COUNCILS,TAXMEN, DWP, SOCIAL WORK, PARKING SCAMS AND BAILIFF'S

RACIST TAXMEN IN NORTHERN IRELAND UNDER-PAID CHILD BENEFIT TO NON-NATIONALS
northerne ireland taxman Seven Revenue and Customs staff have been sacked for racially abusing non-nationals by paying them less child benefit than they were entitled to, it was revealed today.

Two others quit when an investigation was launched earlier this year. All nine were based at the HM Revenue and Customs contact centre in Belfast. It is understood they tampered with computer records so that claimants from ethnic minority backgrounds living in various parts of the UK were paid less than they were entitled to. All have now been fully reimbursed.

The resignations and sackings of the nine men followed an internal investigation into allegations of racially-motivated conduct going back to the second half of last year. Dave Hartnett, permanent secretary for tax at HM Revenue and Customs, said the department operates a zero-tolerance policy on racial discrimination. He added: 'The vast majority of our people are entirely professional and one of the ways we support that professionalism is by taking decisive action against the tiny minority who let us all down by falling far short of those standards.'

The HMRC contact centre is based at Dorchester House, close to the city centre in Belfast's Great Victoria Street. The investigation started in January when a complaint was lodged by somebody who claimed their records had been changed. A detailed audit was carried out and the inquiry then widened to take in another 16 cases. It is understood the nine men were suspended once the investigation started, but two quit immediately.

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    QATARI ROYALS LUXURY CARS GET CLAMPED IN LONDON VIDEO
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    PAY BY PHONE PARKING CHARGES ANOTHER MASSIVE NWO SCAM
    'NO TO WESTMINSTER COUNCIL PARKING CHARGES ' EXPOSURES

    Cracks appearing in the veneer?
    In exposing the Mafia-esque leadership styles of Robert Davis and that most-admirable, and pillar of the community, WCC Council Leader Colin Barrow, new revelations have come to light regarding the latter. As previously mentioned, the erstwhile Colin, whilst implementing a cull of WCC staff, had no qualms in bankrupting one of his own companies, Eiger Capital owing WCC £19,000 in unpaid business rates.

    It now transpires that multi-millionaire Colin has been demanding and receiving by all accounts £57,000 to home school his autistic son, whilst the WCC maximum for any resident is £35,000. While any parent wants the best for their child, there are a number of people out there with a genuine need for financial assistance who are struggling to get allowances from the Council’s limited purse. Colin however would seem to have no qualms in tapping Council funds for £22,000 over the maximum rather than dipping into his personal wealth. "Isn't that benefit-fraud & stealing from the public purse?" you ask.

    Can't be! - why? - Because WCC Director of Customer Services, Dr Leith Penny stated to the press that WCC would "not hesitate to prosecute" anyone "stealing from the public purse" (whilst referring to supposed vandalism of road-signs). No sign of Colin being prosecuted from what we can see!!

    Advice to Colin:- perhaps if you didn't waste so much personal money on lawyers' letters threatening to sue anyone who exposes your misadventures you'd have more money to cover your son’s special-needs education and not over-burden the Westminster rate-payers. Just a suggestion.

    Henchman Gilchrist tries to cover up potentially disastrous fallout from HIS policy-making.

    Looks like silver-tongued, Verrus-salesman-of-the-year, 3-times separated Alistair Gilchrist has had to admit to all those other Councils that he lured into Partnerships- in-Parking that his megalomaniac aspirations may land them all equally in the dock.

    The EU Commissioners give their verdict next month as to whether or not the EU will sue the British Government (since they are the Member State) over Alistair rigging of the Pay-By-Phone contract award to Verrus, and its breaching of EU rules on framework contracts, which prohibit other parties accessing such a contract unless they were identified when the contract was signed. And why did Alistair have to admit it?

    Apparently, some rotter from within our ranks alerted all the PIP partners in advance of last weeks PIP meeting. And Alistair's attempt to cover it up?

    Well, they are only "allegations", and they shouldn't take any notice of what a bunch of bikers tell them! Note to Alistair:- if these "allegations" were as groundless as you so desperately hope, surely the EU Commissioners would have dismissed them long ago?

    Note to NTBPT Supporters:- IF the EU Commissioners find against WCC, the Verrus Pay-by-Phone contract could be rescinded, with a replacement tender process taking several months during which WCC will be unable to collect their tax.

    Note to Shareholders of Paypoint plc:- With the value of Verrus, so triumphantly purchased by Paypoint plc being heavily dependent on the WCC contract, looks like your company could have bought a lemon!!

    WCC Head of Legal, Peter Large admits being caught with his pants down.

    You may be aware that we have also been investigating the Parking Enforcement Contracts effectively nicked by ex-employees of National Car Parks Ltd (NCPL) back in March 2007, when it was bought by the Macquarie Group only after it ditched its Parking Enforcement activities. These redundant ex-employees created a new company called NCP Services Ltd that later became NSL Ltd.

    Trouble for WCC is that, whilst they claim they "novated" the contracts to this new outfit a year later in March 2008, again, by EU law, this was illegitimate since, when NCPL vacated the contract, WCC had an obligation to re-tender it, not simply hand it to whoever. This would appear to have gone unnoticed by Head of Legal Peter Large as well as external lawyers, Sharpe Pritchard, the crew that Peter, rather than take any blame himself, was most quick to accuse of being at fault. Alas for poor Peter, he failed to notice that the bill for the "advice" and drawing up of this worthless "Deed of Novation" of a £14m local authority contract was a mere £300 - hardly used their Senior Partner then, did they? So confident was poor Peter that all was well, he twice stated (once under FOI) that these contracts did not have to be re-tendered. He even allowed the hapless WCC Chief Executive to announce to the world by press release that WCC Officers had "let the contracts properly".

    Yet, in an email this week to Cllr Paul Dimoldenberg, poor Peter admits he may have got it wrong:- " I agree the hourly rate is low, and that reflects the fact that a junior member of staff undertook the work. At the time, the novation of the contract would not have been regarded by any of those involved as a complex matter. It must be remembered that the Pressetext judgment in the ECJ, which is the case relied on by the motorbike protestors to support their argument that the contract should have been retendered rather than novated, was given in June 2008, after the novation took place. Before Pressetext few if any procurement professionals would have considered any question of a procurement exercise arose in these circumstances - and of course it is not clear that it does even after that case. In the absence of that issue, a novation agreement is, or should be, a straightforward matter." To understand what poor Peter is trying to say in his defence for not knowing the law, whilst being paid over £2,000 per week by WCC to...er...know the law...is that, whilst the law was there before they novated the contract in March 2008, the fact that no-one had been prosecuted for violating it in the way WCC have now done until June 2008 should be seen as a worthwhile excuse.

    Summary

    In short, my friends, the awards of both contracts that, according to WCC need to be paid by the proceeds of the motorcycle charging scheme, have been uncovered by us to be so flawed as to now potentially costs Westminster (and their ratepayers) £m, and potentially ensnare all the partnering authorities of PIP (and their ratepayers alike) as well. And, bearing in mind that we have exposed how the only beneficiaries of the MCS were to be Verrus & NSL, and certainly not the WCC ratepayers, one can't help but wonder how they will feel now at the performance of Colin & his cronies. Of course, were it you or I whose incompetence & arrogance was so embarrassingly exposed as Alistair & Peter, we'd probably jump before we were pushed. But, this is Colin Barrow's WCC, who so correctly predicted that opposition to the MCS would be "small & short-lived".

