Idiot wrote:
We hope anyone affected still had a lovely Christmas.
Lying, patronising, parasitic scum.
No way am I ever going to park in one of NCP's car parks. Even if this racket stops, I'm still not going to. If only all drivers knew what they were up to, their profits would be rightly decimated.
It's time that councils and contractors were penalised for issuing incorrect tickets. At the moment there's no disincentive: at best, the victim is intimidated into paying despite the ticket being invalid, and at worst, they've only wasted the cost of printing the ticket, whereas the victim still has to mess around to sort it out. Perhaps if the victim had to be automatically compensated for each incorrect ticket, the percentage of tickets that were valid would become remarkably high all of a sudden. Money is the only language they understand.
Of course, that's the wider problem: council parking enforcement is invariably about money and never about keeping traffic moving or reserving spaces for those who are entitled to them. It'll never be fair until it's changed. And yet, incredibly, the government is talking about letting councils adjudicate on appeals. So now they'll get to decide on where yellow lines go, make money from their enforcement, and adjudicate on appeals. Might as well just give them our cashpoint cards and pin numbers. Once again the motorist is regarded as fair game.
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Paul Smith: a legend.
"The freedom provided by the motor vehicle is not universally applauded, however: there are those who resent the loss of state control over individual choice that the car represents. Such people rarely admit their prejudices openly; instead, they make false or exaggerated claims about the adverse effects of road transport in order to justify calls for higher taxation or restrictions on mobility." (
Conservative Way Forward:
Stop The War Against Drivers)
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