Dorothy wrote: > > It is not everyone's business. It is between BW and the boat owner. Perhaps > you are right, there may be no point in having a visible licence. If BW > staff can check with their system via a hand-held device whether a boat is > licenced or not, then paper licences may be pointless.
Unfortunately, I have it on good authority that the super hand-held devices that BW guys have been issued with don't work very well. They are reputed to have insufficient battery capacity to last any length of time in the field and also the screen is near unreadable in sunshine. I'm told that the devices are not popular with the enforcement staff. As the good Cap'n > Beeky says, should he display his tv licence in the front window? > > One of my pet bugbears is people sticking their noses into things that don't > concern them, and sounding off without knowing the full facts of a > situation. That can create a lot of unnecessary tension and hostility. In my opinion the law (and civilisation as such) is not enforced so much by authority as by peer pressure and peer standards. If everybody ignores wrong-doing and says that 'It's not my problem, why should I be concerned?' then you tend towards a breakdown of society (perhaps like that that seems to be happening here at the moment). Laws are enforced with the co-operation and consent of the majority..........otherwise you have dictatorship. Roger
