Personally, I think this smacks of over-drafting from your friendly cabinet-office barristers. The same firm that brought you the Licencing Act (which threatened to make Morris-Dancing illegal) and the Sexual Offences Act (which promised incarceration for fourteen year olds found snogging in the back row). The real problem is that UK bills are now drafted to cover every eventuality, be totally waterproof and utterly unchallengeable. Sadly life doesn't fit easily with this approach. Perhaps what we need is a law requiring the drafters to get out more. They could possibly take DCMS and OFSTED with them. How about an office outing to Whitby as a start? Have to stop rambling and go now as am late for a meeting of the Paedophile Terrorist Association Money-Laundering Sub-Committee ....
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