Shocking Britain

[ShockingBritain]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxplq92rx1o

The crime wave from overseas gang led, drug dealing, money laundering, fake cigarettes, etc dominating our High Streets.

You do not shrug your shoulders and give up. That is the function of the police. To make some inroads. To seek to stop it. No matter how small.
Saying it is all too hard so we do not try is unacceptable.

Absolutely obvious where I live.Long established shops close down saying they can no longer afford to run and are replaced by mini marts or vape shops that rarely have customers but somehow manage to stay in business.
It's not just that money laundering aspect It contributes to breakdown of community cohesion - the high street is not a great place to visit any more. It also adds to the anti immigrant sentiment as most of these shops appear to be run by recent immigrants.
Sick of it and can't understand why it isn't dealt with.

So if an immigrant doesn’t work they’re bad, if they open a mini mart they’re bad???? Make your mind up!
And no I’m not on about the obvious laundering shops.
How dare a non white person run a business because you’re sick of it.
I'm Born and bred in the uk to parents who came here legally in the 60s, grandfather died in the war alongside British troops.
Sick to death of divisive rhetoric being normalised.
@mumsnet
needs to get on top of the racist drivel they allow.

Yes if they open a money-laundering outfit they're bad.
I'm also an immigrant, and I don't take any of this personally - I work and pay taxes and I've never broken a UK law.

It's very obvious which shops are fronts. Maybe you're lucky enough not to live in an area it's affected - I'm not

It’s like those big American candy shops with no customers ever.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5q92npm64o

I see when the police do raid and they are shut down it is temporary and back open and up to the same tricks again. Large gangs shouldn't be controlling our high streets.

@angelos02what has?

I don't care what colour they are, where they were born or what religion, if any, they follow; what's important is that these are run by large organised crime gangs. That's what's important. There are lots of local stores run by immigrants and so what, they are legal, the only stores that shouldn't be operating is the fronts for criminal activity. Nothing racist in wanting crime tackled!

I'm not sure where you got that from. I didn't say they shrug their shoulders nor did I say they've given up. I said they can't keep up, they try but are always far behind the gangs.

The police are on a very tight budget, the gangs make millions from drug money and trafficking. It's not a level playing field.

Furthermore, when did wanting criminal activity stopping become racist. It isn't. You have completely missed the point of the concern.

Car washes
Nail bars
Vape shops
barbers

All fronts for money laundering! And goodness knows what else.

I think with the barbers shops people pay the shop to sponsor them for a skilled worker visa then after 5 years they can get leave to remain, open their own shop and in turn receive money from people to sponsor them to come to Britain.

Barber has now been taken off the skilled worker visa list I believe so these shops may close over time. The paying for a visa to come to Britain scam will have to pivot perhaps to sham care agencies or whatever else offers sponsorship visas.

Not everyone can use trusted local
shops.

When I travel I might need to buy a drink and something to eat in a dodgy place simply because there no other shops available. Cash only on such occasions.

You’ve missed the point as I was replying to Corlan not yourself, I’m not saying money launderers aren’t an issue.

You’re just stirring up thinly veiled race hate and again @mumsnet seems to allow this sentiment in this tinderbox society.

I'm not stirring up race hate. I don't care who runs or owns these fronts for money laundering whether white or black or asian, it really doesn't matter, they are all bad.

Oh and these shops are in areas where I would not take my phone out.

The city where I used to work was shocking for this. There were machete incidents regularly where rival gangs (usually Pakistani vs Slovak) fought over control.

And all these shops, barbers etc are staffed by doctors. engineers etc.
We have a Turkish barber in our town, he has been here for at least 20 years and he is fed up with the other dozen or so "Turkish barbers" in the town. Not one member of staff in any of them can speak Turkish, they are all Syrian and Afghani.
These shops need eradicating.

We had the same a few miles away from where I live. Openly fighting in the street with machetes when people were trying to go about their business. Everyone knows that you can get drugs from all of these places and when I’ve said this before on here I’ve been accused of lying and being racist. It must be lovely to live in an area where these places don’t exist so you don’t believe anywhere else has huge problems with them.

How does that stop anything? They just move to different modalities.

Yes, I think the fact that all this is happening in neighbourhoods far away from the people in power, people in the media etc has meant it's been easy to ignore and pretend everything's fine.

Now the unpleasantness is spreading, it's affecting more people, even the rich are having their fancy watches ripped from their wrists. We've got to wake up, start getting tough and ditch all the weakness and complacency.

Illegal vapes and nangs are an issue in my country too.

The recently Police conducted raids across my city.

There is a bigger issue in the UK with politicians and police being unable or unwilling to deal with these issues. They could conduct raids and deport those found guilty of selling and seize their assets and sell them with money recovered to the government.

In my country if you’re found guilty of selling drugs the DPP will order all your assets to be sold. You essentially lose everything.

Yes I don’t think the consequences here are serious enough to scare the criminals.

When you drive without insurance your car can be crushed. We just need a law saying if a property is used for any money laundering then it’s confiscated by the state. They shouldn’t be free to reopen.