I also think that the Morris exemption was less of a consession drawn from the Govenment - but a last minute and reluctant acceptance that providing advanced licensing permission for every event i.e. for every piece of ground that ever needed to be danced on - was going to prove to be impossible in practice.

The Bill did just not fit these activities and the arguments presented by Mark Gibbens, EFDSS and Co, I think had finally persuaded the DCMS Civil Servants of this.

I greatly fear that the Government got very much the best out of this particular piece of horse trading. It was a bit like someone giving you a good price for horse that you were only going to have to put down anyway...........