well i certainly don't think we're over reacting.

this is a very serious threat to our human rights & freedom of expression.

you must be very naiive to think Howells is telling the truth, when the only consistencies in any of his utterances are the typical politician responses of ducking & diving questions & blackening the names of any opposition.

he's already stated that the MU & Hamish Birchall [jazz drummer & lawyer] are deliberately promulgating misinformation, when in fact they are arguing that the bill's proposals imply that live music [& sundry other activities] performed 'in any place' will require licensing.

Howells has contradicted himself in interviews on the radio & also in the press.

the british government has also made sure that our population are kept well in the dark about the implications & consequences of this issue, hence the lack of publicity about it in national news broadcasts & the popular press.

For example, there was a demonstration in London yesterday, but there's been no mention of it in the news at all.

need i go on?

or will i be accused of further 'over reaction?