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Originally Posted by Thomas Banacek
Umm, fast food outlets are required to have a licence, and so pay a licence fee already.
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Maybe they should pay more then.
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Originally Posted by Thomas Banacek
I fail to see the problem here. It seems like some folk are using it as a convenient excuse to have a whinge about the council. Change the record folks, the council is there to look after the wider interests of Aberdeen, not the narrow interests of certain individuals or establishments.
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Maybe they can serve the wider interest by actually thinking about problems and identifying the "good" from the "bad" before making blanket bans.
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Originally Posted by Thomas Banacek
If someone is seriously suggesting that flyers are the only way to ensure a crowd at gigs or punters in a club, then perhaps the people running those establishments need to take a long hard look at themselves.
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No one is suggesting that, I don't think flyering for gigs is very effective although it works better for clubs. I'm obviously talking about clubs that put on "name" DJ's, not the cattle markets, flyering is the lifeblood of cattle markets.
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Originally Posted by Thomas Banacek
Viable establishments which can offer decent quality entertainment should have nothing to fear.
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But why should they have their rights reduced when it's the places that are not offering decent (any) quality entertainment that produce the vast majority of discarded flyers. (Apart from the fact that the litter problem lies more with discarded fast food wrappers etc).
Anyway, if it was me making the decisions I'd try it my way first and see what the effects were and if there was still a perceived flyer problem after a couple of years, go for the total ban. You never know, it may make those pubs/clubs that aren't viable without mass flyering take a long hard look at themselves without infringing on the rights of people who are trying to offer entertainment rather than just a place to get bladdered cheap.
In saying all that though, maybe they've already investigated the legalities of restricting a ban to cheap booze advertising and found they can't so this is their second best option to target these places. Maybe their using the litter excuse as a smokescreen so the brewers/licensee's don't see what they're really up to and mount a legal challenge. Maybe that's crediting the council with too much intelligence and cunning.
Oh, and they're spending my money running this city so I'll reserve the right to piss and moan about them until they stop lightening my pocket every month.