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Why don't you support the Protection of Freedoms Bill?
I know some of what is in the Protection of Freedoms Bill because I have been talking and writing about it for some time. Thank you for sending the draft to me. It seems I was correct that it concerns recovering parking charges from Registered Keepers. Clearly the answer is to have regulations that only allow certain companies to operate to and charge maximum fines. How else can private roads like ours operate a ticketing system? Repeating myself, it is clear that such a regulation could easily be extended to clamping. It is rogue clampers and rogue parkers as well as potentially rogue ticketers we have to remove. The regime you are envisaging will do none of these things.
Asked on 12 June 2011 by IM, via email
Answered by
Honest John
What you still fail to understand is that any law that give powers to clampers or to parking enforcement agencies is immediately open to abuse, as has been proven by what happened when clampers were licensed by the last government and is continually proven by the numbers of emails I receive every day complaining about the activities of members of the BPA. You cannot licence against "rogues", who will abuse any system giving them any form of control. That is currently the biggest money-spinner in the UK. Look what happened to London. TfL actually LOSES money on the Congestion Charge because the organisation it employs charges more than it hands back. So I will continue to fight against any laws and regulations that give dodgy people a licence to print money at everyone else's expense.
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