Mr Turner said the government needed to drop the VAT addition and "put it to bed".
Downhill from there, at the crossroads between the turnoff to the Al Aqsa Mosque and the one to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, a man named Mohammed rolls chickpea balls at an impressive clip, dropping them into giant vats of bubbling oils to make falafel.
Toto looks as though he's been dropped in a vat of black tar, and harmed in the process — Dorothy pushes him in a red dolly, his paralysis far from the scampering, yipping Hollywood Toto.
The bodies of suspected spies are often displayed publicly, and some people are said to have been killed by being dropped into a vat of acid.
These days, I'd be far happier to be dropped in a vat of Yorkshire Tea than one containing rum punch.
A temporary 2.5% drop in VAT is irrelevant when high street prices are being cut by 20%.
Tesco seems to think that the 1% drop, excluding VAT and petrol, is the one that is relevant.
The Office for National Statistics said the increase was mainly due to the effects of last year's sharp falls in oil prices dropping out of the figures and VAT rising back to 17.5%, from 15%.
But in the UK, tax authorities published a briefing on the taxing of Bitcoins, dropping plans to charge value added tax (VAT), or sales tax, on Bitcoin trading.
