When defending additional entertainment licensing, what those who are employed to enforce the legislation are in effect saying is that:

The playing of any type of live music in a pub, club, school etc, which must have aleady been made safe for the public by Planning, Environmental and Health and Safety legislation - will present an additional concern to the public's interest that only the advance requirement of additional entertainment is able to provide.

None of the submissions that I have read, which make all sorts of scaremongering claims about the dire consequenses which will result if the Govt's proposals be come law, actually state what this concern is or what is defective in the raft of existing legislation, which is considered to be sufficient where no form of live music takes place or where this live music (or TV sport) is already exempted from the requirement for additional entertainment licensing....

Until the proposals's opponents provide this - we can safely dismiss all of their claims as the self-interested calls of turkeys who are in no hurry to be eaten and who, understandably, do not want to be seen to be voting for an early Christmas.