Friday, December 15, 2006

If you're reading this, Mr Blair...

This from Dominic Cronin on the UK.music.folk newsgroup

Dear all,

I mentioned a couple of days ago down in the bowels of some licensing thread or other that I had taken advantage of the new e-petition feature on the Prime Minister's web site, and created a petition with the following wording:

Main text: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recognise that music and dance should not be restricted by burdensome licensing regulations.

Details: The recently introduced changes in licensing law have produced an environment where music and dance, activities which should be valued and promoted in a civilised society, are instead damaged by inappropriate regulation. We call on the Prime Minister to recognise this situation and take steps to correct it.

I would like to invite you all to join me in this petition. The cynic in me says it won't do any good, but there's still a part of me that says, what the heck, give it a go anyway. It can't hurt.

Obviously, the more support this gets the better, so please publicise it anywhere where that might do some good.

The petition is to be found at
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/licensing/

Thank you.

Dominic Cronin


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