Reading them makes me ashamed of my own country. But here's the thing ... we are allowing them to do it. There is very rarely any record of the stop by HMRC, it is only the word of the harassed shopper against HMRC.
ln this day and age of technology, this need not be so. There are numerous recording devices on the open market ... and not only audio but video as well. Prices are more than reasonable and a good device can be purchased for under £20. They come in all forms ... pens, keyfobs, sunglasses and such. lt's about time that shoppers started to use them. Post the videos on youtube etc or the audio on blogs.Let the world really see what is going on.
We certainly can't depend on investigative journalism, in fact l wonder if it actually exists anymore. So people, let's 'accidentally' record these HMRC Officers that think it's perfectly ok to rob legitimate UK Shoppers by any means they can.
Time for action, folks!
Damn I wish I had a passport. A member of F2C forum, Visigoth, goes abroad for his tobacco requirements and always has some tale of woe or another regarding the border Nazis. They must be held to account for thier discriminatory actions against smokers, damn it.
ReplyDeletel am shortly to take some WW2 veterans to Normandy and the surrounding area. They are being funded by Heroes Return http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_heroes_return
ReplyDeletel am donating my time and vehicle freely. l hope they wish to personally purchase some tobacco to bring back to the UK. l've never ran the Calais - Dover gauntlet before so it should be interesting. Of course many years ago, the WW2 veterans have ... although the enemy were on French soil then, not here.
Thanks Big Yin for the intro
ReplyDeleteI (The Visigoth) have been taking groups to Europe for 40+ years and I lived behind the
Berlin Wall for a year. In the last 2 years I have been stopped more than the previous 44
including the VolksPolizei (DDR)put together
There is no law in the UK or Eu broken by an
EU citizen for carrying ANY amount of duty
paid tobacco...NONE,,REPEAT,,,NONE.
The customs officials have only one tool
straight out of the Soviet Handbook,,FEAR.
Spread the fear and worry amongst law abiding citizens and anxiety will do the rest.
HMCR are litte more than overpaid stooges and Judases
PS I have never had anything siezed but I have been stopped even with a small cabin bag
They try to trap you into telling a lie about
your travel plans and then use that as justification for "witholding" your purchases
"illegally"
The very rarely stop regular EU visitors ,
they dare,nt. Ever wondered why?
Warning UK Customs on French Soil at Calais
Very good at finding Fags ,piss poor at finding Somalis and Afghans
The Visigoth
West Pennine Gulag
Visigoth You have to have British passports to be pulled in Dover.
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