This story in the news feed reports on how shop traders in the town of Crewkerne in Somerset are having their businesses destroyed by the local council.<\/p>\n
There is a 30-minute parking limit – stupidly short in the first place – and yet wardens are parking for up to TWO HOURS while they hurry meet their quotas and try to ticket as many people as possible each day.<\/p>\n
The Somerset County Council appears to be staffed by the usual crop of idiots. A spokeswoman says that wardens are \u201cfollowing the rules\u201d.<\/p>\n
Yes. That would be the rules set by the council,<\/strong> and which the council could change in the blink of an eye if it so wished. But it doesn\u2019t<\/strong> want to change the rules, because that would cut revenue from PCNs. She adds:<\/p>\n There are circumstances where wardens are permitted to park in limited waiting zones and other restricted areas in order to carry out their duties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So in other words, one rule for the council, and another for the common people. She doesn\u2019t explain how the dire consequences of a member of the public overstaying their time is in any way less dangerous or inconsiderate than a spotty-faced oik employed by them would be.<\/p>\n It was exactly the same up this way when the Nottinghamshire County Council took over responsibility for parking tickets. The day it began, wardens were queued up like a pack of hyenas outside the now-defunct West Bridgford test centre trying to ticket people using the test centre.<\/p>\n Even today, most of them ride around on L-plated scooters as they scour every side road and alleyway, and they frequently ride like complete lunatics. I suppose you have to if you\u2019re going to meet your weekly quota for people who have to be screwed out of their money on behalf of the Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This story in the news feed reports on how shop traders in the town of Crewkerne in Somerset are having their businesses destroyed by the local council. There is a 30-minute parking limit – stupidly short in the first place – and yet wardens are parking for up to TWO HOURS while they hurry meet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,87,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t