Buddy MercerSo basically, there are a very few shops in the UK that are a front for criminals. Well, blow me down, who'da thunk that eh?
I wouldn't go that far:
[www.bbc.co.uk]
Familiar sounding extract from that report
Chinese triads have a 'vast business'
There is also a "significant production" of illicit tobacco here in the UK, says Prof Antonopoulos.
A Trading Standards team in south Wales told us that counterfeit hand-rolling tobacco is often sold cheaply. They claimed that some of it was made using forced labour, controlled by Chinese gangs.
Dave McKelvey, managing director of TM Eye private investigators, which works with tobacco firms to gather evidence on the illicit trade, claims that Fujian-based Chinese triads operate a "vast business" here in the UK.
And trying to track down the people in charge of these criminal enterprises is a challenge.
Trading Standards told the BBC that those named as the company director often have no real involvement in the company. Instead, they may be paid a small sum each month to be listed as the director on official documents.
TandyWell I work daily in stirchley and there are about 15 on the high street up to cotteridge and they gave 4 or 5 in each one so that at least 60 barbers cutting hair in a daily basis. Lucky if they do 1 or 2 each a day at that rate. Hard to see how they make any money so maybe that’s the real reason they are viewed suspiciously. I doubt they are all run by Turkish barbers though 😉When there are 5/6 within a few hundred yards it’s a big giveaway.😉
No it isn’t.
There's about 10 round by me and only 2 of them seem to have customers.
The dessert shops are just as bad. They really can't be taking enough money to be a viable business even in the summer.
Greebo joeTandyWell I work daily in stirchley and there are about 15 on the high street up to cotteridge and they gave 4 or 5 in each one so that at least 60 barbers cutting hair in a daily basis. Lucky if they do 1 or 2 each a day at that rate. Hard to see how they make any money so maybe that’s the real reason they are viewed suspiciously. I doubt they are all run by Turkish barbers though 😉When there are 5/6 within a few hundred yards it’s a big giveaway.😉
No it isn’t.
Is every Italian restaurant run by an Italian or is it the style of the food that is Italian?
Many of them aren’t Turkish, even though advertised as such. A lot are Kurdish.
On the face of it there are disproportionate numbers of them when you look at the catchment area. That is bound to lead to speculation that some, at least, are engaged in some sort of covert activity. When a business supplies a service for mainly cash customers, then it could be used for money laundering. I’m not saying they are, but I’m saying they could be.
Depending on how you are defining what makes someone Turkish ie based on their birthplace rather than their ethnicity then someone who is Kurdish may be Turkish.
Kurdish isn’t a nationality. A lot of Kurdistan is in Turkey.
My father-in-law is Kurdish. He's into everything including money laundering, prostitution, drug cultivation and Badger grooming. Proper wrong un but a smashing pastry cook.
Leggy MountbattenMy father-in-law is Kurdish. He's into everything including money laundering, prostitution, drug cultivation and Badger grooming. Proper wrong un but a smashing pastry cook.
What kind of grooming though? as in trimming their toenails and giving em a quick brush over or buying them lots of sweets and taking them out for rides when they are pups type of thing.
Greebo joeTandyWell I work daily in stirchley and there are about 15 on the high street up to cotteridge and they gave 4 or 5 in each one so that at least 60 barbers cutting hair in a daily basis. Lucky if they do 1 or 2 each a day at that rate. Hard to see how they make any money so maybe that’s the real reason they are viewed suspiciously. I doubt they are all run by Turkish barbers though 😉When there are 5/6 within a few hundred yards it’s a big giveaway.😉
No it isn’t.
Had my haircut in stirchley for over 20 years by stirchley gents next to Cafe
Chap was a bluenose from redditch lovely bloke I’m guessing the extra barber shops closed him down
Fulhams shirt sponsors have just been done for money laundering. Dunno if they’re Turkish.
Cleveleys on the Lancashire coast, a town about the size of Coleshill now has ten barbers, only two of which are traditional English barbers. We also have two nail bars.
NewheavenlybluesCleveleys on the Lancashire coast, a town about the size of Coleshill now has ten barbers, only two of which are traditional English barbers. We also have two nail bars.
Are we claiming there is such thing as a traditional English barber, now?
As a kid I used to go to Jack Smiths in Northfield.
Very much a traditional British barbers, stack of newspapers on the coffee table while you waited, of course ashtrays and sold big razors, gel, brylcream and B something for the weekend behind the counter.
TheHeathAs a kid I used to go to Jack Smiths in Northfield.
Very much a traditional British barbers, stack of newspapers on the coffee table while you waited, of course ashtrays and sold big razors, gel, brylcream and B something for the weekend behind the counter.
Were there magazines in the barbers in 1884? Or was that tradition just the trend at the time you went and stuck around for a bit? They had them in the traditional dentists and doctors too.