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Thread #55433 Message #900537
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
28-Feb-03 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: PEL : MPs' replies to your e-mails
Subject: RE: PEL : MPs' replies to your e-mails
Shambles, you omitted the evident fact that people playing music in places which do not have, or seek to have, licences to sell alcohol are caught by the law, for example in coffee bars or coffee houses, or teashops.
A barbershop chorus which tried to sing in a barbershop would be illegal. While a whistling postman on his round might be ok, a singing postman in a post office would be in trouble, or at least the post office manager would be. I know those aren't things that happen too often, but a law that means they are illegal is daft.
Howells saying he's never heard of the EFDSS is pretty rich, from a Minister of Culture; all right he's Welsh, but I think that an English Minister of Culture who said he'd never heard of this Eisteddfodd thing would be pretty widely ridiculed. Well of course, he is pretty widely ridiculed.
But the news in there that the EFDSS will now be included in this advisory committee is very welcome. I just hope that they don't just concentrate on the Morris Dance and so forth end of it, and ignore the other sorts of sessions.