More details of the problem Urgent help UK folkies etc.

Given the problems presented for our session in the past year, I feel that the remarks, light-hearted I accept, are very ill advised for the Culture Minister to make.

Essential freedoms being curtailed by local authorities are not matters for Ministers to joke about. If Mr Howells does not understand this yet, he certainly needs to be reminded of this until his department actually provide a firm date for reform or issue firm instructions to local authorities as to how they deal with sessions and folk clubs, until the law can be changed.