Originally from: Val Collinson
                        
What the BCMS, and the authority behind it , do not seem to understand is that in order for it to produce a database which is not totally meaningless, they need our co-operation. Treating farmers like naughty school children and punishing them for disobeying the 'letter of the law ' is quite obviously not going to achieve this. They can never prevent falsification of documents, changing of eartags, etc, but I cannot see any reason why anyone should bother to do this, other than as a direct result of the unreasonableness of BCMS. Until recently, there was a six month period of grace for passport applications. What was so wrong with this? I am sure that the quality of the data they received at this time was better than that which they are now receiving. How many people would have Mark's, moral courage and integrity over this? By far the easiest option would be a less honest solution!

Val C

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