"Pickles warns rogue firms"

Half_way

I will be surprised to see anything happe, Mr Pickles appers to behte typicla politican all words and no action and in a few months he could be out of a job, and replaced with a BPA apologist

Guys_Dad

The_Deep wrote: »

Thank you Mr B, you beat me to it.

I am by no mean a pedant, nor a grammarian, but Freddie seems a very well grounded sort of chap, he writes a great deal of sense. Why, when it has been pointed out to him, does he continue to offend?

Is not repeatedly making the same mistake, and expecting a different result, one definition of insanity?

I am sure that EF is not insane, so why does he not address this issue?

I appreciate you were referring to his grammar and spelling, but I could not have phrased my views better on his distorted views on the church and Wonga. So, thanks for your earlier post and saving me the effort. :beer:

Marktheshark

Looks like its time to start filling Mr Pickles post bag up with horror stories.

Half_way

Anyuone know what happened to this, reported on Parking Prankster
http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/parkingeye-sue-parent-of-seriously-ill.html

ParkingEye sue parent of seriously ill child


ParkingEye have commenced action against the parent of a seriously ill child. As if the family do not have enough to worry about, they are being pursued for a substantial amount by the heartless money grabbers at ParkingEye.

In this latest case, the child was diagnosed with a serious illness and was undergoing treatment. However, she can become unwell quickly and require emergency help. On the day in question this happened and she was rushed to hospital on the advice of her doctor. The driver remained with the child throughout as she was distressed and was unaware that the parking rules had been transgressed until a postal notice was sent.

The hospital in question was Queens Hospital, Burton on Trent. This hospital has been previously reported as having misleading and confusing signage, plus a complex parking system designed to maximise income from transgressions.

HO87

Before we all spend far too much time speculating about what Mr P may or may not do let's look at the facts that we know:

1. There will shortly be a general election
2. Eric Pickles will be standing again but nevertheless has to be re-elected. Probably not a huge problem as IIRC he has one of the safest Tory seats.
3. There is no certainty that the Conservatives will be re-elected/secure a coalition
4. Even if the government is re-elected/forms a coalition/whatever PM's usually take the opportunity to re-shuffle their cabinets.
5. If we do end up with a Tory/whomever coalition given the horse-trading that went on last time around there is unlikely to be any real action until well into the summer.
6. The PPC wagon will continue to roll

If I was to speculate at all then it may be that the permanent under secretary of state at the DCLG has a reputation for being a little more decisive than his counterpart at the DfT. Who knows?

bazster

The Daily Wail further cranks up its bandwagon:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-2995823/Crackdown-cowboy-parking-firms-issuing-tickets-like-confetti-Eric-Pickles-takes-control.html

ManxRed

bazster wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-2995823/Crackdown-cowboy-parking-firms-issuing-tickets-like-confetti-Eric-Pickles-takes-control.html

Astonishing 'pig-ignorance' competition underway in the comments section at the bottom! :rotfl:

Coupon-mad

Yep , some idiot from Leeds thinks 2012 was the first time the DVLA sold our data!

LividLeeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, about 19 hours ago
''It was the Tories who gave access to DVLA records to these Cowboy firms with their Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, now they pretend that they have forgotten it. Wait they sell off your Tax records and your health records.''

HO87

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Yep , some idiot from Leeds thinks 2012 was the first time the DVLA sold our data!

LividLeeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, about 19 hours ago
''It was the Tories who gave access to DVLA records to these Cowboy firms with their Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, now they pretend that they have forgotten it. Wait they sell off your Tax records and your health records.''

Dealt with.

ManxRed

One of my favourites:

Its got so far out of control its now difficult to stop .Not one mention of the Police --what do they do these days.