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Thread #51734   Message #811207
Posted By: The Shambles
25-Oct-02 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: PEL: Licensing Reform?
Subject: RE: Licensing Reform?
The devil, they say is in the detail.

Many of our MP's will take a brief look at these proposals (or at least the 'spin') and may honestly think that they are a sensible solution.

In truth, generally there is some merit in a simpler system. Not clogging up the Courts with routine applications, is sensible, but that is about as far as the positive aspects go.

Our only hope is our MPs. And that we can inform them, keep them informed of the particular problems that are presented in the detail.
And that their political futures (in the form of votes) may depend on how they treat this issue.

Many who will have signed the EDM will not necesarily be aware of the problems in the detail, that we know only too well. We must make them work for us.

Ask them to find out the detailed answers to your questions. That way they will find out exactly how poor this Bill really is and we may then be on the way to ammendments to the proposals that may improve them.

There will be places on the various committees that will have input at these stages of the Bill. See if you can get your MP to sit on these. We just have to try to make the system work.