So all of you who signed now want the UK Tax Payer to subsidise your hobby.
When the GRO produces any certificate it takes the same amount of time. Last year they lost staff, and do you not think that reducing the costs for a 'certified certificate' would just result in more job losses in an area of already high unemployment.
The GRO is there to act as the main repository for the English & Welsh BMDs. It is not there just to assist us in our hobby. At present they are self financing, so a reduction in prodoucing 'hobby' certificates would mean that the poor old British Tax payer would be hit again.
I have several hobbies, from Family History to Reading and listening to music. I certainly do not expect anyone else to subsidise my hobby. But if anyone would like to subsidise my reading hobby by partly paying for my books I would be more than happy.
