Out of interest, and this is a general question to all our readers, what is the most important reason to join any organisation? Is it the benefits you get, the aim of the organisation, what makes joining the most beneficial?
Just curious to see what you all think?
customer recognition is the most important thing to me.
There are alot of people who like myself are sitting on the fence. People who are behind you in theory but need that little push to embrace it totally.
I think the only way you will get the majority on board is through licensing.
Unlike scotland where councils supply the license, it would be better if the councils endorsed the license but were not involved in the running of it.
The apwc and the fed should lobby the government to back licensing but for them to stay out of running it because they will just use it as another tax.
If the feds ran and policed these licenses themselves, i think less people would have a moral objection to licensing and the money generated could be used to market the advantages of having a licensed wc to the general public.
The only way the feds would have the cash to run national advertising would be to have control of a licensing budget.
I wish the apwc well but trying to appeal to the better side of us wc is the wrong way to go. It is just another ongoing cost to us.
There is a part of me that is behind this in theory, but the realist tells me that if we go the way of scotland it will be a never ending cycle of higher charges with fewer benefits.
Remember, no-one votes for higher taxes??
