licence to thrill?

[woodgnome]

just in case anyone thought the forces of repression had been cowed into submission: .

maybe it would be better in the long run if it did go to the european courts...

[steve56]

that insp taggart gets evreywhere

[rjg]

No, Its the same bunch of religious nuts which have given Glasgow the most backward and repressive licencing laws in the UK.

Taggart woulnae ave stood for it.

[Paul Tavener]

As you say Woodgnome lets hope they do take them to the European courts. It's high time some of these intolerent types were put in their place.

[jobbydealer]

The best part about the Misc Provisions Act which governs the allocation of sex shops is the allocation. From Memory I think it's 12(3c) which says that a local council may allocate any number of licenses that it sees fit for its area. THEN! at the bottom of the page in a 6 point font a footnote explains that ZERO is a number and may be allocated.

So, when you ring the council and ask them if they have an allocation they reply yes. You send in your money. They send back only half and tell you that the allocation was Zero.

Nice work if you can get it.

[jj]

As any good mathematician will tell you, zero is NOT a number.
But it does represent the collective IQ of all the councillors in the UK, curiously enough.

[Deuce Bigolo]

Very much like our freedom of information act in Australia

The free relates to the asking not the recovery of the information
yet we pay their wages

The council example sounds very much like gaining money under false pretences.I bet if I were running a business like that the old bill would be on my door step quicksmart

All tiers of government are a law until themselves

cheers
B....OZ