points by addandsubtract 3 days ago | 0 comments
Pubs are regulated by a limited amount of alcohol licenses, which goes back centuries. Do you really want there to be licenses for other industries as well?
[–] gambiting 3 days ago
That's not what I said nor implied.
It's not about licences - councils can absolutely decide if a business can or can not operate in any area already, regardless of licence requirements.
Yes. I'm surprised that business licenses aren't already a thing.
I expect a competent government to issue licenses to barbers based off them proving hygiene standards, trained staff with college diplomas in hair-dressing, number of employees, and an extremely limited number of these to be issued based off local need calculated from population by census.
I expect local government to issue similar licenses for all other industries, who should prove their competency, adherence to standards, jobs created, and cater to local needs.