Curryman
Well-known member
After watching the 10.00 o'clock news last night on BBC and its report from Hull regarding the sale of under the counter illegal cigarettes and the figures that came out regarding the practice, is it not time the Government made it a priority to stop this sort of trade, which besides being unlawful deprives the treasury of more money than the drugs trade, which in itself is horrendous.
Row after row of shops were selling these cigarettes, and hiding them in various parts. One such shop was shown with the ground beneath it dug out, and props plus a car jack holding the floor up. Around £20,000 of illegal cigarettes were found stored. The Camera team were assaulted and no action taken. The owner of the shop, a vile individual, who already had a previous conviction for the same offence could see nothing wrong in what he was doing, and within half an hour of being cleaned out of the contraband was still selling the same items, under the counter, again.
There have been a number of cases of the same thing happening in Bradford and little being done about it, probably due to lack of staffing and, if I dare say it, by Asians & It makes me wonder how many of them are also claiming benefits, as they will not be on the books as paying much tax.
Surely it would be a way of filling the black hole, left by the Tories, instead of U turning after every despised action taken has to be amended.
Row after row of shops were selling these cigarettes, and hiding them in various parts. One such shop was shown with the ground beneath it dug out, and props plus a car jack holding the floor up. Around £20,000 of illegal cigarettes were found stored. The Camera team were assaulted and no action taken. The owner of the shop, a vile individual, who already had a previous conviction for the same offence could see nothing wrong in what he was doing, and within half an hour of being cleaned out of the contraband was still selling the same items, under the counter, again.
There have been a number of cases of the same thing happening in Bradford and little being done about it, probably due to lack of staffing and, if I dare say it, by Asians & It makes me wonder how many of them are also claiming benefits, as they will not be on the books as paying much tax.
Surely it would be a way of filling the black hole, left by the Tories, instead of U turning after every despised action taken has to be amended.