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    TORY TOFFS EXPERT AT KILLING THE POOR THROUGH THE BENEFIT SYSTEM
    Radical welfare shake-up will cut 50 benefits down to one

    Iain Duncan Smith today signalled deeper cuts in benefits as he sought the backing of the Chancellor for a radical shake-up of the welfare state.

    The Work and Pensions Secretary published his vision for a major simplification of the system, including possibly reducing more than 50 benefits down to one. The document, 21st Century Welfare, made clear that millions of people are likely to get lower benefit payments as the Government seeks to encourage them back into work.

    “We are going to end the culture of worklessness and dependency that has done so much harm to individuals, families and whole communities,” said Mr Duncan Smith. “Our aim is to change forever a system that has too often undermined work and the aspiration that goes with it.” Key to the change is stopping people who switch from welfare to work from initially losing much of their extra income as their benefits are cut. The Government has already announced plans to reduce housing benefit payments.

    Mr Duncan Smith's drive to get people off the dole or incapacity benefit is expected to have initial costs of between £3 billion and £7 billion — a bill that Chancellor George Osborne will be reluctant to meet. Arguing that his reforms would allow the Lib-Con coalition to get a grip on the welfare bill, the Work and Pensions Secretary insisted that the Government as a whole was “committed” to his reforms. Asked if he had made the sums add up, he said: “I believe we have. And the Treasury have discussed this with us.”

    Mr Duncan Smith unveiled a series of options for change including the introduction of one single benefit — a universal credit — which would include a range of out-of-work payments, housing benefits and tax credits. Those entering work would not initially lose any of the universal credit but it would be gradually withdrawn once their income reached a certain level.

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    TRAFFIC WARDENS CLAMP QATARI ROYALS' £1.5 MILLION CARS OUTSIDE HARRODS
    clamped Qatari royals’ £1.5 million cars

    At least paying for the clamps to come off shouldn't be much of a problem for the owners.

    These two modest vehicles, parked naughtily outside Harrods, belong to Qatar's ruling Al-Thani family, and they did manage to scrape together £1.5 billion to buy the department store. Tourists and shoppers gathered to watch as Kensington and Chelsea wardens ticketed and then clamped the two sports cars — a £1.2 million Koenigsegg CCXR, and £350,000 Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce.

    The custom-made vehicles belong to the family's fleet of supercars, which includes a one-off Pagani Zonda Uno. Qatar Holding Group bought Harrods in April from Fulham FC owner Mohamed Fayed. The Qatari royal family controls assets estimated at more than $60 billion (£38.3 billion) with stakes in Credit Suisse and Porsche. Kensington and Chelsea made more than £30,000 a day from penalty charge notices in 2008/09.

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    AUTHOR'S SUICIDE DUE TO SLASH IN BENEFITS
    dwp FRIENDS of an acclaimed Scottish writer have accused the new government's crackdown on welfare benefits of being a factor in his suicide.

    Paul Reekie, who, along with Irvine Welsh, was part of a wave of young Scottish authors who rose to international prominence in the 1990s, killed himself in his Edinburgh home last month. The Leith-based writer and poet, who was 48, left no suicide note but friends say letters informing him that his welfare benefits were to be halted were found close to his body.

    Reekie's former publisher Kevin Williamson believes the actions of Chancellor George Osborne, who has introduced unprecedented measures to slash Britain's welfare bill, helped to push his close friend and literary collaborator towards taking his own life. The founder of the Rebel Inc publishing label has sent a strongly worded letter to Osborne, linking his policies to Reekie's death. The letter states: "It has come to my attention that while many of my friends and I were at the funeral of our good friend Paul Reekie, aged 48, it would appear that you were giving a speech in Parliament announcing your intentions to slash the benefits paid to the poorest and most vulnerable in our society. "I thought I would let you know that Paul took his own life. He didn't leave a note but he laid out two letters on his table. One was notifying him that his housing benefit had been stopped. The other was notifying him that his incapacity benefit had been stopped. "The reason I'm writing this letter is just so you know the human cost of attacking those on benefits." Williamson, who published Reekie's novella, Submission, in the best-selling 1996 anthology Children of Albion Rovers, said: "The letter will be binned and forgotten, but there will be loads more folk in Paul's shoes over the coming years trying to cope with unemployment, depression, house repossessions and stress."

    John Wight, a friend of the late writer, said he believed Reekie had been suffering from "the after-effects of a serious assault". Another close friend believes the letters from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) may have been the final straw for Reekie, who is thought to have been suffering from depression. In an online tribute to the devoted follower of Hibernian FC, he spoke of the last time they met, just days before he took his own life: "I knew (Paul) was lonely and wasn't too happy overall.

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    MOTORBIKE PROTESTERS LOSE COURT BATTLE OVER PARKING SCAMS VIDEO
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    BRITISH SOLDIER WHO LOST A LEG IN THE WAR REFUSED DISABILITY BENEFIT VIDEO
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    BENEFIT CUTS: 750,000 RISK LOSING HOMES IN SOUTH EAST
    Tough new rules capping housing benefit likely to create new generation of rough sleepers, National Housing Federation says.

    More than 750,000 people are at risk of losing their homes in the south-east because of the government's changes to housing benefit from April next year, according to a campaign group. The National Housing Federation, the main voice for the country's housing associations, warns today that the tough new rules are likely to lead to the highest number of homeless people in Britain for more than three decades.

    It says the benefit cuts could force low-income families out of their homes in swaths of the most prosperous parts of the country. Using data from councils, the federation says 425,000 people in London are at risk of losing their homes, while 326,250 people in the south-east are at risk. The study estimates that the proposed changes could lead to at least 750,000 people being without a roof over their heads, five times the 140,000 currently considered homeless in Britain, and easily surpassing the 174,503 recorded in 2003, which was the highest figure for homelessness since modern records began in 1980. The concern is that this will lead to a new generation of rough sleepers, especially as councils, which are facing budget cuts, only have a statutory duty to house people classified as being in "priority need".

    The stark message comes as Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, prepares to publish an official impact assessment of the effect of measures announced in last month's emergency budget to save £1.8bn from housing benefit and allowances. It will say that the caps are designed to get claimants to move to smaller and more appropriate homes and will claim that the reforms will help bring down rental prices. Ministers will also argue that almost half the losses stem from reforms introduced but not implemented by Labour ahead of the general election. The aim is to spread the political blame for what is turning into one of the most difficult welfare reforms proposed by the government. Helen Goodman, Labour's frontbench spokeswoman on child poverty, childcare and housing benefit, said it was plain that the government had "rushed through the changes without thinking through the social consequences".

    Many in the housing sector have warned that the measures are too draconian and would disproportionately affect the needy, pushing people on to the streets to pay for the country's deficit. The changes are designed to force those in receipt of benefits to rely on income rather than on the state to meet their housing needs. In his budget, George Osborne imposed caps on housing benefit of £400 a week for a four-bedroom property and £250 a week for a two-bedroom home. He also proposed cutting the amount of the allowance so that it was pegged to the bottom third of rents in any borough. Another concern is that future increases to local housing subsidies will be linked to retail price inflation, rather than rents, which will further erode the value of the benefit. Unemployed people are also specifically targeted, with those who claim jobseeker's allowance for 12 months seeing their housing benefit fall by 10% under the coalition government's plans.

