Perhaps it should be made clearer that abolishing the "two in the bar" rule is the abolition of an exemption. Once (if ever) the exemption is gone, then until the law relating to PELs is re-stated a PEL will be needed for even one or two public entertainers. Better half a loaf than no bread.

What would be fairly easy would be a new Statutory Instrument to add some more thoughtful exemption, but drafting it is going to be tricky. I live next door to a pub and across the road from another and if I got a chance to shut down their karaoke, one man bands (with PA rig) discos (outside in summer from noon till midnight on a Sunday), juke boxes, and outside barbecues, not to mention them serving leery kids who, when I pass, even though I have two large dogs with me, ask at a shout "Hey, want to by some fucking pills grandpa?", would I not do so?

A specific (and accurate, no euro-waffle about "proportional" here please, we're British) exemption for fairly peaceful middle class activity (or middle class type even when practised by the upper or lower classes) that covers both inside and outside activities is not easy to explain much less draw in detail. But it is important that it be clear if it is to be presented as preferable to any lack of clarity in the existing law as redoubled by any rational argument about "public entertainment provided by the Licensee" or Human Rights.

By the way what happened to the day of action?