Monday, 20 May 2013

Anti - Smokers! Don't read this ... it's bad for your health!

ASH and their acolytes believe that they are winning. So much so that they started endless insults and harassment directed at smokers.  Some smokers have responded to this online etc but many other smokers haven't. Why not? ... well, they have been responding in an other way and one that is far more satisfying than an online slanging match.

Firstly lets take pubs. Sure ASH etc has got non-smoking pubs and believe that smokers were forced out. Haha, how wrong they are! Smokers were not forced out ... they walked. Not because of the smoking ban but because their 'friend' the landlord and breweries were no such thing at all. They stabbed smokers in the back and so smokers would have nothing to do with them ... or ever will.

It never seems to cross ASH etc where all these smokers went but l think it's time to tell them. There were many a pub that remained the smoker's friend. They now have lock-ins and this means that smoking still goes on in pubs but now ASH etc can't see it! l find this really funny because the anti-smokers who use these pubs during the day are amongst their dreaded second hand smoke and their third hand smoke! They believe they are now safe ... but oh, if they only knew! Hahahaha, nowhere is 'safe' for them because smokers are using these places too!

Same goes for restaurants, cafes, clubs and a host of other locations where they think they are 'safe'. Sorry ASH but you ain't! Smokers go and smoke there too!

Another phenomenon that has taken hold is what we call 'Smoky-Drinkys'. This is people converting rooms or garages or sheds to bars. They then invite all their mates round including non-smokers and have a bar where you can smoke or drink. Again ASH etc don't know of their existence and more importantly their location ... and they never will.

These Smoky Drinkys provide absolutely zero revenue to the UK economy from tobacco and very little revenue to the economy from alcohol too. Why? ... because it's virtually all purchased from the EU! ... no revenue for the UK! I don't know of one person that l'm acquainted with that buys their tobacco from UK retail outlets ... not one! Those that can't get to the EU purchase their tobacco from white van man ... again no revenue for the UK!

Then there are those smokers that are now growing their own tobacco or purchasing tobacco leaves ... sorry, still no revenue for UK.

What's really great about all this is the anti-smokers, anti-alcohol and other control freaks have no way of finding how many there are. That's because these smokers, drinkers etc are totally off their radar. They can't get data or stats on them because they don't know where they are. How great is that!!!

The Belgian tobacco shops certainly are not seeing a drop in business. A friend of mine who owns a chain of tobacco outlets is actually investing in larger premises ... not a sign of falling trade then?

The anti-smoking fascists lost. They can get laws brought in as much as they like but the problem is policing them ... it doesn't work! My own MC club has always been smoking, nothing changed. ASH and their ilk created their own Frankenstein ... they've now got god knows how many smokers that they can't track. They've gone off the grid so it's impossible to have any data on them.

You'll hear from these fake charities that smoking has gone down but the truth is they can't find the smokers. Another truth is smoking is on the up in teens too. lt all makes for an appalling fail for the likes of Dreadful Arnott. Hell, she can't even go to the flicks because the film companies are also embracing smoking!

lt's going to be interesting to see what happens in the future. All these anti-smoking/drinking or whatever righteous fake charities going cap in hand to the government but there's less and less money. ln the meantime smokers are having a great time ... tobacco and alcohol very cheap and they don't get hassled by no-one when they partake in their gatherings.

lf a smoker ever get ill, of course they'll go to the NHS but they'll lie ... ASH and their acolytes taught them that. They'll say they don't smoke but  the second or third hand smoke got them!

Then there's the more wicked amongst us who like to torment the anti-smokers ... especially the anti's who say they can smell tobacco and it stinks. Oh what joy ... there's fun to be had with this sort, 'smell' is their Achilles Heel.. There are fragrances available that have the smell of tobacco ... take a look ... here and here Can you imagine the havoc caused by spreading this fragrance round in various locations? The righteous will die! ... they think they've been exposed to the killer tobacco smoke! Hahaha, of course they might be ... someone may have been smoking there. How would they tell the difference?

Leaving cigarette butts around is another way the wicked smokers get at the righteous. They just leave them anywhere ... hotel rooms, aircraft toilets, offices ... the list is endless. The righteous's own minds will do the rest. The wicked smoker never throws their cigarette butts away .... they keep them in a little plastic bag for future use.

Which reminds me of this story l heard. Someone stayed overnight in a classy non-smoking hotel. ln the morning he went down to reception and complained he couldn't sleep because he could smell tobacco and it caused his eyes to run. He 'found' a little tin foil disposable ashtray containing a few butts hidden behind the TV. He gave the reception hell saying that they had deceived him by saying it was a non-smoking hotel when it clearly wasn't. Outcome of this was he wasn't charged for his stay! (Note- We disagree with this scam tactic but also disagree with the scam 'fines' imposed by hotels for cleaning the rooms and charging £50-200 when 'evidence' of smoking is found. Spraying the likes of Febreeze around is not cleaning the room!)

