Amateur stage hit by jobsworth cancer

If you ever wondered what a third rate, tin-pot beau racy we have become then read John Slim's feature about children on the stage on http://www.behindthearras.com/amfeat.html.
We talk with an amused air about the nanny state but the jobsoworths and those who delight in interfering in every facet of normal activity have grown like a cancer to the point where they stifle life itself. Britain makes Kafka look like Last of the Summer Wine.
These lifeless, soulless individuals, why else would they want to share ours, are all aided by a Government whose ambition is to have a form filled in and a record kept for each breath you take with no doubt a league table, a tax and a private company monitoring it all.
We already have 800 various unelected bodies who can demand entry to your home without a warrant and now almost 700 bodies can listen to your telephone conversations and read your texts and emails which will all be stored, at a cost to us, by Government decree. No court orders, permission from a judge or anything that even hints at the rights of an individual, just the nod from a senior council official will do.
One day people might just wake up long enough from worshipping celebrity to realise we no longer have a country with any rights, justice or freedoms.
Meanwhile back to John Slim. Either we have the highest concentration of child sex offenders in the world - which is a sort of tribute to Government in itself - or we have the worst, most oppressive and least effective bureaucracy n the universe.
Whatever the future for any youngsters learning stagecraft in amateur productions is bleak while the chances of seeing the likes of Annie, Oliver and The Sound of Music as amateur productions are almost nil. The amateur stage is yet another great British tradition the bureaucratic meddlers would like to kill off.
The Government wants to cut its budget. So here is an idea. It could start by sacking, or even shooting, anyone with a clipboard or a form to fill in.