    David Orr, the National Housing Federation's chief executive, warned that the move would see some of the poorest in society facing "enormous upheaval", and that thousands of children would be shifted out of schools as families move to try to find cheaper accommodation. "If the government presses ahead, more than 750,000 people would be at risk of losing their home," he said. "The housing benefit caps could see poorer people effectively forced out of wealthier areas, and ghettoised into poorer neighbourhoods. Some people affected by housing benefit caps may successfully find a home in cheaper areas, but many will end up in expensive bed and breakfast accommodation, while thousands will simply become homeless."The minister for welfare reform, Lord Freud, said: "We are working to restore fairness and responsibility to a broken system, so that we are no longer left in the absurd situation where if you are on benefits you can receive an expensive house in a smart area that many working families could not afford.

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    STASI COUNCILS ORDERED TO STOP SPYING ON TAXPAYERS DUSTBINS
    bin spies Councils were last night ordered to stop conducting secret raids on residents' dustbins - as ministers moved to calm a public outcry over the issue.

    Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman sent a strongly worded letter to the Local Government Association effectively banning councils from conducting covert 'waste audits'. She warned that the controversial operations may even be against the law.

    Mrs Spelman's intervention follows revelations in Tuesday's Daily Mail that 90 councils have carried out secret raids on residents' bins in the past year. In total, council officials and private contractors rifled through the contents of more than 10,000 families' dustbins. In her letter yesterday, Mrs Spelman dismissed claims by some councils that the bin raids were given legal cover by guidance from her own department.

    She wrote: 'Further to the article in yesterday's Daily Mail, Council Race Spies Rummage Through Your Bins, I would like to remind colleagues in local government that the guidance cited... is now outdated and is no longer current guidance by Defra.' Some councils even used sophisticated social profiling techniques to match different types of rubbish to different ethnic or social groups. Officials checked supermarket labels, types of unwanted food and even examined the contents of discarded mail.

    Mrs Spelman is said to have been 'very concerned' by the raids, which critics have branded 'highly intrusive'. A Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs source said the practice was likely to be outlawed as part of previously announced moves to ban councils from misusing surveillance powers designed for tackling crime to spy on residents. MP and Environment Secretary Carol Spelman's letter on the matter of 'Waste Audits'

    The source said: 'We are going to ban councils from using surveillance and snooping powers for minor breaches and general use.

    'Any surveillance will have to be signed off by a magistrate and will be restricted to serious offences that attract a custodial sentence.' Several councils challenged over the legality of the raids quoted 2004 guidance from Defra, now headed by Mrs Spelman. The guidance stated: 'Ideally, you do not want to inform the public of an audit taking place, as this could alter their disposal behaviour.' But in her letter, Mrs Spelman said the Defra guidance 'is now outdated'.

    She said the Government was committed to 'defending individual freedoms and protecting the freedoms and liberties which are a rich part of our British tradition'. Mrs Spelman said a wide-ranging review of waste policy, to be launched in the next few weeks, would reconsider all existing guidance.

    The warning has also been copied to the Waste and Resources Action Programme - the controversial 'bin quango' set up by Labour, which has encouraged councils to carry out checks on residents' bins. Councils claim the so-called 'waste audits' are needed to help target recycling efforts.

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    LONDON COUNCIL STASI SECRET BIN SPIES
    bin spies IDEAL TIME FOR LONDONERS TO BUY SHREDDERS

    London councils have been secretly snooping in dustbins to profile residents according to race and wealth.

    Officials and private contractors have conducted “waste audits” in which they check the brands and types of discarded food and read mail thrown out with the rubbish. The profiling tactics have been employed so that recycling drives can be targeted according to ethnicity and social class.

    Kensington and Chelsea and Hackney councils are among the 90 local authorities who have run covert bin-checking operations, according to Freedom of Information requests. Hackney targeted homes based on their social mix using four categories including “multi-ethnic private flats” and “prosperous young professional flats”. They concluded that “educated urbanities” threw out the least.

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    COURT JUDGEMENT ON WESTMINSTER MOTORBIKE PARKING TAX ACTION VIDEO
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  • High Court judgement on Westminster parking protest action

    • Scooter riders and motorcyclists today lost a High Court battle challenging the legality of a parking charge introduced in Westminster. The court threw out a bid by parking campaigner Warren Djanogly, made on behalf of campaign group No to Bike Parking Tax, to stop Westminster Council levying a £1 per day on-street charge for motorcyclists.

    Over the last year, the campaigners have held weekly demonstrations in the borough with a series of go-slows in and around Trafalagar Square during the morning and evening rush hour. Police have also been called multiple times to remove protesters from the entrance of Westminster City Hall in Victoria when the group has blocked staff and members of the public from getting into the building. Campaigners will now step up their protests and continue to expose the irregularities still continuing at Westminster concerning contract awards and parking enforcement

    Lord Justice Pitchford, sitting with Mr Justice Maddison, rejected the protesters' claims that the council introduced the charged simply to raise revenue, which would have been illegal if true. At the court on July 16, he also dismissedautolinker.com autolinking image accusations that the council had not carried out a full consultation before implementing the tariff.
    SEX SHAME SOCIAL WORK MANAGER USED POSITION TO SEDUCE VULNERABLE WOMAN
    A SOCIAL work boss has quit in disgrace after seducing a vulnerable woman in his care.

    Phil Bennett, 49, has been struck off after wooing her with sleazy emails and sleeping with her in his office at the care centre where he was manager. In a damning report, the Scottish Social Services Council warned the married dad-of-two - a devout Baptist - could target other women if allowed to remain a social worker. The social work watchdog concluded: "As a consequence of his behaviour, the complainant suffered actual harm. "The SSSC were concerned there was a genuine risk to members of the public (including service users).

    "He abused his position of power and trust and had not expressed any remorse for his actions. "The SCCC were not satisfied that he would not act in a similar manner in the future." Bennett began working at Orkney Carers Centre in Kirkwall, in August 2008. He was also manager of Crossroads (Orkney), who are based in the same building and offer "emotional support for carers". Bennett often met the woman - identified only as AA - as she cared for her husband and son.

    The SCCC report stated: "AA was socially isolated as a result of being new to the community and her role as a carer. During a meeting with AA on 27 May 2009, he discussed extra marital sex which was inappropriate and breached professional boundaries. "He engaged in a course of email correspondence from his personal email to AA's address between June 4 and August 15, 2009, the content of which included graphic sexual references. "He failed to advise his employers when AA contacted him and expressed a desire to pursue a non-professional relationship with him.

    "He failed to terminate contact with AA when she began disclosing inappropriate personal information about herself and her private life. "He allowed the relationship to develop such that he had sexual intercourse with the complainant at his place of work. "As a result of his relationship with AA, she suffered emotional harm. He breached the professional boundaries of a social service worker providing a service to a service user." Bennett - an active member of the Baptist Church in Stromness - quit his job with Orkney's social work department last August when the affair came to light. He also quit as a director of the Orkney Citizens Advice Bureau.

    The SCCC added: "His behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with his duties as a social worker. "It demonstrated a serious lack of judgment. It was a grave departure from the codes of practice for social workers. "The correspondence from him demonstrated a lack of understanding of both the serious nature of the misconduct and the harm that was caused to the complainant." Last week, the Sunday Mail tracked down Bennett to Southampton where he has a new job as housing officer for the city council. His wife Val remains 750 miles away on Orkney.