So all you anti-smokers ... the next time you are in the pub, a hotel room, a ship's cabin or wherever just think about this. Smokers take no notice of no smoking bans and they've probably smoked exactly where you are now. Go on, think about it ... you know you will, you can't help it. Smell the smoke yet? Can you taste the tobacco? Have you touched anything yet? ... too late l'm afraid ... you are contaminated!

Best thing you can do is go home and lock yourself in. Never go out and never never allow anyone to be left in your home alone .... they may be a smoker! You won't succeed of course ... smokers get you in the end!

Have fun ... l know l do!

Oh ... Hi Katy xxx

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Friday, 17 May 2013

When Border Force Run Out of Time.

What does this mean? Well, when you have your goods seized and you put in an Appeal Against Seizure (Notice of Claim), Border Force have just 6 months to instigate Condemnation Proceedings in Magistrates Court. The clock starts running as soon as Border Force NPSU receive your claim. We advise that you send your claim recorded delivery as this is proof they received it.

The 6 months are calculated thus - lf they receive your claim say on the 1st May 2013, then the 6 months will  expire on 1st Nov 2013 or if received on 15th Jan 2013 the 6 months will expire on 15th July 2013 and so forth.
Note ... we recommend strongly that you add a week or so to the expiry date before you act. This prevents any possibility of any ... shall we say 'skullduggery'. We've learnt through experience not to trust Border Force, whatever dept it is.

There's also this nice prog you can use to calculate the expiry date. Just put in the date Border Force NPSU received your appeal and then put in the total 26 weeks to add. Works very well,

What happens when the 6 months has expired? Well, in simple terms .... You've Won!

We are finding that Border Force NPSU are getting themselves into this position more and more. They must be inundated with appeals because they've suspended their e-mail address and l'm told their fax number is little better. Add to that staff cuts and staff being on sick then we can see why they run out of time.

So, keep an eye on the expiry date ... not only does it mean that you've won but it opens up other possibilities. We'll cover those at a later date.


Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Border Force Complaints & Compliments Dept

Seems we have a dreamer in Border Force Complaints Dept ... the e-mail address for sending complaints is now complaints&compliments@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk .... l kid you not!

This is the Border Force Complaints Dept that has more whitewash than B&Q and always backs Border Force to the hilt ... no matter what! So much so that we believe all replies now come from the 'coffee machine' in the dept.

lf you sent a complaint in today we could predict with confidence what their reply would be. Hell, we could send you our prediction immediately and when you eventually got their response (takes 4 weeks) you would be hard pressed to tell the difference ... if at all.




Monday, 13 May 2013

Hull Border Force Deliberately Destroying Evidence?

Back in March 2013 (link here) we posted about some 'clients' of ours receiving unreadable copies of the officers notebooks from the Data Protection Unit in Croydon. We assumed that it was a bad photocopy but unbelievably the Data Protection Unit say that these ARE the originals!!!

What are Hull Border Force trying to hide?

NOT a bad photocopy but the ORIGINAL notebook!



Reply from Data Protection Unit about unreadable Hull UKBF Officers notebooks


Not been well preserved??? ... that's an understatement if there ever was one! Did the officers fall in the River Hull perhaps? Did their sniffer dog pi## on them (the notebooks)?

I'm truly lost for words ... as are the notebooks!

Friday, 10 May 2013

N2D Get a Warning!


We received a warning that someone was setting us up. They said comments had recently been added to some of our posts that were well over a year old. These posts referred to certain Hull UKBF Officers who we named and shamed after they appeared in court. You can read it and the comments here .... and more comments here. albeit with the recently added very offensive, incl what could be construed as personal death threats, comments removed.

The recently added comments not only named the officers concerned and one other officer (who's name is certainly not known to us) but in our opinion were very nasty indeed.

We traced the comments back and lo and behold ... they came from Hull. Now we are not known for being conspiracy theorists here but we do know that we have good reason not to trust UKBF at all. Take this for instance that happened to me personally.

Also in the back of our minds is what happened to George. Then there is the fact that we are constantly monitored by HMRC/UKBF. Fortunately, l am in a far better position than George as my postcode in the UK is NF11AB and l have no ISP. ln my travels, l use wherever l am at the time.

Also a while back we put in 'captcha' for comments to stop the spambots ... and more recently 'comment moderation' as most of our discussions happen over at our forum nowadays. The comments here have dropped dramatically ... in the 6 months the forum has been open there has been something like 800 comments here whereas the forum stands at 7476 comments. There was also the added bonus of not having to worry about our troll.

lt certainly was not our troll that put in the comments about these UKBF officers though ... that was someone else. Anyway we won't have to worry about such things in the future.

Of course it all may be nothing ... just some nutter but given our history with HMRC/UKBA/UKBF we shall remain vigilant and take precautions. It would be stupid not to!

