OK, Roger, agreed. Off the top of my head:

a) We need an organisation - simply having hundreds or even thousands of music lovers petitioning independently will not be good enough.
b) That organisation needs to include all lovers of live music (i.e. not folk-specific so that it cannot be marginalised).
c) We need petitioning, demonstrations, articles published, perhaps a free newssheet to be distributed, interviews on TV and radio.
d) We need money for that - we need therefore a paying membership of that organisation.

All (most?) of the above is already in the hands of the Musicians Union. So we need to get behind their efforts and support them.

Further thoughts?