    When we confronted the shamed social worker on Friday, he admitted keeping his sleazy past secret from his new employers. He said: "Southampton City Council does not need to know about my past because this has nothing to do with my social work. "The investigation has been ongoing while I had this job. I didn't feel the need to declare it. "The SSSC's findings were incorrect. They said I didn't feel remorse but that is not true.

    The way the council asks you questions in their jargon makes it sound like I didn't. "No one came to ask me specifically if I felt remorse. If they had asked me, I would have said yes." But Bennett's new bosses suspended him on Friday and launched a probe.

    A Southampton City Council spokesman said: "Staff who work with vulnerable people are Criminal Records Bureau checked. "The safety of our tenants is of paramount importance to us. As a result of allegations received today, a member of staff has been suspended pending further investigation." Orkney Islands Council declined to comment.

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    BIKERS BID TO PREVENT WESTMINSTER 'PAY BY PHONE' PARKING CRASHES IN HIGH COURT
    no to bike parking ONCE AGAIN THE UK'S MASONIC JUDICIARY MAKE DECISIONS THAT ONLY A JURY SHOULD BE MAKING. TYRANNY BY CROWN JUDGES THAT ARE UNDERMINING THE RULE OF LAW

    Westminster council today won a landmark legal battle over charging motorcyclists to park in the street.

    The High Court dismissed a parking campaigner's attempt to prevent officials levying a £1-a-day fee. A judge rejected claims by Warren Djanogly, of No To Motorbike Parking Fees, that the authority introduced it simply to raise revenue. He also turned down claims the council did not conduct a full consultation before bringing in the charge, now operational across the borough.

    The ruling may have wide-reaching implications, with other boroughs now also likely to consider charging motorcyclists to park. Lord Justice Pitchford, sitting with Mr Justice Maddison, said the council had "perfectly legitimate objectives" in bringing in the fee to help regulate traffic. He added: "While there were traffic management and environmental arguments for and against treating motorcycles as a special case, it does not seem ... the council acted outside its powers by resolving that all road users should pay their fair share for on-street provision of spaces." He said the charge was introduced "to improve on-street parking availability for motorcyclists in order to meet actual and anticipated increased demand. The existence of that need cannot be seriously challenged. The evidence was overwhelming." The judge said the influx of motorcyclists into Westminster following the start of the congestion charge in 2003 demonstrated "the continuing need for measures of "restraint", which was the basis for the auth- ority's policy in the first place." Westminster said it would seek to recover its legal costs of £50,000.

    Over the past year the campaign group has held weekly demonstrations in Westminster, with "go-slow" rides in and around Trafalgar Square in the morning and evening rush hours to "paralyse" central London and turn the spotlight on their campaign. Motorcyclists have also taken their protests to the entrance of Westminster City Hall in Victoria. Lee Rowley, Westminster's cabinet member for parking and transportation, said: "Our decision to charge motorcyclists £1 per day to park has been rigorously scrutinised, open to widespread public debate and has now been tested in the High Court. "We have always maintained that with huge demand for on-street space here, charging motorcyclists a small sum to park was fair and I'm glad the judge has reiterated this. "This is not about the council versus motorcyclists, who we see as an important part of central London's transport mix. We were one of the UK's first local authorities to permit motorcycles in bus lanes and we will always want to work with the motorcycling community." Motorcyclists are charged to use any dedicated on-street bay. The council says it will hold the charge at £1 a day for three years. Riders can park free in its car parks.

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    WESTMINSTER COUNCIL PARKING SCAMS AND MOTORBIKE PROTESTS UPDATE
    no to bike parking FOR EVERYONE WHO DRIVES ANY FORM OF VEHICLE THAT CAN BE HIT WITH PARKING CHARGES THIS PROTEST IS IMPORTANT TO STOP THE ROLLING OUT OF THE PARKING BY PHONE SCAMS LIKE VERRUS OPERATED BY MASONIC CONTROLLED COUNCILS AND BEING TRIALED IN WESTMINSTER .

    LATEST NEWS (UPDATED 19TH JUNE 2010): The campaign has lodged a claim to the High Court against Westminster City Council, read the notice of claim in full HERE. The High Court date is set for 24th June 2010. To stay up to date, join our mailing list. and If you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to contact us direct here Why?

    1. It used to be free to park like that, now they expect us to pay and give us nothing for it, plus you need a mobile phone and credit card to pay.

    2. On-street motorcycle parking in Westminster has increased by 35% since 2006 from 4,550 to 6,150 but they also stopped motorcycles from parking on unused pieces of land and footpaths/alleyways where the vehicle was not obstructing pedestrians

    3. The Mayor of Paris INCREASED the number of FREE individual marked out motorcycle parking spaces by 18,000, to do this they had to remove 1200 money making car parking spaces

    4. Westminster City Council promised secure ground anchors to chain our bikes to… so far they have only installed 140 in 20 bays, there are 500 bays which works out at around 4%

    5. From FOI (Freedom Of Information) requests we have worked out that Westminster City Council has generated almost £4million in revenue in 2 years from this scheme

    6. Westminster City Council claim to be making a loss of £430,000 a year, costing tax payers money for a scheme which is supposed to be revenue neutral as it is illegal to charge for parking in the sole purpose of generating revenue

    7. If the scheme is LOSING MONEY what sense is there in continuing to charge?

    8. They have recieved 8000 objections to this scheme, NO SUPPORT from any Residents’ Associations, and total damnation from the BMF, MAG, and Tax Payers Alliance

    9. They now face a costly High Court case which has been funded by donations to the NoToBikeParkingTax Campaign which is costing the tax payer even more money

    10. The leader (Danny Chalkly) in charge of the parking scheme recently resigned due to the constant pressure from this campaign and the lack of support from his colleagues

    11. The Government gets £50billion in taxes (fuel (a litre of unleaded petrol at £119.9 per Litre = fuel duty at 57.19p, VAT 17.86p, Product 39.85p, per Litre, retailer and delivery 5p), insurance 5% of policy cost, road tax, licenses, speed camera fines) a year which is supposed to cover everything to do with the roads in Britain, they currently only spend £8.3billion of it… hence the state of our roads. Why do local councils need to charge for parking when the Government is sitting on £41.7billion, its time we asked for our money back!

    12. Westminster City Council is one of the richest councils in England and gets an annual budget of £1billion, part of which is to cover all road maintenance (signs, road markings, pavements, etc) why then do they charge for painting a white line for motorcycles to park in? They dont charge cyclists for all the cycle railings to chain their bikes to, and bicycles dont pay towards the up keep of Britains roads. (We are not making a stab at cyclists here, we are just making a point, we think cyclist should get free railings and parking facilities, but then how can the councils be so hypocritical and charge the tax payers even more for something they are already entitled to and have payed for!)

    13. Westminster City Council makes £40million a year from council tax, but makes £80million from parking revenue, why does the price of parking a car keep exceeding the rate of inflation for no benefits? When parking meters were first introduced they started in Westminster 50 years ago, it cost back then 5p an hour to park, if the price had increased with inflation it would now only cost 45p an hour to park… but it now costs £5 an hour, which is a 10,000% increase… for what?

    Motorcycle and scooter riders will not let this happen to them!

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    SPEED CAMERA'S RAISE £65M A YEAR
    speed camera Fixed penalty fines from speed camera partnership schemes raise more than £65 million a year, according to new figures.

