BPA Parking Awards and PARKEX 2010 - meet your fave ppc!

anewman

Yeah the BPA is essentially a club for scamsters. They're not a Government or independent organisation in anyway.

trisontana

anewman wrote: »

Yeah the BPA is essentially a club for scamsters. They're not a Government or independent organisation in anyway.

Just like the Thieves Guild in the Terry Pratchett books !

peter_the_piper

trisontana wrote: »

Just like the Thieves Guild in the Terry Pratchett books !

Yes, at least these were honest thieves, everybody knew they were after your money. PPC's hide behind a quasi legitimate front and a lot of the public think they are at fault.

bromsgrovebarry

We need to keep an eye on the scammers, the government wants all the tax revenue it can get and I can see some sort of deal to enable PPCs to make their charges legitimate for a nice cut of the fees. Why just settle for £2.50 per mugging when there is a lot more to be had? Government and PPCs have a similar code of ethics.

Coupon-mad

bromsgrovebarry wrote: »

We need to keep an eye on the scammers, the government wants all the tax revenue it can get and I can see some sort of deal to enable PPCs to make their charges legitimate for a nice cut of the fees. Why just settle for £2.50 per mugging when there is a lot more to be had? Government and PPCs have a similar code of ethics.

I think it would be useful if someone could get to the BPA lunch/awards and record any speeches and/or note down anything interesting said.

I'm sure discussions are going on behind the scenes to do with the proposed regulations on clamping, and the BPA are involved.

They could easily step out of line at this sort of old-boys' lunch and if that was then to be leaked to the right newspapers it could blow BPA out of the reckoning as far as being connected to the independent appeals process is concerned.

I think we should do all we can to stop that 'independent appeals' process being connected in ANY way to the BPA or the SIA, personally. Both are sooooo far on the side of the clampers that they are hopelessly biased.

The tapes of anything useful could lead to a 'clampgate' article in the press!:rotfl:

carus9000

at least they are keeping up their trash image with getting a host who is as trash as them,

never liked that prat like him even less now.

never mind suppose when your career isnt going anywhere you will take just about any degradeing work when you can get it.


shame on you culshaw:rotfl:

bromsgrovebarry

If his career sinks any lower he will be joining Ash handing out baskets in Poundland.

Coupon-mad

carus9000 wrote: »

at least they are keeping up their trash image with getting a host who is as trash as them,

never liked that prat like him even less now.

never mind suppose when your career isnt going anywhere you will take just about any degradeing work when you can get it.

shame on you culshaw:rotfl:

Just found the Parking Review article about John Culshaw's 'contribution' in handing out these trophies at the British Parking Awards:

http://www.parkingreview.co.uk/news/?ID=2822&StartRow=1

Notice that he hilariously called the trophies 'crystal Fixed Penalty Notices' (wot, like those unrelated notices that the Police issue then, nowt to do with the Penalty Charge Notices these self-congratulatory idiots on a jolly at the BPA Awards actually deal in?).

And the BPA got an award as well (yawn):

'The first trophy was a surprise award for the British Parking Association, presented by Parking Review. The Outstanding Contribution Award marked the association’s 40 years of serving the parking sector and its recent work in professionalising the sector via initiatives such as the Safer Parking Scheme, Institute of Parking Professionals, Sector Skills Strategy and Approved Operators Scheme.'

It's also amusing to see many of the Local Authorities mentioned on here regularly as issuing dodgy PCNs and not bothering about whether their lines and sign comply, getting a big pat on the back and a trophy for their sad little office.

What was the point?

Coblcris

Self aggrandisement and mere propaganda perhaps.

Painters of illusion.

bromsgrovebarry

So we have the Institute of Parking Professionals eh? My nomination for oxymoron of the year!