"Reform" does not necessarily have to mean creating a god-awful mess. You should hear Chris Hepher, head of licensing law at Kidd Rapinet on some of the messes in the alcohol parts. Or Stuart Neame of Shepherd Neame. And of course the police really laid into it a few weeks back saying it seriously undermined their ability to deal with problem drinking.

You, RichardP are the only person I have ever heard prepared to defend any (well, hardly any) of the music licensing provisions, apart from the mendacious Howells (who said in Parliament that three folk singers in a pub was his idea of hell), his successor(s) and his slippery so called civil so-called servants.

May I ask what your day job is and what if any your connection with the government or the executive?