New legislative changes will allow UK authorities to shut down illegal mini-marts and counterfeit shops for up to a year. The tougher regulations target businesses selling illicit goods, such as illegal vapes, counterfeit merchandise, and unsafe food products, which have increasingly occupied prominent high streets. Under previous rules, councils and police could only enforce short-term closures. The extended closure powers aim to deter illegal trading, protect legitimate retailers, and clean up major shopping districts.
- Authorities will receive enhanced powers to close shops selling illicit goods for up to 12 months.
- The crackdown primarily targets retailers selling counterfeit items, unregulated vapes, and tax-evading products.
- Previous enforcement measures only allowed for short-term closures, which frequently failed to deter repeat offenders.
- The measures are designed to protect consumers from unsafe goods and support legitimate local businesses.
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Easily solution remove the heavy tax on cigs, tobacco and alcohol make sure there’s a limit on prices and watch how these shops disappear themselves! Cause and demand
We will shut down all remaining high Street shops…you will shop online.. you will only use multi national supermarkets you will not use cash, we will track everything you do, you will fall for this propaganda video
Two tier Keir's policing has led to our high streets looking like a den of thieves.
Performative policing. Unfortunately they'll wind down once the publicity fades.
A secretary who is not English!.
The real crime is how many of them are on benefits!
One thing to crack down on shops selling cheap cigarettes. What about locking up under age hoodlums who go around trashing places ? Under 18s are not angels. Funny country where parking offences and customs offences get treated more seriously than violent crime like rape and murder. Basically you go after easy targets.
Yeah Amazon killed the family shops. Keep buying fast fashion. Cheerio.
Well done BBC. Finally got rid of Russel T Davis
Now target Sparkhill, Alum Rock and Boardesley Green in Birmingham
Iiralnd should be free. Iran should be free. Ban sharia
None of are British. Is that racist, or just because British people don't run illegal mini marts? I'd like you to ask her that question
Todays propaganda piece is:
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I can see the future. The man in this video was given a 2-week prison sentence and was ordered to pay a fine he never paid. Finally, some justice. 🤣
this is just what happens when all the regular shops leave and there are no more legitimate jobs left because of 16 years of austerity politics. We warned everyone the country could end up like this if people voted tory back in 2010. And then again about brexit in 2016. Two lost decades. And policing won't do more than play Whac-A-Mole
The only solution is to actually start investing in our country again. But instead it looks like everyone wants reform to do austerity 3.0. Just to really finish us all off
But I dont understand! What happened in Northern Ireland last night was "mOsTLy PeAcEfUl pRoTesTs"!
"dOn'T LoOk bACk iN AnGeR"
I honestly can't fathom why the B B C would turn off comments on the last few videos. Very strange.
This is the new life of multiculturalism. You have to understand something at all cultures respect honesty many of these people just wanna make money and they don’t really care how they make it. That’s what makes us different honor respect respect ability.
Patel, Braverman, Mahmood 😂 Brexthick Britain. 😂
weird edit
I think the background music is not working, keep check before posting a videos
going after shops selling non-taxed cigarettes instead of going after child exploitation.
i think we know who paid these MP's….
This is why the law change to prohibit cigarettes will only push it underground and push crime up
Dont they own the properties? Wont they forever own it and sit there derelict
Now the poor can't even earn a living while the elites live off corrupt gains.
Too little, too late.
High streets are full of these corner shops one after another. What they gonna do, close them all?
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When food gets so expensive you need to sell your kidneys to feed your kids you'll wish the mini marts run by Asians were back.
Police said street was full of drugs / crime/ prostitution and all was shown was person selling cheap cigarette
Why shut for a year? 😂 anyone running an illegal business used for organised crime should be banned for life, and where applicable citizenship removed and deported
New owners name on the lease, new lease of life.
I mean why not focus on violent crime first? This doesn’t seem like a priority.
Finally. Gov does something. Only about 8 years too late..
The tax on tobacco is criminal, close to 900 percent of actual cost, that is criminal
More scum breaking laws and the government does nothing. Oooo they close for 6months what a penalty. They should be such down for good it they are part of these crimes but the government knows most of the employees can't get a job anywhere else lol
About time !
I am so happy to hear that in the UK the biggest problem is illegal minimarts, not housing or energy prices…
This has been going on for decades !
EVERY PERSON HAS A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. WHEN FACED WITH THE SAME EVENT, EVERYONE SAYS DIFFERENT THINGS. THE MEANING EACH PERSON ASSIGNS IS DIFFERENT. YES, I THINK THE CONCEPT OF ASSIGNING MEANING IS IMPORTANT.
They shut 3 of these shops in my village…. 3 months later, they have reopened
Windsor, Westminster and Whitehall have encouraged all of this for decades now, let the blame game go to where it deserves.
So tragic what is going on in Europe! The European (and all the global industrialized) Governments should be MUCH MUCH stronger in their financial and political support to the United Nations Humanitarian organizations in the countries of immigrant origin! That way these poor people would not want to migrate to Europe! Its so much cheaper to support potential migrants where they are than having to handle the intercultural clashes on European soil!
Aren't local councils letting these 'shops' on the High streets? Giving them permission? The West midst Police are useless
we have 3 barber shops and 2 vape shops in a small village, theere are between 3 and 6 barbers in each shop, and no customers, they sit outside learing at young girls and the council give them rent free contracts for a year… they know its going on
Illegal?
I don't think they are, mate.
BBC are clearly just being racist.