MARKET TRADER FACES £60,000 BILL FOR SELLING HIS PRODUCE IN POUNDS AND OUNCESTHE FASCIST EUROPEAN SUPERSTATE REACHES NEW LEVELS OF LUNACY AND DICTATORSHIP
By David Icke
MARKET TRADER FACES £60,000 BILL FOR SELLING HIS PRODUCE IN POUNDS AND OUNCES
It's official - European law overrides UK law and bureaucrats in Brussels can dictate the quantities in which a market trader can sell his produce, no matter if his customers are happy with his policy and, indeed, support his stand.
What level of centralised control have we reached when not only can't the seller make a free choice on the measurements used to sell his wares, neither can the buyer be allowed to freely choose the quantities in which he or she will purchase? It is utter madness, or it would be if there was not a sinister purpose behind it all.
Today, a market trader has been convicted of breaking European Union weights and measures legislation by selling his fruit in pounds and ounces in the first prosecution of its kind in Britain. Greengrocer Steven Thoburn, 36, of from Sunderland, now faces a maximum fine of £1,000 on each of the two offences and court costs estimated to run up to £60,000. This for the "crime" of selling his produce in the ages-old British measurements of pounds and ounces instead of the European-dictated metric system.
He was convicted of breaching the Weights and Measures Act 1985 in a hearing which district judge Bruce Morgan said centred around the "most famous bunch of bananas in legal history". Trading Standards officers from Sunderland City Council bought a bunch of bananas from his stall to prove that he was selling in pounds and ounces - not that there was any secret because the fact was advertised all over his stall. But the freedom to make a free choice of how to sell and how to buy has been destroyed by the European dictatorship.
The father-of-two was taken to court after the trading standards officers raided his market stall in the Southwick area of Sunderland on July 4, 2000 and seized two sets of scales. Mr Thoburn was prosecuted for selling his produce in pounds and ounces.
In his ruling, Mr Morgan told Sunderland Magistrates Court that he was aware that regardless of the verdict the case would be going to appeal.
"It has been made clear to me that despite the decision of this court the matter will be taken elsewhere."
David Icke
