Putting any bureaucrat in charge of anything will turn everything into a bureaucratic clown show.
We’ve had reports from all over the country showing that licensing officers can’t apply any of the regulations consistently, are making up regulations as they go along and are misinterpreting the rest and have assumed that DEFRA has authorised them to withhold licenses from well run businesses.
When local authorities are pulled up, they blame DEFRA's regulations for their mistakes and DEFRA are claiming that it's not their responsibility to get involved with individual local authorities.
The Canine and Feline Sector Group are refusing to talk to us or allow representatives of our sector into their club - even though we represent hundreds of businesses in every part of the country, we just don't have the right credentials or financial pull to hang out with or achieve equal footing with the multi-million pound charity lobby classes.
