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Barry Beavis takes the BPA to task
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The BPA has published a load of blather on its website and one Barry Beavis has commented on it:
http://www.britishparking.co.uk/News/alignment-in-parking-after-all
The long-and-short of it is that the BPA agrees with Barry Beavis that the government should regulate the private parking "industry" and do away with multiple codes of practice, multiple appeals services and so forth.
Barry retorts that until not long ago there was just one standard-setting body, one Code of Practice and one appeals service: the BPA. That this has not worked out, says Barry, is entirely down to the BPA's failure to enforce its own CoP:
The failure of the BPA to enforce to Code of Practice is where the biggest problem sits. Had the BPA ensured all charges were a GPEoL or that all members of the BPA acted in a professional and reasonable way, as well as the rest of the Code, all would be well in the private parking sector.
In other words, Barry is accusing the BPA of hypocrisy. Surely not?
http://www.britishparking.co.uk/News/alignment-in-parking-after-all
The long-and-short of it is that the BPA agrees with Barry Beavis that the government should regulate the private parking "industry" and do away with multiple codes of practice, multiple appeals services and so forth.
Barry retorts that until not long ago there was just one standard-setting body, one Code of Practice and one appeals service: the BPA. That this has not worked out, says Barry, is entirely down to the BPA's failure to enforce its own CoP:
The failure of the BPA to enforce to Code of Practice is where the biggest problem sits. Had the BPA ensured all charges were a GPEoL or that all members of the BPA acted in a professional and reasonable way, as well as the rest of the Code, all would be well in the private parking sector.
In other words, Barry is accusing the BPA of hypocrisy. Surely not?
Je suis Charlie.
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When I asked the BPA to investigate a code breach they seemed to be under the impression that I was asking them to get Town & Country to cancel my wife's ticket at ASDA. I pointed out their error to them but they never replied.You never know how far you can go until you go too far.0
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Funnily enough, they did the same with me when i reported TCP/Not so smart to them.
I never did get a reply from them, even after i got TCP/Not so smart suspended from accessing the DVLA database.0 -
He's right. The DVLA are also complicit in all this in allowing the BPA to police their own members, which in turn polices the suitability of access to RK data for which the DVLA is the Data Controller, which is absurd and scandalous.
If the DVLA are happy to allow companies which couldn't give a stuff about following the CoP to continue accessing data then they are part of the problem.Je Suis Cecil.0 -
DVLA: "We do not regulate AOS members the BPA/IPC do"!
BPA/IPC : "We are not a regulatory body"!
Consumers: "Stuffed by both".0 -
Interview on BBC Breakfast Time right now.0
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Geez, Hurley is a runty little gobsh|te.Je suis Charlie.0
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Geez, Hurley is a runty little gobsh|te.
Missed it!
I don't think BBC Breakfast is 'catch-upable' on iPlayer, unless anyone knows a get-around?Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .
I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.
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Barry and the IPC (think Hurly) were also on Radio 5, that sounds like it was pretty much the same thing. That one should be linkable sometime later.Free/impartial debt advice: National Debtline | StepChange Debt Charity | Find your local CAB
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[STRIKE]Time limited TV link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcone?rewindTo=current
Rewind to 7:40 am[/STRIKE]
No longer works now Breakfast is off air.Free/impartial debt advice: National Debtline | StepChange Debt Charity | Find your local CAB
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