What's this country coming too? I remember when a bank manager made the decision to lend rather than a computer, and when a policeman could give you a clip around the ear an threaten to tell your Dad! Now we have rules on rules, made by idiots who know little of what they legislate against!
Every couple of years I have Special Branch and a customs man come around and ask if anything has changed at my strip (ie, new aircraft/owners ect). They seem quite reasonable blokes and surely intelligent enough to be able to assess what threat my little outfit represents. Surely this has to be good enough? Anything more would be insulting their intelligence .... just as a bank manager must now feel rather maginalised by the computer that tells him/her who he can lend too!
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