Big Brother controls busking! Expletive deleted Big Brother! Assholes with elephantine car stereos can assault our ears with impunity at every street corner, bank machine, and driveway, but we have to pay to play?

"Of all the trades...[busking]is the best"

Oh yeah, and polluting is free, not to mention encouraged by the government. Seems to me there's an element of insanity here, when they won't keep wheeled vehicles off the sidewalks but send buskers packing.

Expletive deleted! But not surprised...Mooh.