Teh One Who Knocks
11-09-2015, 12:11 PM
Nicholas Reilly for Metro.co.uk
http://i.imgur.com/DYfqOCa.jpg
Exotic meats, edible cake decorations, Jaffa cakes and crocodile meat.
They’re just a few of the items not considered to be a luxury by the government – under bizarre VAT rulings.
But tampons, an essential item if ever there was one – are considered to be luxury items, and Charlie Edge isn’t having any of it.
She waited until she was on her period, before standing outside parliament in light trousers – allowing her menstrual bloods to seep through her clothing.
In a Facebook post of the striking images, she wrote: ‘They’re not luxury items, anymore than Jaffa cakes, edible cake decorations, exotic meats, or any other number of things currently not taxed as luxury items.’
http://i.imgur.com/wb5SK3k.jpg
Quite.
She also received a fair amount of backlash during the protest, from people who told her it was ‘gross’ and believed there was a ‘better way to get your point across.’
To which she gave this response … which succinctly sums it all up.
http://i.imgur.com/DYfqOCa.jpg
Exotic meats, edible cake decorations, Jaffa cakes and crocodile meat.
They’re just a few of the items not considered to be a luxury by the government – under bizarre VAT rulings.
But tampons, an essential item if ever there was one – are considered to be luxury items, and Charlie Edge isn’t having any of it.
She waited until she was on her period, before standing outside parliament in light trousers – allowing her menstrual bloods to seep through her clothing.
In a Facebook post of the striking images, she wrote: ‘They’re not luxury items, anymore than Jaffa cakes, edible cake decorations, exotic meats, or any other number of things currently not taxed as luxury items.’
http://i.imgur.com/wb5SK3k.jpg
Quite.
She also received a fair amount of backlash during the protest, from people who told her it was ‘gross’ and believed there was a ‘better way to get your point across.’
To which she gave this response … which succinctly sums it all up.