False self employment in the construction industry

Earlier this year, HMRC issued a consultation document on this topic.  The condoc and an earlier academic report can be found here.  The CIOT has issued its comments in response, and has succeeded in representing the views of many, save for what still seems to be the most obvious and vital of factors. 

This being the very nature of the construction industry in the UK, and whether the nature of the beast renders it a futile, or counterproductive, exercise when it comes to some of the niceties of imposing change ?  On the one hand, it may well, indeed, be acceptable to aspire to a fair and even handed application of the law, be in tax or employment etc., But, on the other hand, when the reality is that only so much can be sensibly achieved, might it not be better to aspire to that much, and that much only, albeit that it might, in theory, still leave much in place which many consider to be imperfect or undesirable ? 

This is certainly not a new observation and similar was said by Stephen Timms MP last year, when in a rare moment of candour by one of our more credible politicians, he largely acknowledged that the construction sector was unique, and should be treated as such. 

Given the size, nature and importance of the construction sector, it seems wholly reasonable to enter into some manner of debate over what the sector means to the wider economy, its nature, how and to what extent it should be governed and controlled,  to what ends and for whose benefit ?  Is this not, after all, what has purportedly happened with the banks ?