    Including court fines collected from speeding and red light offences, total annual speeding fines stand at £87.3 million. The groups also said published figures showed that road casualty numbers have declined at a slower rate since speed cameras were introduced in the early 1990s compared with the rate before then.

    The figures showed a total of £87,368,227 was collected in fines for speeding and red light offences caught on speed cameras in the financial period 2008-09 in the UK. This includes fines from magistrates' courts for speeding offences and neglect of traffic directions, such as lane offences, in 2008. The total includes £65,748,850 from fixed penalties detected by cameras operated by safety camera partnerships in England and Wales. It also includes £19,214,594 in fines from magistrates' courts for speeding offences and neglect of traffic directions in calendar year 2008 in England and Wales. The Scottish courts in 2008-09 collected £1,641,630 for speeding offences and £763,153 came from fixed penalties detected by speed cameras in Northern Ireland. The two organisations said it could be estimated that 1,555,244 more road casualties occurred between 1991-2007 than would have if the 1978-1990 casualty trend had continued.

    Motorists have long suspected that speed cameras are more about raising money than keeping the roads safe. These findings show that the state has been squeezing a fortune out of people using these cameras, but if anything the rate of reduction in casualty numbers has slowed. The whole country should follow the example of Swindon, which has scrapped cameras altogether. People are sick of being fined under the guise of road safety.

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    THE RISE OF THE PARKING THUGS CRIMINAL ATTACKS ON DRIVERS
    traffic warden Parking wardens giving out 'illegal' fines to hit targets

    Motorists have been tricked into paying tens of thousands of pounds in 'illegal' parking tickets issued so that wardens can meet targets. Thousands of the wrongful tickets have been paid by drivers who were unaware that they should have been cancelled by the council contractors who dole them out. The tickets were issued by NSL, formerly NCP, Britain's biggest parking enforcer, which patrols the streets of 60 local authorities and Heathrow and Gatwick.

    Wardens are issuing the penalty charge notices simply to hit personal targets set by NSL - and even give this reason to management in writing. In one case, a warden placed a ticket on a vehicle, waited an hour and then issued another for the same offence knowing that this was unlawful. On the paperwork, seen only by his supervisor, he wrote in poor English: 'I issued PCN to keep my performance on reasonable level regardless of that it will get spoil as soon as challenge.' Parking bosses who review the penalty charge notices know the fines - costing £120, or £60 if paid within two weeks - are wrong, but do not tell the drivers and instead wait to see if they pay the fine.

    In some cases bailiffs have pursued drivers for not paying up. On official paperwork, managers have described the fraudulent practice as 'commonplace'. During one month last year at one London local authority, managers wrote 'only cancel if appealed' on paperwork for dozens of tickets issued for no legitimate reason. For example, tickets in Westminster have been issued for vehicles unloading, cars temporarily parked on pavements while the driver is opening a gate, and scaffolding trucks at the side of building sites. NSL wardens say that if they do not hit their targets they are told they are ineligible for overtime and even face losing their jobs.

    Parking bosses who are supposed to cancel these tickets simply write 'cancel if challenged' - placing the onus on the motorist, who is unaware of the illegality of the fine. An NSL source said: 'All councils deny setting targets for parking tickets but they do by giving them another name such as the "expected rate" or "base level". 'Some wardens have resorted to issuing tickets they know are unlawful just to hit their target. The company knows most people will pay it rather than appeal.' NSL has denied setting targets and claimed it is simply monitoring performance, but monthly NSL figures show a 'PCN target' in the documentation.

    In Westminster, traffic wardens, now called Civil Enforcement Officers, are given a target to issue 1.5 tickets an hour despite the council denying they have specific quotas to fill. It is also in breach of Government guidelines outlawing target setting. Westminster Council has begun an investigation. An NSL spokesman said: 'With any contract we monitor the performance of our Civil Enforcement Officers, as there is a great deal of trust associated with the role.' He said 'Performance Indicators' were simply a guide to whether CEOs were doing their job properly.

    WHAT THEY DO

    Traffic wardens issue the ticket for the wrong reason and state this while officially recording the incident. The ticket is then reviewed by a supervisor who states that it should be cancelled ONLY if the motorist appeals.

    If the motorist appeals, the information that it should be cancelled is revealed and the charge is scrapped. But if the motorist chooses to pay the fine, then the parking company does not reveal that it is an unlawful charge and accepts the money.

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    MASSIVE M25 MOTORBIKE PROTEST OVER PARKING SCAMS IN LONDON VIDEO
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    MOTORBIKERS ARRIVE EN MASSE INTO CENTRAL LONDON AFTER M25 PROTEST VIDEO
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    LEGALISED PARKING MUGGERS WHO CHARGE UP TO £800 TO RELEASE CARS TO BE BANNED
    gordon miller Cashing in: Notorious rogue clampers like Gordon Miller employ devious method to ramp up their profits

    Cowboy wheel clampers will be banned from operating on private land under Government plans to end a practice which has been condemned as ‘legalised mugging’. Motoring organisations have been deluged with complaints about rogue clampers who fail to properly display parking regulations – then charge extortionate fees to free vehicles. More than 1,900 companies have the power to hit drivers for up to £800 a time to release cars left ‘too long’ in supermarket, hospital or railway station car parks.

    Now Ministers have drafted proposals to abolish all private clamping in England and Wales, 20 years after the practice was outlawed in Scotland. Under the Home Office plans, firms involved in the £240 million-a-year business would only be able to immobilise cars if they are contracted to do so by local authorities. Without an official council warrant, firms would be restricted to issuing parking tickets. Liberal Democrat Transport Minister Norman Baker, who is working on the plans with the Home Office, said: ‘There is an extremely strong case to ban these rogue clamping activities, and the political will now exists to make sure that it happens.’

    Last year the AA complained that the amount of money paid by motorists to clampers and private parking firms had reached ‘epidemic proportions’. The move follows a two-year campaign by The Mail on Sunday for greater regulation of the industry. This newspaper disclosed how the Labour Government had made more than £15 million in five years by selling the names and addresses of six million motorists to wheel clampers and car park operators.

    The information was passed to unscrupulous operators such as convicted criminals Darren Havell and Gordon Miller, who ramped up profits for their Portsmouth wheel clamping company by deliberately blocking in drivers with a van and immobilising cars as they were being driven away. It is understood that the plans to sweep away cowboy clampers is the subject of a behind-the-scenes debate with senior civil servants, who have warned that the Government could face expensive compensation claims for loss of livelihood from the companies. However, the change in the law could be made without passing new legislation.

    Labour MP Rosie Winterton, who has been campaigning for tighter controls of cowboy clampers for more than a decade, says she has uncovered evidence of companies charging drivers three times for the same parking offence, failing to offer any appeals process, and insisting on cash-only payment – then frogmarching motorists to cash machines if they cannot pay up. She says that one of her Doncaster constituents had his car clamped shortly after having a double hip replacement. He was told he had to pay £100 to have his car released, and was made to walk into town to withdraw the money from his bank. When he returned, he was met with a demand for a further £55 to pay for a ‘cancelled towing vehicle’ – so had to hobble back into town on a freezing night in February to get out the money.

    The notice in the car park warning of clamping penalties was tiny and barely legible on a dark winter’s night. ‘Vulnerable elderly people, young mothers with children, and people who can least afford it are being stung for large amounts of money,’ said Ms Winterton. Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone said: ‘The Government is committed to tackling the menace of rogue private sector wheel clampers and is looking at all available options.’

