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It isn't the job of Governments to police the quality of live entertainment - that should be the job of critics and the punters job to inform themselves before they go... Making the local Government into artistic critics of comedy is a dangerous centralisation of political power. So the Government is now caught between two stools - it cannot get further legislation against flyering onto the statute books because of the bad publicity surrounding the original stealth legislation and how it's been instituted on the sly - and also having criminalised normal promoting activities it has created an arena in which everything is run by the kind of people who dont care about their reputation and will always find a way round any rules. This is what happens when you abolish free markets and free speech. I wouldn't personally want to go to any night run by the gentleman to whom you allude but I will defend to the death the right of anyone to run a night badly.