Another visit for Colin Hunt last week as Hackney Council seem intent on persecuting another market trader to the point of extinction.To get to Colin's stall in Ridley Road Market, Hackney the Trading Standards officers have to walk past a number of other traders from all sorts of diverse ethnic backgrounds selling goods by the pound and Manchester United and Arsenal and other premier league paraphernalia at prices and quality that I am sure that the clubs would not be happy with.
Stepping past the live Giant African land snails the size of size 10 boots being sold as food and sidestepping all sorts of dried animals that would not be out of place in a museum, and holding your nose at the 'unusual' smells from the various butchers some of whom refrigerate the carcasses but some of which have various animal parts strewn across tables open not only to the elements, but also to the various airborne wildlife you eventually come to Colin's stall.
The Council Officers would have needed to turn more blind eyes than a Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Peters and Lee concert could ever muster to avoid the flagrant public health and trading standards offences but when they get to Colin's pitch their vision miraculously returns.
Not only that, but the Council seems to have a personal vendetta not just against the Metric Martyrs but also yours truly.
Trading Standards officers had also been handing out rather misleading leaflets as we previously reported here but it now appears that it is more sinister than that .... and it wasn't just Hackney who were given such notices with which to attack the Metric Martyrs and Neil H ... a story which Christopher Booker reports in this week's Sunday Telegraph 'Pounds, pints and a personal vendetta.'
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