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    WAR AGAINST BIKERS STEPS UP WITH WESTMINSTER SPIES BROUGHT IN
    NO SIGN A war between motorcyclists and council parking managers escalated today amid “spying” claims and thousands of pounds of criminal damage caused to road signs.

    Police have assigned a detective to use Westminster City Council's vast network of CCTV cameras to track down the bikers spray-painting parking signs to avoid paying a £1-a-day charge. But motorcyclists today accused Westminster of “drumming up” a negative campaign against them days before a High Court case where the

    No To The Bike Parking Tax campaign will challenge the fee's legality.

    The council called in Westminster CID after one sign in Golden Square in Soho was hit 40 times. A spokeswoman said identifying the culprits was proving difficult because their faces were disguised by their motorcycle helmets and they often obscured their registration plate to carry out the daytime attacks. More than 1,700 of Westminster's 7,000 bays have been damaged since January last year, costing £150,000. CCTV cameras will be trained on trouble spots to follow-up intelligence from parking attendants.

    Leith Penny, Westminster's strategic director of city management, said: “This criminal damage has been carried out by vandals who appear to think they are above the law. “We will not hesitate to prosecute any individuals found to be carrying out action that is tantamount to stealing from the public purse.” In a bid to escape the daily charge — or £100 annual fee — the vandals either paint over a sign, steal part of it or replace it with a fake version.

    Bikers condemned the extra surveillance as a “huge waste of money”. Warren Djanogly, chairman of the campaign, said: “It shows the contempt Westminster council has for taxpayers' money that they are wasting it on spying on their own road signs.” There is no suggestion Mr Djanogly's group has any links to the vandalism and they distance themselves from those responsible for the attacks. Thousands of bikers are expected to ride around the M25 on Saturday to show their support for the High Court legal challenge.

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  • Two-wheel accidents soar as motorcyclists use London bus lanes
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    BIKERS TAKE ON BATTLE WITH WESTMINSTER OVER PARKING SCAMS BY PHONE

                               
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    Parking by phone scams run by Verrus will affect ALL drivers not just two wheeled vehicles throughout the western world. Westminster has been regularly brought to a standstill in the battle to remove pay by phone systems that if successful in London will be rolled out to every city in the UK and Europe, if not the world.

    Pay by phone will not only affect parking but is part of a NWO agenda were everyone will increasingly be FINED for the most insignificant breach of laws these mobsters lawyers and legislators are already working on. Finally Londoners have gotten off their asses after car drivers have been hammered for years over increasingly unfair road and parking taxes engineered by Westminsters masonic councillors.They have been operating extortion scams by inventing fictitious motoring offences through ever increasing use of CCTV and using bully boy bailiffs to enforce their outrageous charging systems.

    THIS IS A BATTLE THAT CANNOT BE LOST EVEN IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THIS DIRECTLY AFFECTS YOU, IN TIME IF YOU ARE A DRIVER, IT DEFINITELY WILL.

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    DANGEROUS POP UP PARKING BOLLARDS ARE DESTROYING CARS AND INJURING DRIVERS
    bollards IN THE great scheme of world events, pop-up bollards might not be significant.

    Unless, of course, they have ripped the guts out of your new car and smashed up your face, when they popped up. Unless, you're left in agony, dazed and bleeding profusely from the impact when your head hit the steering wheel. Then it becomes a matter of some importance, as you survey the wreckage of your car that will cost thousands to repair. And for what? So the local council can stop you from parking without permission.

    They might as well have two burly thugs standing guard, smashing your headlights with baseball bats, if you dare to venture into their car park. Because the level of aggression is no different. A bollard that suddenly juts out of the ground and impales a car is as hostile as a thug smashing everything in sight. In case you're wondering - or even hoping - this didn't actually happen to me. If it had, I'd still be chained to the railings outside North Lanarkshire Council, who have installed these potentially lethal pop-up bollards in their car park. It happened to my sister. Yes, she was in the wrong. She made an honest mistake. And she paid a heavy price. Here's the scenario. The RBS in Airdrie shares a car park with the council, and customers at the bank are given a token to get out.

    When my sister left the bank, she got into her car and pulled in behind a lady driver on her way out of the car park. When the lady drove off and the bollard was down, my sister put her coin in and moved forward. She assumed her coin had engaged, and, since there were two cars in quick succession, the bollard would stay down, and so she went directly behind the car.

    Big mistake.

    The next thing she remembers is the pain as her face hit the steering wheel, bursting open her lips. Then she recognised the smell of oil. The 3ft chunky bollard had come up through her oil sump, rupturing the tank and the BMW was completely knackered. My sister, blood pouring out of her mouth, thought at first that she had lost her front teeth.

    Of course it was her fault. You might say it's a stupid woman thing, and that a man would know better. But last week the very same thing happened with a man driving a van, which had to be towed away after the bollard shot up from the ground and disabled it. What I'd like to know is... what is the basis for North Lanarkshire Council's aggressive attitude to parking? They have clearly given no consideration whatsoever to the consequences of installing these stupid bollards.

    What if the scenario had been different - such as a mother rushing a suddenly ill child home, making an honest mistake? Or an elderly person who had forgotten to put the coin in? Now if this was the entrance to an airport where high security is crucial, you could see the force of pop-up bollards to stop cars in their tracks from entering a no-go area. If it was a building that housed sensitive material or secret files, you would just about understand the intense security measure. But this is not Sellafield. This is the rent office, for God's sake.

    The only thing that happens in there is locals pay their council tax, or discuss rent arrears. So why the fuss and aggression?

    It comes from the same hostile mentality of councils towards motorists whose cars are either clamped or end up in the pound, costing a fortune for those who have happened to park in the wrong place. And there are more and more bollards popping up everywhere in the UK. There are already protests in Manchester and Newcastle, where councils have set them up in city centres and cars are being wrecked on a regular basis. What I'd like to know is just how much the councils spend installing these high- tech jobs, and why are they in car parks as innocuous as the rent office.

    We should all make a stance on it. Any justification the councils offer is, quite frankly, a load of bollards.

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    MASONIC MAFIA BEHIND EXTORTIONATE HOSPITAL PARKING THUG SCAMS VIDEO
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    THE CONTINUAL RISE OF THE MASONIC PARKING MAFIA
    traffic warden THE RUTHLESS PLUNDERING OF LONG SUFFERING MOTORISTS BY COUNCILS RUN BY A MASONIC HIERACHY

    £14.6m profit out of capital parking. Yet councils want £100 fines to meet “shortfall”

    SCOTLAND’S CAPITAL city is raking in multi-million pound profits from fines and pay and display ticket fees. The news comes just weeks after plans were announced to increase penalties to £100 following complaints councils were struggling to finance parking operations. Motoring groups are now demanding ministers abandon the move.

    Documents shown to The Sunday Post reveal Edinburgh Council brought in £6.3 million from fines last year. On top of this is £13.8m raised from pay-and-display machines and residents’ permits. Yet the council paid just £5.5m to the firm that enforces parking regulations on their behalf. They refused to break that figure down further, claiming it was protected by “client confidentiality”. However, overall their parking operations generated an overall profit of a staggering £14.6m. In March we exclusively revealed penalty notices in areas where parking is controlled by councils are set to soar to £100. The plan was hatched following warnings the current £60 penalty, which is reduced to £30 if motorists pay within two weeks, doesn’t cover the cost of enforcing no-parking zones. Hugh Bladon, of the Association of British Drivers, said the latest revelations make a mockery of these claims. He said, “Councils claim it’s become impossible to self-finance parking operations but this is clearly nonsense.

