The Mail gets dirty

Nodding_Donkey

Well I see LT is continuing with his MO of posting complete rubbish.

Look at his posting history and then ask yourself why you are bothering replying to an obvious troll?

The_Deep

There must be thousands of sob stories out there, the DM could keep this up for years at very little cost.

Righteous indignation will swell amongst the sheeple, and there will be rioting in the streets, nonogenerians will be kettled and a few shot by armed police who mistake their elbow crutches for Kalishnokovs.

In the meantime the opportunistic troughers in Westminster, especially those in marginal seats, will jump on the bandwagon, promise the earth and carry on enjoying their tax free allowances. Expect photo opportunities in a Lidl car park near you.

With a bit of luck, Trading Standards Departments will take a company to court, but will not have the funds to prosecute robustly enough, and the QC that the PPC will put against them will get the client off on a technicality. Cars bearing the Mail's bright yellow stickers will no doubt come in for particular attention from the PPCs.

Still, it makes a change from marathon runners claiming DLA.

Umkomaas

The Yellow sticker in its present format is, in my view, counter-productive. If the DM think that will scare off a ticket drone and prevent him earning his bonus, or that somehow ANPRs will look the other way when they spot a Yellow peril, the are naive in the extreme.

If the sticker just highlighted the status of PCNs and linked motorists to the internet fight back forums it would have a far more strategic and beneficial effect.

I think we're going to see Yellow stickers with a Yellow sticky stuck alongside it. Trophy PCN opportunities for the drones.

atilla

bargepole wrote: »

The point here is that the Mail online edition actually has the highest traffic numbers of any national newspaper.


Agreed that some of their articles are complete non-stories, and some of their staunchly Tory editorial rhetoric is utter garbage, but they did play a big part in the campaign to persuade Ministers to outlaw private clamping.


The current series of articles is, unlike most churnalism efforts in many papers, being properly researched with a team of people on the case. One of them took a drive to somewhere north of Watford yesterday to photograph the house of one of the PPC fat cats.


More to come tomorrow, Friday, and the big one on Saturday.

Out of interest, any idea what this was going to be?

Can't seem to find anything from the DM today.

Redx

atilla wrote: »

Out of interest, any idea what this was going to be?

Can't seem to find anything from the DM today.

see the eric pickles thread , they dont come much bigger