hairyben wrote:
Ziltro wrote:
BottyBurp wrote:
Yep - unfortunately I'm working down in London all this week, so won't be able to get to the polls...
Aww shame! Voting is such fun!
I've been and done it now. Apparently a lot of people in my road have voted. Maybe that's what happens if you put a parking restriction bay over people's driveways and charge £30 per year + £5 every time you change vehicle.
I can't see how everyone would be voting for the current mob, it's not like they've done anything good in or near our road. Here's hoping.
don't hope for too much. labour were booted from camden the other year mainly cos libdem promised to cut back on the stazi parking enforcement.
since then they've increased parking toll tax revenue to £43mill.
they'll issue tickets within seconds of the time elapsing- you guys complain that 35mph in a 30 zone is an unfair slip allowance, work out the % of error for ten seconds over 4 hours...
edit: my calculations show it's equivalent to being done for 30.02 mph...
No politician is overly concerned with real issues. I am still locked in antlers over daft cycle lanes here for example.
Nonsense lanes which create confusion and danger for driver and cyclist alike as neither know who has the right and cannot negotiate and communicate properly with each other as a result
It creates bad feeling and resentments as well
But are they concerned.. or even "bovvered"
Nope.. it's all about some vague target which "proves they are promoting cycling and safety on the roads" - and the stats prove otherwise
as we know to our cost.
I recall a play by Jean Paul Sartre. I did study French to a higher level than O Level and did an A Level alongside my normal subjects as required by all Faculties of Medicine as I rather liked the language.
We had to study 4 pieces of Literature in them days. Madame Bovary .. Maupassant's short stories .. St Exupery "Vol de Nuit./Petit Prince" - Camus' "Caligula" and Sarte's "Les Mains Sales" - which was about the ends justifying the means .. with a suspicion of hot blooded jealous passion. But the victim .. Hoederer who was murdered by Hugo (whose wife was infatuated by this over-sexed poltician
) did say that politics involved "getting one's hands dirty if one was to achieve the intended outcome" I do suspect the great French philospher of existentialism was quite accurate and speaking through this character he created in his play - which I have seen on stage in Paris and recall feeling a sense of disturbance akin to the the "Yes Minister"
In this I share some education with my wife
who studied these works as a school girl in Switzerland.
But back to the OP.. parking in our area can be a nightmare - particularly in the season and bank holidays.
I do sympathise - they are rather draconian and as Wildy says .. we tend to use bicycles or motorbike in her case .. or shop close to closing time
but we have the advantage of being local after all
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