HMRC bust of the century !
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philthy

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258 months

interloper

2,747 posts

273 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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Those figure are hilarious! 1 kilo of rolling tobacco, my god, imagine the street value of that!

robinhood21

30,946 posts

250 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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My God! That will put the fear of Christ into the baccy barons.

philthy

Original Poster:

4,697 posts

258 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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"were found during the raids in Barnstaple, Torquay, and Plymouth."

How many men/women did that take then?
They would have saved the taxpayer a few quid, if they'd simply gone to he corner shop and bought some hehe

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

246 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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And in other news...

Gordon Brown said that he is confident that the UK economy is on the up after he found a 20p with no date on down the back of the sofa!

Mannginger

9,926 posts

275 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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325 packs of cigs and a kilo of tobacco?

As I used to be a 20 a day man the first is what I probably smoked in a year and the latter is not worth the paper it's written on...who the feck decided to authorize a press release about that!

Simply ridiculous!

Marf

22,907 posts

259 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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Wow!! One whole kilo of rolling tobacco, that must have a street value of a whopping £200! rolleyes

ypauly

15,137 posts

218 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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Why do they worry about the revenue from tobacco when Gordon the Great is telling everybody to stop smoking?

cazzer

8,883 posts

266 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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It would be funny if it wasn't very very pathetic.

Why don't they realise that if the homologated the tax rate with that of the rest of europe they would kill the illegal import trade overnight and the increased revnue from uk sales would make up for the loss of tax on illegal imports.

Oh no...but that would mean making fags cheaper...and thats bad...mmmmkay.

Oakey

27,957 posts

234 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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It's a bit of a joke when you take into account that real crime gangs are smuggling them in by container loads.

Rollcage

11,338 posts

210 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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From the clip -

"This type of crime is crippling the nation"

I thought that was Brown's job?

zac510

5,546 posts

224 months

Saturday 11th July 2009
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Those rolling tobacco users have been cheating the big cigarette companies out of income for years!