On 05/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Personally I would prefer to see a few licence dodgers get away with it > > rather than have to endure any more of this burdensome regulation that > > increasingly destroys what we most value about the canals. > > So would I, if it were only 'a few licence dodgers' - but last year it was > not far short of ten per cent of all the boats on BW water.
I'm making a U-turn on this issue. I have to confess that I wouldn't have made my last posting if I'd have realised what this figure for license dodgers was! I had simply no idea at all it was THAT high! I now read Debbie's posting in a completely new light. Is someone from the licensing department at BW actually telling us NOT to report boats with out-of-date licences because it actually HAMPERS the fight against licence dodgers? Because - actually - they know who the license dodgers are? Well if you know who they are Debbie, why are there so many? This Alice in Wonderland stuff. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
