THE FOOD POLICE
By ATWadmin On April 23rd, 2009
THIS is what our police have been reduced to.
The hit squad had prepared their raid long in advance. At 10am eight police officers, some in anti-stab vests, joined three council employees on the doorstep of the Bamboo Joint takeaway. Their mission?
To stamp out the practice of selling jerk chicken within 400 metres of a secondary school.
Now then, regardless of whether one thinks kids should eat Caribbean food, the very idea that a local Council can close down a businesson the grounds that they don’t approve of the sort of FOOD that it sells is an outrage, a perverse restriction on private enterprise and a curtailment of choice for citizens. The owners were given three days to close down. How bad is that?
Enlisting the police to enforce this fascist tyranny is even worse. We have morphed into a police state under Labour, with motorists and fast food proprietors now public enemy number one. The jerks that we needto be concerned about are not found on menu board of the cafe concerned, but in the offices of the Council concerned which launched this raid on a carry-out because they deemed it unhealthy.
This country does not just need a change of Government, it needs a revolution. We once more need to assert OUR rights and liberties and throw off the suppression of the scum in power.
Testing
Sorry, just testing. On another thread I got an alert about posts first being passed by an editor. Is that a bug in the system>
The action is intended to combat child obesity by reducing the number of shops selling unhealthy fast food near schools and parks
http://www.dianaskitchen.com/page/poultry/jerkchk.htm
It doesn’t look unhealthy to me. But that’s not even the point. This is madness. Mark Steyn has coined the phrase soft totalitarianism and we can expect much more of it.
Henry94,
Indeed!
Inescapably, one thinks of frogs in saucepans of warming water…
It does seem very heavy handed – however I note in the local paper.
The owners of the cafe in Leytonstone High Road had not applied for planning permission.
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/
Curious how similar the quotes are in the local paper and the Daily Mail. Surely just a coincidence.
"The Metropolitan Police was unable to explain why it had such a strong presence in the raid."
I just bet they were!
Barry,
No. Not a bug. From time to time, in future, I will impose this filter to ensure all is well. But at the moment, it is OFF.
Okay you always bang on about the nanny state but this time you actually seem to have a point
Its always best to blame the business man for childhood obesity insteadof the child or the parents
Jaz -
Yes, terribly dreadful that the owner of a shop hadn’t asked the State for permission to open for business, which is what that is about.
To stamp out the practice of selling jerk chicken within 400 metres of a secondary school.
These people who make and support these absurd and arbitrary rules – the politicians and civil servants, the planning officers and councillors and police – some of them really are utterly mad.
Genuinely most don’t realise they are dupes of a de facto fascist State, but any who enforce something so daft without thinking, "what a ridiculous way to earn a living – I’m off" just hasn’t got the brains to be trusted with anything.
Mr Moore – on this one I will concede a partial defeat. Local authorities have a legitimate role in town planning and the system of planning permission is a good principle, I think in this particular case, as I said on my post, that this seems very heavy-handed.
David
Its a bylaw that was introduced by Labour-dominated Waltham Forest in March and applies only to those takeaways yet to receive planning permission.
It prevents them from opening close to one another and puts a limit on the total number in the borough’s town centres.
Which in my view is great and exactly what a council should be doing. I WISH they would do this near where I live – we have a whole street full of skanky take away places with all the usual nobs who hang around outside day and night.
I also wish them success with applying the same sort of law to lapdancing clubs. We have one almost opposite a school near where I live. It also advertises on a massive billboard right by a primary school.
Local people finally got that crap removed.
But yes sending in the police to do their bidding is pathetic.
I realise it won’t be the exact same law for lapdancing holes. But hey – skanky meat take aways and those clubs, all pretty much the same.
you can’t take away the meat from a lap dancing hole, so no, not pretty much the same at all.
yeah you can. you just have to pay extra.though granted the skankier take aways don’t charge extra for that.
…direct hit! Or touche(z)
A prime example of New Labour in action! Words fail!!
>>yeah you can. you just have to pay extra.though<<
You also have to pay extra for the saucy bits.
Which is definitely required considering the sad condition of most of those meat sticks.
Anyway enough about slicing up an elephant’s foot and sticking it in between unlevened bread.
Wherever that takes place, it needs some ….planning control
Right, so the Council has decided not to grant another fast food joint planning permission on that street?
It was open without planning permission and they sent the police down to close it down.
I see …
I travel to Bermuda a few times a year
They’ve always pretty much banned fast food joints. They think that they would lead to more litter and to a lesser quality of street life.
And more US type waistlines.
Not sure that they’re wrong.
Alison,
Why’d y’al assume it’s only coons who enjpy bush-meat?
The number of officers, indeed the presence of officers seems unnecessary. However, if a food store opens without the appropriate permit as has been suggested, it should be closed down.
I also suspect one of the motivations of having a distance betwen a school and a face food joint is not merely dietary concerns but gang issues (congregation points).
no you can’t, you obviously never tried takeaway at a lap dancing club. go on, try it and see where it gets you. i’m due to get have the neck brace removed next week.