The BPA's Monday Mendacity: It's all someone else's fault

bazster

http://www.britishparking.co.uk/Blog/monday-musing-reaching-the-standard-for-a-better-parking-future/779

Apparently it's all the fault of (i) the government for refusing to regulate the parking sector (translation: the government's refusal to force all parking companies to join the BPA) and (ii) the IPC for sparking a "race to the bottom" (which should be a pretty brief race given how near to the bottom the BPA already was when the IPC oozed in beneath them).

Evidently it has entirely eluded the BPA Ltd. that (i) the government expected them to regulate the "sector" (a task at which the BPA has signally failed) and that (ii) the BPA's members were already a bunch of lowlife crooks sticking two fingers up to the BPA, the government and the public long before the IPC was dreamed of.

I loved this bit:

We launched POPLA, the first independent appeals service, providing free and fair adjudication for motorists, and closed the loophole on keeper liability.

Only in the Kafkaesque world inhabited by the private parking "industry" could the age-old principle of privity of contract be regarded as a "loophole" that needed closing.

trisontana

How about "We brought the level of charge down to a maximum of £100 for parking charge notices"?

An artificial figure that bears no relationship to any actual loss that's been suffered. Further, who has actually suffered this "loss", the landowner or the PPC? Because of this action you now get PPCs trotting out the mantra "we can charge you a £100 because the BPA has told us it's OK"

Zero_Gravitas

I'd already posted about this "Monday Musing" that quite apart from anything else, it would appear that the mass migrations to the IPC in search of a less independent appeals service has the BPA rattled...

HO87

I've never been convinced that the so-called Monday Musings were anything other than a renegade inmate of Stuart House's attempt at a reverse bullshine bingo.

fisherjim

"The BPA is stepping up to that plate and makes an offer to work with government......"

And the fact that the government will probably take them up on that offer is when the whole thing goes down hill yet again!

Hot_Bring

I note they no longer allow comments on their Monday Manures !

trisontana

Perhaps the BPA was uncomfortable with the many home truths posted on there.

The_Deep

Evidently it has entirely eluded the BPA Ltd. that (i) the government expected them to regulate the "sector"

Rather like the B.M.A. and the Bar Council perhaps.

salmosalaris

So the BPA Ltd should stand up to the plate and discipline its members when they are aware of repeated bad practice .
If they are serious about "driving up standards" then they are in a position to actually do something about it to counter the claims of empty rhetoric , turning a blind eye and sweeping under an already bumpy Hayward's Heath carpet .

ampersand

And this: 'But our calls have seemingly fallen on deaf ears.'

Surely not? For a particularly bad case of lost Hearing yesterday, read errrcantthinkofone.

lescm19

Lots of politician soundbite speak in evidence, very little substance.