Labour Council Group Latest Wheeze For Smokers

THE Croydonian looks at London Councils Group latest wheeze to make smokers suffer. Says he:

How to hurt a business you dislike
Thames Water, perhaps?

Anyway, the London Councils Group has come up with a really well thought out wheeze - seeking an extension to the Street Litter Control Notices Order 1991, which will allow councils to levy fines (up to £2,500) on companies that do not clear up cigarette butts and the like from outside their premises.

The existing law is comparatively sensible in that it targets, for example:

a). Premises used wholly or partly for the sale of food or drink for consumption off the premises
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(e) banks, building society offices or other premises with the automated teller machines located on an outside wall of the premises.

In the case of a burger joint, its litter is going to be pretty obvious, likewise an ATM receipt with Northern Rock on it, but how, pray, is one to tell a discarded fag end smoked by someone at Mega Co from one smoked by an employee at Ultra Co, or come to that a passer by with an animus against Mega Co who has chosen to make it his or her life’s work to daily decorate the company’s doorway with a collection of fag ends and ash?

The Labour Party is headquartered at 39 Victoria Street, London.

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