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The one thing in my view which needs sorting out are the ridiculous food and drink prices of the mobile purveyors. A captive audience approach matching motorway service stations. Can the Register not have any control over this, presumably not. I guess the individual show ground gives out licences. If there was an opportunity it would not take much for the Register to hire a mobile unit and selling at reasonable prices make a good profit out of the captive audience.

Of course some would say if you do not like the prices do not buy. This in my view is wrong. There is nothing fair or reasonable about this. The apparent lack of complaint shown, by me also, just shows how weak and like sheep we all are.I heard background complaint but nobody did anything.

It puts me in mind of my father, a blunt Yorkshireman who had to tell it like it was and felt justified in publically putting right wrongs as he percieved them. We went to the Yorkshire show in the seventies and he bought a pint of beer from such a van. The price I think was 30p. The usual price in a pub 22p. He paid 22p and refused to give more. A scene ensued and a young constable appeared. The seller accused dad of theft. Dad accused the seller of theft. With an audiance supporting dad the constable was out of his depth. The seller then for some reason said that my mother looked like a sour witch, and a scuffle??followed.Nothing much developed after that and everybody including the constable drifted away, The customers disappeard and the van closed early. Later on various people clapped dad on the shoulder and said if more people had your attitude we would not be ripped off in this way. Actually dad was a generally mild mannered man until he saw something he thought very wrong.

To sum up the situation is wrong but I expect nothing can be done about it. Or can it?
David

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