Just look at our Scottish friends, I think their getting a raw deal at the moment, the cost of the license is far to much for a single area, a separate license for each area is pathetic, does the local plumber have to have a license Just to work in an area? I doubt it and then if the windy employ's staff then each member of staff has to have a license for each of those area's also.
I know Doug has been working hard with all the authorities and I don't know how far he's gotten with them but I don't see any members shouting they are getting value for money.
I'll happily buy a license if its policed properly but somehow I can't see that appointed council official leaving his/her nice warm cozy office and leaving his/her cup of slim fast hot chocolate When its freezing cold or snowing outside, they'll probably think that no one in their right mind would be fool enough to work in such weather? Well they may be right in thinking that for the beer brigade or dole dodger but for the honest guy How wrong they will be?.
As usual they will want everyone else to do their Job for them, you'll have to phone them up on their special window cleaner
grass hot line to tell them that Joe Blogs is on the dole because you see him going to the pub every day.... Because any honest hard working guy can't afford to do that.
Knowing our local council the phone call will be one of those £1.50 a minute phone lines :
with press 1 for this 2 for that with Gary Jules singing Mad World as the back ground music, you'll eventually get through and they put you on hold for another 30 minutes while he/she sits there seeing how many screwed up papers they can throw through the waste paper hoop attached to their bin and every so often typing in numbers onto their calculator to see how much extra they have Just screwed out of you for that £1.50 a minute phone call.
So until they get it right, I'll stick with the no vote.