand who the targets are, what the objectives are, where the places and points that will hurt are and how to reap the maximum damage.

But it’s like sticking your nose into a firefight at times, unarmed. You’ll get mowed down and probably not many, if any, will care.

So, if you accept that you can’t fight a superior force with a frontal attack, you go another route. My preferred option is guerilla warfare but the whole suicide bomber thing never really appealed to me. It’s just so cliched and I’d never have the heart to ask anyone to make a sacrifice of that magnitude for a cause, regardless of how just I thought it was.

Without going into huge detail on why that is can I just say that the WTA plays it’s role in making the repairers much, much stronger. A core element of that is the OFT approval and, no, this isn’t a bl00dy pitch, it’s the truth. The OFT thing gives legitimacy, credence and whatever other term or word you choose to use, to the WTA. It makes it credible basically and a force that has to be listened to as it’s given a big, big voice.

You guys run that, you’re responsible. I help, advise and all that cr4p but, it’s your graft. Not mine.

That goes much more so or you Ade on the OFT front.

Trust me, that will p1ss off a lot of people when we get it and, rightly so. It will also make them HAVE to look at the WTA in a whole different light.

But it’s like a roadside IED. They know it’s there, they just don’t know where or, if it’ll even go off… for now. But, if and when it does.., expect casualties.

It’s entirely your call on how you run your business and at what rate you accept for calls, I am in no position to even hint at what you should or should not accept and, I wouldn’t even presume to tell you. I will gladly offer council as you know, as much as I possibly can.

I do not however want to see someone as passionate and committed (perhaps you should be ;)) to this trade to leave it because of some jumped up monkey in a suit from Brum. Certainly not on a whim but, I know it isn’t a whim as you’ve been p1ssed since they came up with this.

Just don’t jeopardise all the other stuff you’ve built up over this, put yourself in harm’s way or leave the trade on the back of it. There’s brighter things on the horizon.

K.

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Ade the best analogy I could come up with was if you shoot with a blunderbuss ,yes you cause damage but nothing significant .
Whereas if you wait and select your target and then when the prevailing conditions are correct you fire you have more chance of clean kill .
At the moment the prevailing conditions are not 100 {e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} in the right place so there wont be a clean kill and there would be collateral damage which is not worth the sacrifice by those involved .
Wait a while and lets have a chat next week .

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There’s a queue. 😉

And, it isn’t a short one.

You need the club to beat with before you set off.

K.

The gloves are off Steven. 😉

Let’s keep that way shall we?

WTA membership has swelled off the back of Amica and we’ve almost certainly got more members now that any other trade organisation.

First bit, big tick.

OFT Approved COP, second bit, we need to tick that.

Next, promote and market, establish brand and values. Coffers building to accomplish that, even if it is costing UKW & ISE to accomplish that, don’t care. This is a part of what we set out to do.

We don’t need massive public awareness, we need trade awareness first.

Efforts underpinned by the story, what we’ve done on ISE/UKW/Amica and a host of other fronts. Promote local service, better service, better value instead of rip-off insurance, rip-off fixed fees…

There is a strategy. 😉

K.