More New Labour fuckwittery: Gordon Williams, fined for smoking in his own van...

Tax the plebs no matter the legality of the issue:

A self-employed painter and decorator has been given a £30 on-the-spot fine for smoking in his own van because it is classified as a workplace.

Gordon Williams, 58, went out to buy some teabags for his wife when he was stopped as part of a roadside check by council officials.

Moments earlier he had lit a cigarette and was issued the penalty notice under anti-smoking legislation that bans it in the workplace. Mr Williams, a grandfather, is planning to appeal against the fine even though his wife has already paid it.

So since when did council employees have the legal power to issue on the spot fines, unless they have become some branch of the New Labour Staatssicherheit(East German Stasi).

Although he uses the unmarked van to transport his paint and ladders he says it is not a workplace and he uses it only to travel to and from jobs.

Which makes it not a place of work but a private vehicle.

A view held by the Welsh Assembly who's spokesman said:

“Smoking is permitted in vehicles used for work purposes that are for the sole use of the driver and are not used as a workplace by anyone else.”

An illegal act by a council out to throw its weight about, welcome to Gordon Brown's Brave New Cool Britannia.

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