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[Nickbat]

The US government is to start charging UK travellers $14 (£9) to apply for permission to enter the country.

The compulsory Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (Esta) is free at present, but from 9 September visitors to the US will have to pay for it.

OK, that makes life a bit more expensive if your taking a family holiday to the US, but what is this fee actually going to be used for?

The fee has been introduced to fund a programme which aims to promote tourism in the US and attract foreign spending.

So they're going to charge each US-bound traveller so they can pay someone to tell people to become US-bound travellers.

Attention: logic failure. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10899968

[Varche]

Well spotted.

Marketing speak. We are all just supposed to accept this and sadly most people do as it has come from an official source so must be right and more importantly good for us

[Dishevelled Den]

Well, logic hath strange bedfellows in the United States.


So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.


http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html

[Nickbat]

Well, logic hath strange bedfellows in the United States.


So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.


http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html

Yes, it's absolutely barmy, Zulu.

But why is it that I can envisage a similar situation here? 

[Dishevelled Den]

Well, logic hath strange bedfellows in the United States.


So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.


http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html

Yes, it's absolutely barmy, Zulu.

But why is it that I can envisage a similar situation here? 

In general terms the same logic prevails here.


The BBC received £205,000 from the government's counter-terrorism budget to produce a special edition of Woman's Hour, it has emerged.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/news/a257072/bbc-womans-hour-given-terrorism-grant.html

[Nickbat]

In general terms the same logic prevails here.


The BBC received £205,000 from the government's counter-terrorism budget to produce a special edition of Woman's Hour, it has emerged.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/news/a257072/bbc-womans-hour-given-terrorism-grant.html

There's a joke to be had in that, Zulu, but in deference to the lady members on here, my lips shall remain sealed.

Joking apart, isn't it amazing how civil servants spend OUR money.