Alice Loxton
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100 paperclips.
Can you envisage what that looks like?
Is this helpful?
Yeah.
Or a tree frog.
It's the same weight as a tree frog.
I'm always using tree frogs to measure out the flower.
But yeah, so it's 100 paperclips worth of tea.
Three and a half ounces costs £160.
So what does that tell you?
It's just very, very expensive.
No.
And of course, because it's taxed so highly and because there's such a big demand for it, people go outside the system and it creates this market for something that I know you'll love, Ben, smugglers.
You're a pirate at heart, I know.
Clergymen.
You can never trust them.
I've always said it.
So, no, you're right.
Well, it draws to the point that because of these high taxes, there was a huge amount of smuggling.
And to try and stamp down on that, the tax was slashed in 1784.