Your correspondent Mr Guinan wanted to ask me 'a few questions' (Illegal traders', Times Letters, November 15). I suppose it is incumbent upon me to answer them.
He asks if "these people" are claiming benefits. How would I know? What is more relevant how does Mr Guinan know if they are?
He goes on to ask: "Can they produce evidence of tax and national insurance contributions?" Are they obliged to, to either me or Mr Guinan? I think not. Isn't that why we employ that redoubtable organisation, the Inland Revenue?
Come off it Mr Guinan, own up. You are pulling our legs aren't you? I suppose I'm just as free to ask mischievous questions as you are. Are you really a discontented flower seller, a closet tax inspector, frustrated whistle-blower or a trainee recruit for the Moral Police?
I, and thousands of others, can give you bigger and more rewarding targets to aim at, drug traffickers, vice-racketeers, dishonest police officers, and the rest. By the way the Inland Revenue are obviously well satisfied, as the flower sellers are back this week, well wrapped up for the winter.
Geoff Bradley
Parkway, Temple Fortune
November 20, 2001 11:38
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