MR T wrote:
There are people here who think they know everything.... unfortunately they don't..... expect the unexpected
I agree.
What we have to consider here is why base licensing was brought in.
It was a political move so that criminal elements could be excluded. It is designed to dig out people the establishment doesn't like, but they don't have enough evidence to take the matter before the Justiciary.
However, it is a thick sword. It can easily be used to breach our Human Rights and, because it is licensing and not criminal Law, is virtually unchallengeable by all except those who have wads of cash to take the fight to the courts, a prohibitively expensive process for most of us.
So, the answer probably is that the fixed penalty will not prevent you getting a base licence, unless and until the cops and the council decide that your face doesn't fit whereupon the FP will be used as an excuse to do you down.
This truly is fascism boys. And the trade did nothing to argue against it, or at least ensure that safeguards were built in.
The old maxim applies here.
We're divided. They rule.
