BUT the stupidest law of all (and I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it yet) is SUREly the one requiring a pub to have licence before allowing singing! Especially since no licence is required for enormous TV screens or amplified canned "music"!


AND they don't need a licemce when the TV viewers strat to sing or chant, and fire limits for drunken football fans are considerably higher because they aren't singing are they? Tell me the poitician that dares to support a bill to affect just about anything on football and I'll show you an ex-politician.

Now someone tell me the story of Fire Island on or attached to Long Islan NY. Isn't the local sport inventing the most ridiculaous laws and tourist go there just for the fun of being fined?