    “They must abandon plans to increase fines and accept they shouldn’t be making obscene profits at motorists’ expense.” Under laws introduced in 1991 seven Scottish councils took over the administration of parking regulations from police traffic wardens. Edinburgh and Glasgow sub-contract enforcement to private firms while the others employ their own attendants. Glasgow’s latest figures, for the financial year to 2009, show they raised £5,528,435 from 160,000 parking tickets carried out by council-employed attendants at a cost of £6,487,821.

    Enforcement is now done by an outside company.

    Our probe shows that in the financial year just ended, the City of Edinburgh Council raked in £6.3m from fines and £11.3m from ticket machine income. They also raised £1.8m from residential parking permits and a further £787,000 from mobile phone payments. Over the same 12-month period the amount it paid NCP, the firm which enforces parking regulations on its behalf, was £5.5 million. Meanwhile, Aberdeen banked almost £1.3m from parking fines, up £58,000 on the previous year, while South Lanarkshire’s income rose by £15,000 to £465,000. Dundee and Perth and Kinross councils posted a fall in fine income while Renfrewshire only took control of parking regulations in April.

    TRAFFIC wardens in Edinburgh dish out more tickets than their counterparts in Scotland’s largest and third largest cities. Last year the city’s notorious parking attendants Issued 210,000 fines, far more than the 160,000 handed out in Glasgow and the 46,000 in Aberdeen. The meanest of the Blue Meanies — the nickname given to the men and women who prowl the streets looking for illegally parked cars — were responsible for 4522 of them. That means they booked errant drivers at a rate of one every 20 minutes, single-handedly raking in a staggering £271,320 in just 12 months.

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    LONDON MAYOR THREATENS MOTORBIKE PROTESTERS VIDEO
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    DIRTY TRICKS FAKE 999 CALLS DURING LONDON MOTORBIKE PROTEST VIDEO
  • FULL SCREEN VERSION HERE

    • At the last (26th May 2010) Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club (WMBC) riders started noticing the increased number of emergency vehicles trying to navigate Trafalgar Square whilst the WMBC were holding their ‘behave like a car’ meeting. This is in protest at Westminster Councils decision to discourage the use of two wheeled vehicles in central London by way of a parking tax. As this was the 12th such meeting, seasoned members of the WMBC are quite familiar with the pattern of events, so the increased number of vehicles with blue flashing lights and sirens stood out. One incident raised suspicions that some organisation with an aim of ending the protests were trying to engineer some bad PR for the riders. View the video below for accounts of how a 999 call was made claiming that a woman cyclist had been knocked off her bike and was supposedly lying in the road.

    Later in the day one police officer contacted Warren Djanogly, Chairman of the No To Bike Parking Tax campaign group, to check allegations that the WMBC riders had deliberately obstructed the progress of both the ambulance and the police car attending the make believe accident. This would seem to be some more mischief making on the part of someone, as it was Mr Djanogly himself who helped clear a path to allow the ambulance to traverse across the square. The allegation of riders deliberately obstructing the police car would have been more difficult to disprove if it wasn’t for the posting of a video of the cars arrival and progress around the square (view video here). Mr Djanogly has made a request for the MET to investigate the hoax 999 call. We hope that won’t be another police report that may never see the light of day. We said in our last post that some people in either Transport for London, GLA or Westminster are cynically attempting to discredit the WMBC by withdrawing the previous large police presence. This would be in the hope that an act of violence would occur between frustrated motorist and the riders. There was certainly no shortage of threats of violence towards the riders from van and car drivers who had not bothered to check the traffic reports before heading in to central London. But now the possibility exists that the powers that be have sunk to a new low, could it be that they are capable of arranging for an increased number of emergency vehicles to get stuck in the WMBC gridlock.

    Before meeting up at Trafalgar Square the WMBC attended one of their other favourite haunts, Millbank. Where the video below shows one bemused Londoner commenting whilst on her way to work. But this video comes with a warning, if your name is Councillor Angela Harvey, as it shows not only a cyclist, but one riding on the pavement. But what’s really likely to cause poor old Angela to have a ‘mis-conflation‘ is because the cyclist is a ‘little old lady’. We wonder if Angela herself will write out the fixed penalty notice, as the Council plots another cash grab, this time from the cyclists. Well we know Councillor Barrow believes that every penny counts, sometimes.
    LONDON BIKE PARKING TAX PROTEST CAUSING ROAD CHAOS VIDEO
  • FULL SCREEN VERSION HERE
  • MOTORBIKERS AGAINST COUNCIL TYRANNY(VIDEO)
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    LONDON MOTORBIKE PROTEST AND PCSO CLOUSEAU VIDEO
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    • The No To Bike Parking Tax (NTBPT) campaign group are holding a ‘treat us like cars, we’ll behave like cars’ protest every day this week. This mornings was held at Millbank on the Lambeth Bridge roundabout. Events were proceeding normally when a Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) arrived on his scooter. Little did the riders know that this officer was not there to keep the peace. Instead the NTBPT had been sent PCSO Clouseau to bark at the riders, ordering them into unsafe road positions. This jobs worth of the yard had worked him self up into quite a state, at one point telling a coach driver to knock a biker off his bike.

    Unfortunately for PCSO Clouseau a real Policeman happened to be cycling through the area. When the real Chief Inspector tried to have a quiet word with the eager beaver PCSO Clouseau, the Chief Inspector was told ‘No, not now’. Perhaps not the wisest thing to have said to Chief Inspector Switzer, but very brave of PCSO Clouseau none the less. Poor PCSO Clouseau was shown the Chief Inspectors warrant card and seemed to be in for some kerbside retraining. Incredibly PCSO Clouseau still valiantly tried to direct traffic with just one arm whilst being retrained, what a trooper.

    The dates for the next protest are:

    2nd June 2010 WMBC 7:30am Meet outside Costa, Villiers Street, London, WC2
    2nd June 2010 WESC 17:30pm Meet outside Costa, Villiers Street, London, WC2
    3rd June 2010 WMBC 7:30am Meet outside Costa, Villiers Street, London, WC2
    4th June 2010 WMBC 7:30am Meet outside Costa, Villiers Street, London, WC2

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    FINED IN 65 SECONDS: DRIVER GETS £120 FINE AFTER READING PARKING SIGN
    parking mafia Fined in 65 seconds: driver who stopped to look at parking sign

    A driver has been hit with a £120 fine after stopping for just 65 seconds so she could check for parking restrictions. Claire Hallam, 45, was issued with a £60 penalty after CCTV cameras caught her in Lee High Road, south-east London. Mrs Hallam, of Deptford, says she stopped in a loading bay to check the sign. She said: “There was a big P that said you could park for 20 minutes.”

    But a girl from a nearby bike shop came out to tell her she could not stop. “I jumped back in and drove off,” she said. “It's not like I caused any inconvenience to traffic.” However, a TfL spokesman said she was using the bay outside its operating hours: “There is no stopping for any period of time along the red route on Lee High Road between 4pm and 7pm.” Mrs Hallam, 45, has to pay £120 after losing her appeal.

