MSE News: NCP punishes Londoners with Olympics car park price hike

HO87

Please do not get me started about the Rip-off Olympics. It has been little more than an excuse to financially rape this country and that has been as plain as a pikestaff from Day 1. The G4S debacle is one example and NCP shamelessly lining its coffers is simply another. There are plenty of others - look at some of the cheaper overnight-style hotel websites for starters). The people who have my sympathy are the Eastenders who are going to suffer all the b*llsh*t inconvenience and the athletes - both able-bodied and those competing at the Paralympics - on the backs of whom some of these companies are making an absolute killing.

I don't know about being proud? This country should be hanging its head in shame at allowing the state to connive at pouring huge quantities of public money into increasingly fewer private pockets (most of which are already bulging to bursting point) and yet we scream for more?[/rant mode]

Taadaa

Use of the word 'punishing' is a bit loaded isn't it? They aren't punishing anyone for living in London, they are jumping on the Olympic bandwagon to make extra cash. As are ordinary people who are going on holiday and renting their flats out. It is abhorrent and unscrupulous behaviour, but it isn't some form of retribution.

Kernel_Sanders

She writes It is raising prices at the 38 of its 104 London car parks that are closest to Olympic venues.
Why would the increase be 100% at Shepherd's Bush and only 4% at Knightsbridge when Knightsbridge is nearer to east London than Shepherd's Bush?

ManxRed

She's probably got the map upside down.








**cowers in corner and waits for female backlash**

bargepole

HO87 wrote: »

Please do not get me started about the Rip-off Olympics. It has been little more than an excuse to financially rape this country and that has been as plain as a pikestaff from Day 1. The G4S debacle is one example and NCP shamelessly lining its coffers is simply another. There are plenty of others - look at some of the cheaper overnight-style hotel websites for starters). The people who have my sympathy are the Eastenders who are going to suffer all the b*llsh*t inconvenience and the athletes - both able-bodied and those competing at the Paralympics - on the backs of whom some of these companies are making an absolute killing.

I don't know about being proud? This country should be hanging its head in shame at allowing the state to connive at pouring huge quantities of public money into increasingly fewer private pockets (most of which are already bulging to bursting point) and yet we scream for more?[/rant mode]

I was in agreement with all this until about 10 minutes ago, when I heard some jumped-up American nobody criticising our organisation of the Games.

We might curse and moan internally, but I'm damned if I'll tolerate some johhny-come-lately yankeedoodle coming here as a guest of our Prime Minister and sneering.

So, Mr so-called Romney, why don't you Foxtrot Romeo Oscar back to Nebraska, Saskatchewan, Poughkeepsie or some equally ridiculously-named place, and enjoy a nice cup of tea US-style - 25 cases of leaf tea immersed in 240,000,000 gallons of cold salt water.

Oh, and we all really hope your $millions DON'T buy you the Presidency later this year.

Paulgonnabedebtfree

Do these vermin do their training at Santander's head office or what?