STOPPED by POLICE
I got off the bus with my Lidl shopping bag proceeded in a easterly direction at the corner,
whereupon a Police Car [similar to the vehicle pictured on tupc Home page], pulled up alongside me.
A Policeman lept out of the passenger door while shouting, "Mr. ScotA".
I looked blankly at him and said nothing.
He said, "Were you in Dingwall Council Office?"
I looked blankly at him.
"What were you doing?"
I looked blankly at him.
Meanwhile the police driver was leaning on the top of the car with an insipid grin.
I knew this PC as my local bobby, a not very bright specimen, [In my humble opinion].
I looked blankly at him.
I looked at the sergeants stripes on Sergant 350. He said, "Sergeant MacKay".
"You were giving out leaflets", Sereant MacKay stated.
I opened my bag and pulled out a copy of UK Column
http://www.ukcolumn.org/
Which I handed to him. Sereant MacKay scanned the front page and handed the paper back.
I expect he may have read one of the copies of UK Column which I drop off at the local Police Office.
"Is this what you were handing out?" he enquired crisply.
I looked blankly at him.
"If you are not going to speak I am not wasting my time here", Sergeant Mackay said
before driving off.
I looked blankly after them.
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Earlier I had gone into Dingwall Council Office and asked if they had information about paying Council Tax.
The charming council employee went and kindly photocopied the Council leaftet on Paying Council Tax.
They had none in the office which I thought odd as surely people would want to know this information.
I quickly read the leaflet and discovered it did not say WHY people had to pay Council Tax.
She phoned headquarters. Headquarters replied and she wrote on a piece of paper,
"Finance Act 1992"
[No mention if this was a Scottish Act.]
and told me I could find it on the Internet in the local library, free.
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I went outside the Council Office and was handing out copies of
UK Column http://www.ukcolumn.org/
to various people and asking if they paid Council Tax.
Most said "Yes." and I would say "WHY".
This was a difficult question for most.... many various answers were given and I enqiured if they had read,
"Finance Act 1992" None had..........
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I know that the Police know that I am "Political".