Coke smuggling toff and London Fields Brewery owner gets lenient treatment from judge. Well I never

[danny la rouge]

Hang on I thought drug dealers were meant to be a good thing?

Not in my ethics. They're twats, especially coke dealers.

 

[Belushi]

His brewery does make lovely ale

What was his cocaine like?

 

[Wilson]

Made good crack probably.

 

[el-ahrairah]

i think the issue here is the clear matter of class-based privilege in law, not the actual crime. though, as tasty as it is, there's no such thing as ethical coke (and probably wouldn't be if it was legal either, unless we started producing it in the uk, and even then, under capitalism, it would probabyl still be exploitative and ethically dubious) so a person who seeks to have any sort of clear cut moral highground really should avoid it.

 

[DotCommunist]

do we know how much of his twelve stretch Lord Chang actually did? in an open probably.

 

[cantsin]

i think the issue here is the clear matter of class-based privilege in law, not the actual crime. though, as tasty as it is, there's no such thing as ethical coke (and probably wouldn't be if it was legal either, unless we started producing it in the uk, and even then, under capitalism, it would probabyl still be exploitative and ethically dubious) so a person who seeks to have any sort of clear cut moral highground really should avoid it.

don't think it's poss to grow cocoa in UK due to climactic limitations - but 'come the revolution' , surely we'll be to trade equitably/ethically with our South American bros + sistas, our beer-for-their-coke etc ?

 

[Citizen66]

don't think it's poss to grow cocoa in UK due to climactic limitations - but 'come the revolution' , surely we'll be to trade equitably/ethically with our South American bros + sistas, our beer-for-their-coke etc ?

Paying the farm labourers with alcohol, get them addicted to keep them in our servitude.

 

[DotCommunist]

just close all centre parks and turn the domes into hothouses for the coca leaf

 

[Orang Utan]

don't think it's poss to grow cocoa in UK due to climactic limitations - but 'come the revolution' , surely we'll be to trade equitably/ethically with our South American bros + sistas, our beer-for-their-coke etc ?

Let's not be confusing cocoa with coca!

 

[passenger]

Really want some coke right now after reading this..... only from someone not like him tho.

getting some for xmas, first time in years well a year

 

[el-ahrairah]

don't think it's poss to grow cocoa in UK due to climactic limitations - but 'come the revolution' , surely we'll be to trade equitably/ethically with our South American bros + sistas, our beer-for-their-coke etc ?

as long as it's produced by willing, unionised labour in environmentally sound conditions!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I thought that coca needed certain levels of altitude to grow, but after looking it up apparently it's relatively tolerant. You do need a vast quantity of leaves to make any real amount of cocaine though.

 

[Casually Red]

Hang on I thought drug dealers were meant to be a good thing?

for target practice mebbe..or a temporary sandbag during a flood... good for fuck all else.

 

[Buckaroo]

I thought that coca needed certain levels of altitude to grow, but after looking it up apparently it's relatively tolerant. You do need a vast quantity of leaves to make any real amount of cocaine though.

Chemicals, loads of chemicals to make the finished product. Filthy, toxic poison shit that it is.

 

[Dogsauce]

The fact that the guy allegedly made several million dealing suggests he isn't one of the good guys. Nobody makes that kind of money without someone getting screwed.

 

[Thimble Queen]

i think the issue here is the clear matter of class-based privilege in law, not the actual crime. though, as tasty as it is, there's no such thing as ethical coke (and probably wouldn't be if it was legal either, unless we started producing it in the uk, and even then, under capitalism, it would probabyl still be exploitative and ethically dubious) so a person who seeks to have any sort of clear cut moral highground really should avoid it.

This is this point.

 

[cantsin]

as long as it's produced by willing, unionised labour in environmentally sound conditions!

it'll be in self organised workers collectives ( though in partnership with the wider community / economic organisation, so they can't just being doing all the gear willy nilly )

 

[YouSir]

Why not seize the business? Should cover the debts and he can have the change back, if there is any.

 

[not-bono-ever]

The fact that the guy allegedly made several million dealing suggests he isn't one of the good guys. Nobody makes that kind of money without someone getting screwed.

indeed, this isnt a guy ritchie directed comedy toffs drug producer scene.

 

[editor]

Tsk tsk toffboy.

A convicted cocaine smuggler who runs a fashionable London brewery has been arrested on suspicion of tax evasion after a dawn raid at his home.

Former public schoolboy Jules de Vere Whiteway-Wilkinson was detained after officers from HM Revenue and Customs arrived at his house in Stoke Newington to question him about allegations that he has been failing to pay VAT at the London Fields Brewery.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/cocaine-smuggling-brewery-boss-held--in-vat-raid-9905800.html

 

[Giles]

just close all centre parks and turn the domes into hothouses for the coca leaf

It would make make a Centre Parks holiday a lot more interesting.

 

[WouldBe]

don't think it's poss to grow cocoa in UK due to climactic limitations

Just make it synthetically.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Carlsberg acquires UK-based craft brewer London Fields Brewery

Carlsberg have just handed this toff a big wedge of cash. he is obviously a bloody good chap with fine business acumen and not a drug dealing parasite who needs a shoeing

 

[keybored]

Carlsberg acquires UK-based craft brewer London Fields Brewery

Carlsberg have just handed this toff a big wedge of cash. he is obviously a bloody good chap with fine business acumen and not a drug dealing parasite who needs a shoeing

 

[jusali]

so sells one addictive drug gets sent down cos it's illegal. Gets out sells state authorised addictive drug makes loadsa cash.
It's a funny old world.......

 

[mather]

If he was selling dodgy coke then give him a more appropriate punishment, force him to ingest kilo after kilo of his own crap until his heart and veins pop wide open.

 

[Saul Goodman]

So some cunt gets a 12 stretch for what the powers that be consider to be a serious crime, but they still want their cut of the profits?
Cheeky fuckers