HM Customs and Excise

The woman opens her case, and all of her pants fall out.

And so, therefore, all the greatest officers of Her Majesty's Customs and Excise pounce upon this poor little lady to help her, and therefore the smuggler gets through.

I mean, it's a genius idea.

I can't believe we ever catch anyone.

Knock on the office door.

We're the bailiffs from Customs and Excise.

We've, uh, you haven't paid your VAT bill, and we're here to take away your computers and your office furniture.

Wow.

...

I'm talking from, from, from your Met police to Customs and Excise.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, all of the people I used, I mean, I've collaborated with all kinds of people, including the National Rifle Association and the Colt Firearms Factory in America.

Customs and excise, you know, the police, criminals even.

It adds another dimension to the work.

There's a polarity in the work.

the non-art world and the art world.

Because an awful lot of the people I work with are very creative.

I mean, like the Customs and Excise, you know, they have to stop people smuggling drugs into a country, right? So they look at everything, every material, they hold up a glass of water and say, where within this glass of water is there space for concealment?

Yeah.

I wouldn't want to start beef with him because he's still quite powerful, but physically and in terms of his influence.

I don't know if you might not remember this, you might have been too young, but there was a thing that he did once on That's Life where he was talking, it was a song that he did, and it was about people who have got a statutory right of entry into your home, such as the gas meter man or HM Customs and Excise,

people

who can come into your