Throw your fishing lines overboard.

[BlueSkyNick]

If you've got a handline or even a rod and reel on board, either for fun or for catching emergency food supplies, you had better hide it before Gordon Brown finds out.

I hear on the news today that sea anglers may be charged for a fishing license. Don't ask where the collected funds will be spent - nobody has thought of that bit yet.

Whose heads do we have to bang together to stop this crazy world? Won't be too much longer before we get taxed on the air that we breathe.

<hr width=100% size=1>It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

 

[alanporter]

Seems like you guys over there are way behind in the licensing and laws business. On this side of the pond we have had salt water fishing licenses since Adam was a boy. We have alcohol limits for boat operators, same as car drivers, and lots of other things that anxious forumites are wondering if they are going to be inflicted on GB boaters. Be thankful you have had it so good for so long.

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[Magic_Sailor]

George Harrison

Foresaw that back in '67 - see Revolver "Taxman" - only the names have changed but the song remains the same.

Magic

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[Captain_Chaos]

This is the nanny state gone mad. OK so there is licensing in the US and elsewhere, but what is the cost / benefit from the imposition of yet more bureaucracy?

The cash raised will be used to build an oppulent headquarters somewhere in Wales or Scotland to hold the army of civil servants that will be needed to produce glossy brochures telling how the cash raised will be used for fishing conservation. (but dont ask about the enormous Spanish factory ships that scoop up everything in their path). More civil servants will be needed to collect and check licences, monitor government targets for prosecutions and confiscations of unlicensed equipment.

Of course, the £22 fee will be totally inadequate and there will then be a round of "public consultation" to justify further price increases...in the meantime Tony Bliar will continue to preach how under his spiritual leadership, unemployment is down blah blah blah.






<hr width=100% size=1>74.56% of all statistics are made up.

 

[Bergman]

Remember

GB has only recently announce the intention to get rid of 80,000 civil service POSTS.

Hes got to find something for the people in those posts to do and this is one of the things.

Undoubtedly lots more similar job creation schemes to come - all of which we will have to finance.

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[StugeronSteve]

>in the meantime Tony Bliar will continue to preach how under his spiritual leadership, unemployment is down blah blah blah.<

Just creating new jobs to replace some of those nasty orrible manufacturing ones that we seem to have lost somewhere along the way.



<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[bedouin]

Now if I thought that this was the first step to eradicating the problem of poorly marked pots, and that the revenue would be spent policing our coasts and removing said dangerous pots then I might even support the idea (especially as I don't fish).

However I suspect that it will be another honesty tax, with no enforcement so only honest boaters will pay.

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[Rowana]

I suppose we will have to wait until the next general election before we can get rid of Tony B Liar and his cronies. But who to put in their place? Her Majesty's official opposition don't exactly fill me with optomism. How about Charles Kenedy? Or is the UKIP the way to go? We have Scottish Nationalists up here as well, but some of the muppets in that lot . . . . .

Signed
Confused of Aberdeen


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