The UK is in a hell of a mess right now.
Across the country, there are tens of thousands of British citizens with unlicensed teaspoons, butter knives and other weapons in their kitchen drawers.
These criminals know that being in possession of unlicensed forks leads to a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison, but they’re prepared to take the risk – just because they don’t want to be subjected to the bi-weekly cutlery checks to which all license owners must agree.
Unsurprisingly, local councils fail to catch most of these people due to the sheer number of them.
From time to time, however, councils do succeed in catching a particularly nefarious crook who thought he or she could operate without a permit for a license.
This is one of those times.
A five-year-old girl was left in tears after she was fined £150 for setting up a lemonade stand in east London.
Andre Spicer’s daughter decided to sell cups of lemonade at the end of her street in Mile End, as hundreds of people were attending Lovebox festival in nearby Victoria Park.
But within 30 minutes of setting up, four council enforcement officers approached her table and read from a legal letter informing her that, because she didn’t have a trading permit, she would be fined £150.
The father and daughter duo quickly packed up the stand and went home.
Writing about the incident in The Telegraph, Mr Spicer said: “I’m a professor in a business school, so I probably should have known some kind of permit was required. But this was a five-year-old kid selling lemonade. She wasn’t exactly a public safety hazard.”
Following the exchange, his daughter “sobbed all the way home”.
She told him: “I’ve done a bad thing.”
Though he offered to get her a permit and open a stall on another day, his daughter said it was “too scary”.
British council workers breaking down Mr. Spicer’s door in search of the child.
This little snake-in-the-grass thought she was above the law. She believed that she could blow a big raspberry in the face of the British establishment and remain unpunished.
Now she’s scarred for life.
Was the thrill of operating an illegal drinks stand worth it, child?
No, didn’t think so.
Incidentally, this crime occurred in Tower Hamlets, which is the most colorsome borough in London:
The center of Tower Hamlets.
This means that a good number of shopkeepers whose businesses this White child undercut with cheap lemonade were of the Moslem faith.
Call me jaded and cynical, but I doubt that’s a coincidence. There’s definitely racist intent in this girl’s actions (and possibly her father’s, too) that requires further investigation.
Anyway, hopefully the widespread coverage of this criminal act will discourage other White children from thinking that selling drinks without a trading permit is a good idea. British councils and law enforcement need more time to investigate even bigger crimes, such as the nationwide grooming of Moslem children by White Christians.