How To Milk A Motorist And Spot A Yellow Menace To Children
CAN you milk a motorist?
The Mail says you can. And in “MILKING THE MOTORIST”, the paper says that one in three motorists is caught each year by parking wardens or speed cameras.
David Ruffley, the Tory police spokesman, says: “This is another staggering statistic that tells us a lot about the surveillance society.”
The Mail says it’s all about raising money from “soft targets”, those people in metal cars. It is an “outrageous abuse of power”.
Better still, it’s a chance for the Sun to use the pun “GRAND THEFT AUTO”.
Having made mention of terrorists, cancer and global warming, the paper’s Tim Spanton says Government sees the motorist as Public Enemy No.1. (Picture: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
The Government takes 67.8p in ever £1.10 litre of petrol.
And on top of the road taxes, congestion charge, parking fines (“£20 for every man, woman and child in Britain”) and speed cameras there’s the “SPY IN THE HAT”.
Her name’s Raj Kumaria, pictured in the Mail holding a huge “STOP” sign on a stick – a stick that also features the shadowy form of two children and a built in camera.
Thankfully, this menace can be easily identified on account of her huge yellow coat, yellow gloves and black baseball cap.
But she is not alone. These people work in gangs. The Mirror spots one called Val wearing dark glasses and taking film of drivers near a school. It is feared that some drivers have children in their cars.
It’s nothing short of sick.
And it’s high time this Government spared the motorist and went after the real criminals…
Posted: 1st, May 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids Comments (18) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 am
i got off one a while ago by writing in that the warden was a scruffy twat with no uniform that looked like a car thief and that i was scared to go near him till he’d gone.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
they missed out the best bit, where they’re introducing the lollicam.
sounds like something for filming schoolgirls with rather than road raging motorists.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Thanks Nosey!
I will write and then grovel to my earning half for funds to get me off.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
OMG - JustLooking
BTW you are allowed to stop in a yellow box - as long as your exit is clear.
Write and grovel. Something like 80% of people who object get off!!
May 1st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
The DM figure is skewed by my offences.
Just had an absolute bumper week: ( apparently ) stopping in a yellow box ( 120 ), parked in pay & display instead of resident by mistake ( 40) & skip put in the wrong place despite valid permit ( ?).
Never mind, I’ve got the 25 per day congestion charge to look forward to!
May 1st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Ah but mic - its for enviromental reasons
what everyone fails to realise is that the carbon footprint ( whoever came up with that phrase ought to be shot) of manufacturing a new car is so huge that the enviromnet would be better if we all continued to drive our ancient gas guzzlers.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:07 pm
This road tax, or VED (strictly speaking), is a real bummer. It makes as much sense as having an arse pocket in a vest.
I’ve just swapped Mrs Mic’s 13 year old Shogun (2.8litre, size of a bloody tank, 14mpg, belches diesel fumes for fun) for a newer Nissan X-trail (2.2litre, similar size to my Mondeo, 30mpg, clean and efficient), and now have to pay £40 a year more in tax. And that’s before this latest round of robbery cuts in. Madness.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I’ve just bought a green car for Mrs Mic.
Mine’s blue though ; that’ll cost a bit.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Mic - I heard that the Official Chelsea fan club is offering an all in one day trip for a very reasonable £800. I’ll have five of those shall I ??
May 1st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I forgot to mention council tax, stamp duty (whatever is that for).
Did you notice the latest vehicle tax they are bringing in?? The one that was fanfared by ‘No car tax for those who buy green cars? ‘
May 1st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Mic - agreed.
What i find most worrying though is that the UK’s economic policy is based on the premis that Interest Rates have some control over inflation.
This has not been true for a while now. But they haven’t recognised this fact.
IMO - there is no longer a way to control inflation as all the utilities, banks etc are out to make great big profits (which is their job) and they have no interest in the effect on the economy.
I don’t know what the answer is - but am sick to death of stealth taxes.
lets scrap VAT, fuel tax, insurance tax, death duty, even capital gains tax, and have a base rate tax on earnings of 30% (or so).
Everything would be clearer above board and the money saved by scraping all the departments that deal with these would fund Free school buses for all uk children.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
“90r…” ?????
wtf! Should be “(or …..”.
M and A
changed it for you Mic, now please don’t make me look at that piccie again….
May 1st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Hi nosey.
It really pisses me off when the smug gits waffle on about the inflation rate being the control value for pay rises.
It’s a meaningless percentage figure to the average bloke (or blokess) in the street, but a usefully low figure for those wishing to be politically expedient with their announcements.
An independant valuation of ‘cost of living’ would be an interesting figure to see; and not one based on this bullshit ‘basket of goods’ that often gets touted around.
…at least I can save by not having to but a ticket to Moscow for the final.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Mic - think yourself lucky.
Our wonderful government are currently negotiating a three year inflation busting pay deal for me.
Sod the fact that council tax is up 20%, fuel prices through the roof, elec & gas due to go up by 30% by the summer and food is dearer.
Nice to know that lifes essentials (digital radios / ipods/ computer gaming) is coming down in cost. I’ll need something to spend my ’spare’ cash on!
May 1st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
And there was li’l ol’ me thinking that the government WERE the real criminals, as far as motorists were concerned.
Or taxpayers, or home owners, or anyone wishing to heat their home in this bloody country…..
May 1st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
hmm, yes the spy in the hat. The fact that this is to stop road rage incidents against school crossing patrols doesn’t seem to be mentioned.
The whole speeding fine issue winds me up somewhat because whatever you think of it you are breaking the law if you are speeding, yes we all do it (even me on my lowly scooter) but the law is the law. The argument seems to be that you are only breaking the law a little bit and in a way that doesn’t hurt anybody (unless you run someone over of course), ok, if I climbed into the reporters house through an open window looked through their things, tidied up and then climbed back out the open window again they would be screaming blue bloody murder wanting me to be banged up for life. Why, I only broke the law a little but and didn’t hurt them did I.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Is this an opportunity for me to say
‘School buses’ again?
May 1st, 2008 at 11:43 am
thats very scary when you click back from the Forums!