If someone else is paying, I'm having filet mignon.
I raise that point because the Standard thinks it is big news that having polled Londoners it discovered that said Londoners are in favour of other Londoners paying more for parking permits. Well knock me down with a feather, as we supposedly say in these parts.
The fig leaf covering this particular piece of envy is 'concern for the environment': "Almost 60 per cent of those interviewed think the cost of residents' parking permits should be linked to the environmental damage their cars cause".
I have long regarded residents' parking permit charges as being just another form of tax farming, and I imagine that sundry people have made the calculation that if other people are charged more, then there will a reduced shakedown applied to them. However, I fear the class warriors will be disappointed, as rather a lot of band G emission vehicles are distinctly pricey vehicles, and doubtless many of the owners can afford off street parking.
Still more alarmingly, 25% of those polled turn to extremists for the best policies to combat climate change, although I would be astonished if more than a handful has actually read any Green Party policy documents. Feel free to look them up (I'm not giving them the direct traffic), but trust me, they would result in economic collapse.
The fig leaf covering this particular piece of envy is 'concern for the environment': "Almost 60 per cent of those interviewed think the cost of residents' parking permits should be linked to the environmental damage their cars cause".
I have long regarded residents' parking permit charges as being just another form of tax farming, and I imagine that sundry people have made the calculation that if other people are charged more, then there will a reduced shakedown applied to them. However, I fear the class warriors will be disappointed, as rather a lot of band G emission vehicles are distinctly pricey vehicles, and doubtless many of the owners can afford off street parking.
Still more alarmingly, 25% of those polled turn to extremists for the best policies to combat climate change, although I would be astonished if more than a handful has actually read any Green Party policy documents. Feel free to look them up (I'm not giving them the direct traffic), but trust me, they would result in economic collapse.
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On parking permits I have said shouted and bawled myself horse and all I have left is a breathy
"....consulation lies...tax...water in the name of god ..water"
I have a drive , although I did buy a parking permit from westminster a couple of years ago (for a planing reason) over £100 to park outside my own house.
I have painter at the moment pulling his hair out having to keep changing meters
This reminds me of when my parents went to a museum in Greece, they were told that tourists had to pay an admission charge, but locals didn't. How widespread is this practice? At the end, my parents didn't pay because my mother is Greek anyway and my father told them he had fought in the war for them and refused on priciple.
Bonar-Law was born in Kingston, Canada, so there's another 20th century PM. Not entirely sure how the citizenship factor worked in the dyas of Empire however.
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try visiting "chinatown" wherever you are on a sunday (except china or HK) and see just what they get for about £10 and see what you get for seven times that amount.
Why is it that people talk such bollocks all the time . I was out with my bag of leaflets last night and all I hear is Iraq this and world peace that. Sometimes I`d like to say " Oh do fuckoff you give na mare of a flying fuck than I do " One dosen`t of course and so the illusion continues.
We are all worried about the enviroment. Yeah right. HA ,I don`t think so , and other venomous satire on contemporary attitudes
Good for Mr & Mrs Ellee. I really do not know to what extent differntial pricing goes on with museums and the like, but I do not think it goes on here.
AJH - Good point. I will investigate.
leaflets mania?
the ones you post in telephone booths? (+:
So what is your position mania?
what motivates you?
Yes leaflets are for my whoring sideline but bafflingly say Conservative Party on them . I may investigate a highly misleading picture of moi as the “new girl in town”. No more misleading than most .
Fave position is that of the working stiff arse aloft to accept the tax dispensation of Mac Broon in the fundament .
I am of course motivated entirely by a wish to get my fat face in the local paper and indulge in argy-bargy , with the lefties at the town hall. What else is there ?
I heard Kenneth Williams on just a minute once and Parsons ticked him off ." Why don`t we rename this show Kenny talks about himself ?" He said and with a nasal drool the great comic replied
"NNooooooo thaaat wooold be luverly"
That is my philosophy
Same here I fuckin love blowing my own trumpet
as does this chap...
http://www.heaven666.org/self-blow-job-2366.php
Peter, I have been to Chinatown a few times, but never compared bills. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
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