Leave busker alone (From York Press)

Geoff,
What you fail to grasp is this....many years ago all the dossers, drop outs, beggars etc used to sit on the pavement playing a penny whistle, the cops couldnt move them as they said they were "busking!"
So, to get round this "busking" scenario, the cops/council/Safer York decided to introduce a "busking badge" scheme.
If you were half decent you were issued a badge, no badge was issued to any of the dossers etc as they couldnt string a tune together!
The scheme was highly succesful as people only gave to legitamate "buskers" who had a badge on display. This then got rid of the dossers with penny whistles as nobody gave them any cash.
The proper buskers (who had complained about the dossers) loved it, signed up for it and agreed to abide by its rules and regulations.
So why should one person go against the rules and regulations that he knew were in place and knew this when he signed up for the scheme?
Believe me, you are only hearing one side of a story in this case!

Yes we know all that, what has it got to do with the bloke in this story seeing as he's obviously not a "dosser"?

Buzz Light-year wrote:
Yes we know all that, what has it got to do with the bloke in this story seeing as he's obviously not a "dosser"?

He is a busker, he applied for a busking badge, got it, read the rules and regulations, accepted them, he should abide by them!
If somebody is busking in the city without a badge they are asked to stop and leave, this gives buskers with a badge a "pitch" to perform rather than a "rogue" busker just turning up and performing.
If you have 5 mins to spare, have a trawl through Bradford and Harrogate Council websites, see how much a daily street trading consent costs there!

Talking about websites by Councils, what do you make of this ?

Here's the latest from our Council, who have been caught out trying to conceal key information:-

The Annual Monitoring Report for 2011/12 has just put on CYC's website (almost three months late, being due in December 2012), but, it has been massively scaled back and is missing key information:-

1. No planning permissions for housing given.
2. No unimplemented planning permissions given.
3. No housing trajectory for predicted completions given.

Why is this information missing ?

The truth is, these missing numbers give the game away ? The numbers are so bad, that they daren't publish them, and they won't do the trajectory because if done honestly, it will show that they can't hit the targets.

Those responsible for this deficient and unacceptable report better have some answers, or, they will be down the road with the rest of the culprits who are lying and cheating on the scale of the housing problem the Council has created.

Note to Jonny Walker, the busker from Leeds: Don't think about moving to York, mate, because the Council have almost stopped building of new houses, and the waiting list is at record levels , nearing 5,000 !