That said, and interestingly, the ICAEW no longer refers to the fact that it has a strategic reserve as a consequence of this issue. It does, however, have a strategy, which it lists under five separate headings, which are as follows:
Strengthen trust In ICAEW Chartered Accountants and the wider profession
Well, they’vew kicked Spud out which is going to increase that trust, no?
For an organisation that he “chose” to leave, it seems to be featuring an inordinate amount in his thoughts.
A valuable insight, BiW. People who continually & volubly dis something are often revealing it’s something they want but can’t have. Mostly the target of the conversation is themselves.
He still needs to “dip his wick” apparently.
One suspects a very short wick in a very long lamp.
I do get an impression from Spud, because his work experience has been limited to a profession that benefits from regulatory capture – people have to pay taxes, so need accountants, so accountants have their clientele by the short & curlies – he doesn’t really understand that to grift, his targets have to want to buy what he’s selling. And generally he’s trying to sell what few people want to buy. With his blog, it’s fairly obviously he’s targeting people don’t have any money. With his commenterait, between the lot of them, I doubt if they could scrape up the price of a bus ticket. They’re all people like him.
Contrast with Tim. I suspect what he’s doing here must be in some way remunerative or he wouldn’t keep doing it. Maybe it’s from the panel on the right hand side or in other ways. But the commentariat obviously aren’t a bunch of penniless liggers with nothing but their sense of entitlement & grievances. They could afford to buy what he’s selling.
He gets paid by hte charities to tell his ideas to his blog ausdience – and Twitter etc.
Doesn’t look like value for money to me
On the other hand UK government seems to have been buying it by the basketful for the past few years. Just not from him.