BPA Facebook Site, Please add your comments etc on their response to FOI figures etc

peter_the_piper

Just waiting to see what they say when asked if they have contacted the relative MP's saying that they grossly overestimated the numbers. They have admitted the were wrong, on facebook, but have they elsewhere?

WageSlave1_2

esmerobbo wrote: »

"The BPA neither misled the government not are they an 'old boys club'. There are in fact as many women working in the parking profession as men"

Yeah, I saw that too. Is the BPA just unable to tell the truth about anything? Perhaps 100% non-stop bullsh*t about anything and everything is all part of the 'Masterplan'.

I'm pretty sure that 99% of all clampers are men. Possibly you might get some female ticketers but to be honest I've not seen any. Even proper CEOs tend to be male these days, I think.

Perhaps another FOIA request might be made to the SIA about clampers and to a few London and non-London boroughs asking about the gender (and racial/ethnic background?) of the CEO ticketers that their subcontractors have working for them. No reason to suspect that the ticketers employed by PPCs would have any different proportion of males v females than the CEOs employed by NSL or whoever, is there?

peter_the_piper

Reply.
""We are in constant contact with government departments and officials and have been for a number of years. Those that need to know are aware that these figures were at best estimates. We're not the first to make a mistake and wont be the last. As for credibility, I doubt we've ever been seen that way by the public and probably never will""

Thats a NO then.

peter_the_piper

They will be coming back (maybe) when they have (thought up) an answer.

esmerobbo

165 AOS members so at the low end it would be 218 claims at at the other end 545 claims per member. Given most of the big boys don't issue claims I think the office cleaner must have dreamt up that estimation.

HO87

dacouch wrote: »

Why thanks, thought they might take it down, seems they have worked out the ethos of Wiki

I think not. They are just concerned that the page will be deleted and they'd lose the entry (they perhaps think confers some form of legitimacy) - I wouldn't be surprised if it was deleted anyway as it hardly meets the notability criteria - having been warned on numerous occasions by editors that the page was not the BPA's but a page about the BPA.

The article still requires a degree of editing and I'd be tempted to do it myself but I fear it will be for nought, for the above reason. There are other perfectly legitimate ways of dealing with any Wiki presence the BPA or other PPC-inclined body might be tempted to put up.

Plushchris

LOL just managed to post a comment on the "How not to park your car" photo..

Lets time how long it stays there for..

andy13

More comments there- Not parked in a marked bay- Owner left site lol. There was a clamper on the site moaning how he and his colleagues were ending up on the dole in October. :rotfl:

HardWorker2010_2

andy13 wrote: »

More comments there- Not parked in a marked bay- Owner left site lol. There was a clamper on the site moaning how he and his colleagues were ending up on the dole in October. :rotfl:

Shame. I hope they all end up on the street.

ManxRed

andy13 wrote: »

There was a clamper on the site moaning how he and his colleagues were ending up on the dole in October. :rotfl:

Good Lord, I nearly shed a tear there.