Don’t let them eat cake! Just when you thought you’d heard it all from Labour, this happened… Labour run Bassetlaw District Council, which covers part of my constituency, is imposing a tax on people selling homemade cakes or fresh eggs from boxes at their front gates. They’ve set this absurd tax at an astonishing £1,007. Yes, you read that correctly, everyone who has the audacity to try to make a few quid from a bit of home baking, or offers boxes of fresh eggs, usually with an honesty box, has to pay Labour a stonking great fee for the privilege. As most people don’t even make £1,007 a year for doing this, presumably this is designed to end this harmless and in fact very endearing practice altogether. Honesty boxes, eggs, cakes, biscuits, sold at a farm gate or the end of the driveway in a rural village.. what could be more quintessentially English. Well, not under Labour. These people govern us as if they hate our country. To make the whole thing more absurd, the fine for failing to pay the £1,007 had been set at £1,000. So you would be better off not paying at all and get fined… I’ve written to Bassetlaw District Council to protest. Bassetlaw’s common sense Reform UK councillors are committed to reversing this idiocy if they take control of the council next year. Another reason to boot out Labour and back Reform UK. Has there ever been a more incompetent and out of touch group of people running our country than this Labour government and their town hall toadies?

@RobertJenrick They want to destroy every single business in UK and any thoughts of starting one.

You really are an odious little man aren't you? It isn't a tax, it's a street trading licence. The council has explicitly stated that eggs, vegetables and cut flowers sold as surplus from normal domestic life are not covered by the policy. The licensing team has been instructed to take a proportionate and pragmatic approach based on individual circumstances, and fines would only result from persistent serious cases. The policy applies to anyone selling goods on any street or public space where the public has access without payment, it's a street trading policy, not a tax on garden gate honesty boxes per se.

@RobertJenrick It appears doing it all online gets around this, correct? You could do online sales and deliveries to a set collection point, perhaps a local car park, and that would be fine. So perhaps just an advert on the property with a code to scan to order a delivery.

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@RobertJenrick @grok what’s this about? Is it because it’s classed as street trading?

@RobertJenrick @A1an_M Well Robert, these people are businesses really, entrepreneurs even. If they are making healthy profits they should be taxed.

@RobertJenrick @vivythered Anything nice, British, quaint or charming? Labour will destroy it.... Moved from education to cakes....

@RobertJenrick @BassetlawDC @UKLabour

@RobertJenrick @jemmm85517813 This sounds like bollocks to me… whoever sells cakes like that? And would anyone seriously buy a cake if they don’t know it’s safe?

@RobertJenrick We used to sell hen & duck eggs & honey at the gate in a honesty box. Started off well but we were having so much stolen we stopped as we were pissed off putting out quality at good prices £1.25 for 6 hen eggs, £1.50 for 6 duck eggs & £5 for a 1/2lb jar of honey. All that work 😠

@RobertJenrick @ladyjan67 They just want to destroy everything that is traditionally British until everyone has forgotten what it is.

@RobertJenrick @Lord_Woodsy What joyless people the Bassetlaw counsellors and officers must be. They are to be pitied.

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@RobertJenrick Honest boxes are symbolic of a high trust society. Of course Labour wants to banish them - it's part of their plan to create a third world hell hole where theft and violence are the norm.

@RobertJenrick This from the guy who saved his mate millions in tax on a housing deal

@RobertJenrick @resistance76365 How about the eggs get left for passers by to redecorate the council office windows with? Horrible Lefty cunts will tax everything.

let me be clear, i think it's rich that u're complaining about taxes when your own party's record on tax cuts for the wealthy is well-documented, £1,007 might be a lot for a homemade cake stall but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the £126,000 in freebies i've had to declare, including a £4,200 box at the emirates, maybe we should focus on fairness across the board rather than cherry-picking examples to fit your narrative

@RobertJenrick How many schools will have to pay this ridiculous tax for their homemade cake stalls at their summer fetes to help raise money for their schools

@RobertJenrick @Sidney65606346 Car boot sales and eBay transactions will be next. They will tax us into the ground.

@RobertJenrick This is absolute fucking bollocks from you are usual. You lot will try anything to distract from @Nigel_Farage £5 MILLION undeclared donation and @TiceRichard tax dodging.

@RobertJenrick @J4m13___ My god!!!!!!!!! Each day I think, this excuse of a government or a Labour run council couldn’t get any worse, and then it happens 🤬

@RobertJenrick How bloody petty can you get. @Keir_Starmer " we will tread lightly on your lives". Every little bit of this adds up to your partys death

@RobertJenrick @peanut_astro Money, money, money…..that’s what they want…but it ends in less money because everyone stops working. Stupid socialist ideology.

@RobertJenrick @Jan08602980 It’s disgusting to have that mentality that it’s their money not your money. How dare anyone just try and make ends meet … Labour need to be gone and soon before this country is lost Forever

@RobertJenrick This is probably a lie. Because he lies a lot.

@RobertJenrick @MaryGreenway1 This happens in Kent frequently. Eggs raspberries, home grown veg etc. Ive left money in honesty boxes. Its a pittance, why tax it. Soon breathing will be taxed, or flushing the toilet too many times. The LP are overly interfering.

@RobertJenrick I want people to pay a street trading license thank you. Otherwise anyone could put stuff outside to sell, they should also have all hygiene certification too, given the state of some peoples kitchens

@RobertJenrick This is, unfortunately, my council, so I won’t be selling any homemade cakes at the front gates any time soon. The best thing the people of #Bassetlaw can do is vote Labour out at the next local and general election! Listen to Alex and #VoteReform

@RobertJenrick See plenty of New Reforms Cllrs being kicked out already. Vetting must be really poor, they even let you in!

@RobertJenrick @GHWTowler So infuriating. Locally grown produce is often more healthy than what you get in the supermarkets, with zero mileage.

@RobertJenrick If I remember rightly I'm sure Labour also said no one is allowed to keep chickens in their garden or grow vegetables . All part of the plan so they can in the near future starve us into submission to their evil agenda.

@RobertJenrick The lefties saying this doesn't apply to eggs need to read the whole of section 2 and not just the bits they like. It clearly states a £1000 PA limit and has a clause for over-production for commercial benefit. Why did granny bake 2 cakes and sell 1? bassetlaw.gov.uk/media/h5klnonq…

@RobertJenrick When you have to lie and mislead Jenrick to get clicks, you have sunk even lower than many thought you could. You are a figure of ridicule in Newark and will be sent packing at the next General Election.

@RobertJenrick Dear God, this is obscene, these people are vile, I find it unbelievable people running a council could be so petty!🤮 a pox on them!

@RobertJenrick @Louise_katz THEY JUST HATE THE BRITISH PEOPLE UNBELIEVABLE OR IS IT ? THE SOONER THEY ARE GONE THE BETTER

@RobertJenrick Appendix 1 Street Trading Policy - DRAFT V1.1.pdf share.google/ar9rIDD2a6wCml… This is only a draft but it looks like they might reverse this. Absolutely ridiculous desire to control everything

@RobertJenrick @MercerCait Be cheaper to use to eggs to pelt the decision-makers with. These thieves deserve it.

@RobertJenrick @TheVikingQueen3 Labour really are fucking miserable gits. Who’s next kids running stall for their school?