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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 15:11:19, 10-04-2008 »
I derive peculiar satisfaction from seeing HM Revenue & Customs sent packing with a tweaked ear.

A court has ruled that HRH's beancounters have unjustly collected taxes on teacakes at Marks & Sparks (the retailer, not the left-leaning web forum).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7340101.stm

A decision on the amount to be awarded to Britain's favourite purveyor of high-end comestibles and undergarments may see the Men From The Ministry lighter to the tune of £3.5m,  and somehow I don't see the populace taking to the streets with placards against that decision??  Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: 15:18:49, 10-04-2008 »
What with this and the High Court's BAE decision -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7339231.stm

judiciaries in both London and Europe appear to be playing a blinder today.
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« Reply #2 on: 15:37:15, 10-04-2008 »
Quote from: perfect wagnerite on 15:18:49, 10-04-2008
... and the High Court's BAE decision -

I found it very difficult to resist a major 'Woo Hoo!' over that one. It's not the end of a shabby episode yet by any means but well done the High Court, bless their wigs and gaiters. Lord Justice Moses strikes again. I'm in danger of becoming a groupie. 
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« Reply #3 on: 16:03:11, 10-04-2008 »
Aha!  The teacake triumph is a mere eccles-cake compared to the BAE result - that's an excellent outcome!

Although I occasionally munch a teacake, whilst never having had much personal use for a Typhoon, so perhaps I feel some small element of personal victory in the comestibles case Wink
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« Reply #4 on: 13:18:42, 11-04-2008 »
Gosh! M'Learned Lords of the High Court are at it again this morning. It must be something in the Spring air http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7342324.stm


I'm not so sure about this M & S teacake business though. It turns out they are not talking about what I call teacakes at all, but these things:

                              

They look like damn' biscuits to me with a bit of sweetened foam rubber on top. How dare Brussels interfere with an Englishman's right to define what a teacake is and what isn't ... national sovereignty ... save the British biscuit ... this scepter'd isle (or 'aisle' in the case of M&S) ... etc etc. I'm off to get my placard. 
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« Reply #5 on: 13:34:59, 11-04-2008 »
George, your link took me to a story about a court ruling that giving soldiers on Iraq duty inadequate equipment constituted a breach of their human rights. Nothing about marshmallows.

(edit) Ahem. Sorry, for some reason I got it into my head that your post was the first in a new thread. (Pretty damn pseudo-Marxist of me, I know.)
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« Reply #6 on: 13:39:58, 11-04-2008 »
Tunnock's ''Teacakes'':



Real British Teacakes:
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« Reply #7 on: 13:43:08, 11-04-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett link=topic=2852.msg106092#msg106092
How dare Brussels interfere with an Englishman's right to define what a teacake is and what isn't ... national sovereignty ... save the British biscuit ... this scepter'd isle (or 'aisle' in the case of M&S) ... etc etc. I'm off to get my placard. 

Or indeed to interfere with every free-born Englishman's right to be plied with sugar and emulsified fat by big business flogging it as "chocolate"  Sad
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« Reply #8 on: 13:47:44, 11-04-2008 »
Um, you do have a point there, Richard, but they were different paragraphs.

In the strange world of the R3OK Message Boards ("You don't have to be mad to post here, but it helps!!!") there is a clear thematic link between HMG covering up Al Yamamah contract bribery, inadequate body armour, and the iniquity of VAT on Marks and Spencer's 'teacakes'. I can't now recreate what that connection was but I'm absolutely sure there was one.    



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Quote from: richard barrett on 13:34:59, 11-04-2008
(edit) Ahem. Sorry, for some reason I got it into my head that your post was the first in a new thread.
Not in this particular case, no. But I did manage, if not entirely by myself, to inititiate a new thread which actually started life in the 'Argument' naughty corner yesterday. I think that must be a R3OK first. Cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: 14:17:09, 11-04-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 13:34:59, 11-04-2008
George, your link took me to a story about a court ruling that giving soldiers on Iraq duty inadequate equipment constituted a breach of their human rights. Nothing about marshmallows.
I just came to this post via a link from the Pedantry thread so have as yet no idea what it was in response to, but it's such a wonderful pair of sentences in its own right that I think I may just print it out and pin it to my wall as is.
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« Reply #10 on: 14:20:16, 11-04-2008 »
So, finally, it's offical. The Jaffa Cake is ..... a biscuit. Let there be dancing in the streets! Cheesy

Even though it is partly covered with chocolate and the M & S Teacake has a biscuit base and, oh never mind. It's all too much. Now, as to meringues ...
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