Smoke rebel case - One mans fight agaist the nanny state.

From the Morning Advertiser.

The case against smoke ban rebel Dave West has been adjourned until March.

Owner of HeyJo club West, reportedly worth £100m, and designated premises supervisor (DPS) Mark Fraher were both at court today to face charges of failing to display no smoking signs and failing to advise customers to stop smoking.

The charges were brought by Westminster council.

HeyJo hit the headlines post 1 July when it announced it had recruited the services of Cherie Blair to fight the smoking ban in the European Court of Human Rights.

Undercover environmental health officers visited the club and restaurant before the summons was served.

Undercover officers

”We have made no secret of the fact that we are allowing smoking so why do they need to send in undercover officers at the taxpayers expense?” said club executive Harry Barnett.

“This law is supposed to supposed to be about the dangers of staff in smoking environments yet Westminster council is sending their troops into danger zones without masks.”

Barnett also believes it is unfair of Westminster to serve DPS Fraher with a summons as he does not decide on club policy.

But Barnett’s real bone of contention is that the undercover officers stayed for a meal in the club’s restaurant.

“It seems strange that instead of a quick coffee and then get out of this dangerous place, they decided to make a night of it.”

A spokesman for Westminster council said: ”We did send undercover environmental health officers in and they did have a meal. If they did not have food in a restaurant they would have looked very suspicious.”

**Will he win, sadly not a cat in hells chance. Should that happen that the law would be thrown out and what is worse from the states point of view is that its authority to dictate to the plebs would have been questioned.

People might question why when we have record numbers of laws being passed that crime is still such a problem, why when we have record numbers of people employed by and/or working for local/national government that services are failing.

The health issue is in this case a secondary one, the main issue is that of an unpopular law being broken and the states desire to crush any who dare oppose.

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