Fixed penalty notice for little girl selling lemonade

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swee'pea99

Legendary Member
Sensasional headlines. It was dad who got the ticket. Changes the whole thing and makes it a non entity.
Can't see that it changes anything really. The basic story is as it was: little girl subject to absurd officiousness; council fesses up, apologies, & reiterates need for its agents to use a bit of common sense; end of story.
 

nickyboy

Norven Mankey
Can't see that it changes anything really. The basic story is as it was: little girl subject to absurd officiousness; council fesses up, apologies, & reiterates need for its agents to use a bit of common sense; end of story.

Dad subject to absurd officiousness

She's 5 years old. You can't seriously think this story of her running the lemonade selling is true can you? It was Dad who set it up, Dad who ran it. Little daughter was tagging along to give her something to do

Agree that the officials should used some common sense and asked them to stop, not issue a penalty notice. But the idea that this was aimed at the girl is nonsense. That's just something dreamt up by the Dad to sensationalise this and the media have latched onto it and played it up for all they're worth
 
Dad subject to absurd officiousness

She's 5 years old. You can't seriously think this story of her running the lemonade selling is true can you? It was Dad who set it up, Dad who ran it. Little daughter was tagging along to give her something to do

Agree that the officials should used some common sense and asked them to stop, not issue a penalty notice. But the idea that this was aimed at the girl is nonsense. That's just something dreamt up by the Dad to sensationalise this and the media have latched onto it and played it up for all they're worth


This is all one-sided

Do we know they didn't have a quiet chat, and the situation then escalated?
 

smutchin

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The basic story is as it was: little girl subject to absurd officiousness; council fesses up, apologies, & reiterates need for its agents to use a bit of common sense; end of story.

Quite. The officials made an error of judgment and the council corrected it. It's hardly proof that Tower Hamlets is some kind of Orwellian dystopia.
 
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swee'pea99

Legendary Member
It was Dad who set it up, Dad who ran it.
All those 50p's! I'll be rich, rich! <evil chuckle....twirls moustachios>
 
Quite. It's possible that enforcement officers were over-zealous jobsworths, equally, it's possible that the father is a stroppy git who didn't like being told what to do.

This is all one-sided

Do we know they didn't have a quiet chat, and the situation then escalated?

Dad subject to absurd officiousness

She's 5 years old. You can't seriously think this story of her running the lemonade selling is true can you? It was Dad who set it up, Dad who ran it. Little daughter was tagging along to give her something to do

Agree that the officials should used some common sense and asked them to stop, not issue a penalty notice. But the idea that this was aimed at the girl is nonsense. That's just something dreamt up by the Dad to sensationalise this and the media have latched onto it and played it up for all they're worth
 
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