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Monday, 29 April 2013

Goodbye and Good Riddance to UKBA!

Very soon the name UKBA will be confined to the history books. Thank god for that!

What was the UKBA will now become the UK Visas and Immigration AND Immigration Enforcement. Beginning in Mar 2012 the UKBA has finally split up into 3. lt began in Mar 2012 when the border Custom and Immigration entry operations of UKBA was hived off to form Border Force. Now the rest of UKBA has been split into 2. No longer agencies but now commands under Home Office control.

Now all we need is for Border Force to be split into 2 to Customs and Immigration/Passport Control. The Customs section can then amalgamate with hiving off Customs (responsible for UK Inland Excise issues) from HMRC. We could then call them what? ... how about HM Customs & Excise! What is left of HMRC we could call what? ... how about lnland Revenue!

Then we'll be back to square one as it was in 2005. At least in those days you knew who you were speaking to and who was responsible for what ... and more importantly you could contact them!

These past 8 years where all these changes have taken place has been a total disaster. lt isn't finished yet but one can hope we get to the point where Customs are indeed Customs and not a half baked mish mash of Border Force officers either being trained in Customs  ... or Immigration .... or both.

Perhaps then we could also have a Customs Complaints Dept that isn't staffed by 'coffee machines' ? The current Border Force Complaints Dept is a complete travesty and doesn't hold a candle to HMRC'S Complaint Dept. HMRC's Complaints Dept is staffed by real people, with contact names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Border Force Complaints Dept is still inanimate objects spewing out the same responses regardless of what complaint you have from Ivory Towers!

Thursday, 18 April 2013

Goodnight N2D!

Those of you that have been with us for a while will know that we don't like Doncaster Robin Hood Airport (aka Sheriff of Nottingham Airport by N2D). We always found it to be a cold and unfriendly airport. For some reason l felt different about it as we parked up in the airport car park. l commented such to Zaphod.

Upon entering the airport we found there were signs advertising that there was now a smoking area after security! Yes really, they've added a smoking area!


 lt got better as we entered the area l really hated ...airport security! The mindless, miserable drones l'd been expecting to suffer had been replaced by friendly, respectful, happy staff ... l was stunned. The atmosphere of the whole place was that way. Hell, they've even got a microwave that the public can use FOC.

We wandered down to the smoking area for a cigarette or two. Then we went back into the building towards the double doors that led to the departure lounge. We were met on the stairs by 2 Border Force officers, one male one female. The male officer greeted us like a friend who we haven't seen for quite a while. Zaphod was bemused as he doesn't remember faces well at all, mind the female officer looked just as bemused. l did recognise him, he was one of the officers from our Nov 5th 2011 stop and search.(Video here ... really must complete Part 3 at some point but it's a mess so l keep avoiding it. Battery ran out on i-phone because video eats it up and so have to end with just audio ... Sony battery keeps on going for hours).

Was he genuinely friendly? Yes, l do believe he was and l'm generally a very good judge of that. The only person that suffered re the incident on Nov 5th had been this officer's boss ... perhaps that had something to do with it?

Anyway, me and this officer chatted and joked for a while. He asked where we are going and what we were going to do. Seeing as there were only 2 more flights out of Doncaster that night and both were to Poland l had no qualms about telling him. l did however say that l couldn't tell him what we were doing as there were ladies present. l did however say we were going to friend's 'sort of' nightclub. The officer laughed at this but his bemused female partner didn't seem so amused.

We then returned to departures and took the flight to Gdansk. We tried new apartments in Gdansk and we were blown over by the standard. The apartment was fantastic, very good value and excellently situated for Gdansk. We can't recommend them highly enough www.norda-apartamenty,pl We didn't use the hostal we used on our previous trip because the Polish guy Karol became incommunicado for some reason or other.

We had a great time, saw our friend Rhys and of course 'the Dude'. Night times are a little hazy but we're still smiling.

So came the time for our return to UK. I packed my bag with a bottle of FUCKOFF Vodka just in case we were stopped and searched upon our return to Doncaster ... and off we went.



Upon arrival in Doncaster, we set our recorders going before we got off the plane. We passed through passport control which was staffed by 2 female BF Officers. No questions or anything were asked of us, just friendly smiles and we were then onto the baggage carousel to collect our luggage.

So we waited ... and waited ...and waited. Everyone else got their luggage and had left. Oh oh, we thought ... here we go again, same as Nov 5th 2011.... our luggage has been x-rayed and they are holding it back. Sure enough our cases then turned up together ... no other cases on the carousel. We picked up our cases and set off for the exit. l could see a female officer standing to the side of the exits ... the self same officer that we'd seen prior to our departure from Doncaster a couple of days earlier. As we approached l could see her saying something into her radio. We passed her and headed for the Blue Channel where we would approach the ambush point.... and the 3 Border Force Officers waiting there ... this is what happened next -