Graham Marsden
Editor Emeritus
This is a dedicated thread for discussing article: Opinion Piece - Either or Neither?
The licence is an unfair tax. It provides us with no representation whatsoever. At present the Angling Trust's main competition is the EA fishery department. While people are taxed to fish they will never pay a similar amount of money to a single governing body....
On a personal note, I can see we'll have to drag you kicking and screaming into the AT after all. Crikey the other week we were saving you £4 and then you wanted a further £6 discount. Would you like me to stump up the £20 for you, is that it? :wh
The licence is an unfair tax. It provides us with no representation whatsoever. At present the Angling Trust's main competition is the EA fishery department. While people are taxed to fish they will never pay a similar amount of money to a single governing body....
Depends Jeff, what you mean by "not much else"?
Come on! The E.A do naff all for us,
it's just another tax that we the anglers have to pay and have accepted for donkey's years!
Do they prosecute polluters? Do they catch and prosecute poachers? What do they do with my money???
At the moment the licence revenue gets swallowed up into the gargantuan pot of the E.A. and only a pittance of it goes back into angling.
James, have you got a vested interest in the E.A?.