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    LATEST ON BIKER PROTEST OVER PAY BY PHONE PARKING SCAMS IN WESTMINSTER
    no to bike parking We write at the end of the most awesome week for the campaign - with the highlight being the scalp of Councillor Danny Chalkley, whose ill-fated attack on the motorcycle community has cost him his cabinet job within WCC , and thus has pretty much ended his political career. Even though re-elected, he has clearly been deemed a major liability by those who we hope to expose as being far more suspect to the puppet Chalkley.

    Suffice to say though, we warned the hapless fool that his job will go if you mess with the bikers, and the same now applies to his replacement, the new puppet on the WCC block and next to lose his political career unless he scraps this insidious tax. The Court Date is now fixed

    It has now been confirmed that our case will be heard on Thursday 24th June with a second day on the Friday if necessary. As soon as we know the numbers that will be allowed in the public galleries (over and above the already growing press list), we will let you know.

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    COUNCILS ABUSING SPYING POWERS
    spy van MOST COUNCIL LEADERS AND COUNCILLORS ARE ALL MASONS
    Councils spied on dog walkers suspected of not clearing up after their pets in a string of abuses of their covert surveillance rights, a new report has said.

    The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) was used on average 11 times a day by councils in England, Wales and Scotland over the past two years, according to Big Brother Watch. The organisation, which campaigns against intrusions of privacy, quizzed local authorities about their use of the powers under the Freedom of Information Act. They say the results, published in their report entitled The Grim Ripa, show "absurd" practices. Ripa allows councils to use methods such as bugging houses and vehicles, following people and using informers.

    The 372 authorities which responded revealed they conducted surveillance operations using the act in 8,575 instances since April 1, 2008. Councils' powers to use it are to be curbed under plans announced by the new coalition Government, who said: "We will ban the use of powers in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) by councils, unless they are signed off by a magistrate and required for stopping serious crime." Alex Deane, director of Big Brother Watch, said: "Now that the absurd and excessive use of Ripa surveillance has been revealed, these powers have to be taken away from councils. The coalition Government plan to force councils to get warrants before snooping on us is good but doesn't go far enough. If the offence is serious enough to merit covert surveillance, then it should be in the hands of the police."

    The report showed councils in Hambleton, north Yorkshire, and the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham used the act to check on their own employees suspected of falsely claiming illness. Other councils said they monitored customers smoking and drinking outside a pub, and investigated the "fly tipping" of clothes outside a charity shop. More than 12 local authorities admitted using the act to check up on dog owners whose animals were suspected of dog fouling, with Allerdale Council in Cumbria reporting six such incidences of surveillance. The council said the purpose of one of the investigations was: "To obtain evidence to see if (a) person is walking their dog, cleaning up after it but then depositing poop bag in trees, grass, or on road." Big Brother Watch said that Newcastle-upon-Tyne was the local authority which used the act the most often - 231 times in the space of two years.

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    PCN RACKET IN UK
    no to bike parking This is currently being discussed in the public domain and has been noticed, I assure you.

    What brought this to the attention of quite a large number of people is the current use by the state of "bulk clearing courts" like the one in Northampton. To clarify: At this time in great britain we have a PCN culture (penalty charge notice) where fines are proliferating like snowflakes in a blizzard. This is due to the New Labours (and probably the marxist new conservatives') attempt to create revenue streams for an ever expanding state system.

    Ok, so how to get around the various protections we enjoy in our common law system? We have the common law that no citizen shall be deprived of his/her property without due process (bill of rights). Said process must be by a court and a jury or a properly bonded justice who is backed up by worthy affidavits. The sheer scale of fines in the UK Plc assures that these processes cannot be adhered to: So what does the state do? It breaks the law. It creates Bulk clearing Houses (called courts) similar to those used in banking. Let us say a county council wishes to enforce a PCN: It pays a fee to say , the Northampton bulk clearing "court" which issues a writ of execution which supposedly compels the scoundrel to pay the penalty.

    The Writ is unsigned and illegal: But is still accepted by the county council and the Bailiffs, to the end that they will intimidate a citizen into paying an ever increasing sum or steal (and it is theft) ones goods and properties. Such Bailiffs (who often are not certified bailiffs) are often accompanied by police. Very often if these policemen are put on their oath they will not enter the dispute unless there is a fracas. PCSO's, who are not sworn would support this epidemic of illegal intimidation currently used and supported by the states' extensions. There are other protections like the bills and exchange act and the bankruptcy act. But the scale of the illegal enforcement is massive indeed.
    by harry fredericks

  • Dishonour Of the Bankruptcy by Bromley Council
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    WESTMINSTER PARKING THUGS SCREWING £120 A TIME FROM BIKERS

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    WESTMINSTER COUNCIL'S DODGY PARKING CONTRACT DEALS
    no to bike parking PARKING IS A MULTI-MILLION POUND RACKET FOR THE VERY CORRUPT WESTMINSTER MASONIC TOERAGS RUNNING THE COUNCIL FOR THEIR OWN SELF ENRICHMENT

    Revealed: ‘fiasco’ of Westminster’s parking contract

    If any of London's newly-elected councillors want a lesson in how not to run a contract-bidding process, they might like to take a field trip to Westminster. The Conservative-run council has spent six months and more than £1 million trying to award a £50 million parking contract.

    After a long-running process that saw Westminster award the contract to a new firm, revoke the appointment, fight a law suit, and re-open the expensive tendering process for a second time, the Evening Standard can reveal it has now decided to stick with its incumbent parking company. Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg, Labour leader in Westminster, today called for heads to roll over what he termed a “very unsatisfactory and expensive fiasco”. The long-running process began at the end of last year when the council launched a procurement process for bidders to apply to run its parking contract. Then in February Westminster named Mouchel, the FTSE-listed support services group, as its preferred bidder for the four-year contract to provide parking enforcement services for the borough. Mouchel then happily told shareholders at its half-year update in February: “It has been confirmed that we have been appointed as preferred bidder in Westminster, the largest on-street parking enforcement and city management service contract in Europe. The commission is for a four-year period (extendable to six).” But not so fast, Mouchel. That was just the start of a near-farcical process which is said to have cost local taxpayers £1.1 million and has been branded “totally unprecedented” by perplexed contractors.

    After naming the firm as its top choice, Westminster then admitted it had botched part of the procurement procedure. In-house lawyers discovered “a flaw in the contract document” which meant the council had to re-open the bidding. That admission then sparked complaints from one of the bidders, Apcoa of the US, one of the world's biggest parking enforcement companies. Westminster then ran the entire tender again but with a new clause that effectively excluded Apcoa from bidding. Enraged, Apcoa launched a legal action to get the decision overturned but recently lost the case. Now the Evening Standard has discovered that Mouchel has been stripped of its preferred status, with Westminster instead awarding that status to NSL, the parking giant formerly known as NCP, which has been operating the contract for the past seven years.

    Mouchel insiders said they were furious at the action and may appeal. Apcoa is also expected to protest. The preferred bidder status means NSL could be re-awarded the deal as early as next week. Labour leader Dimoldenberg said: “This whole process has cost the council over £1.1 million. Now we find the original contractor has got the job. It's a ridiculous, crazy situation. Residents and motorists are entitled to a full explanation over this mismanaged parking contract. Somebody at Westminster needs to take personal responsibility for this very unsatisfactory and expensive fiasco which has revealed very serious failures.”

    Campaigners called for an official inquiry into how the contract was awarded. Graham Jones, spokesman for the campaign group No to the Bike Parking Tax, said: “Westminster awarded the contract to Mouchel, then faced a legal challenge which was thrown out of court, so why did it not stick with its original decision? This scandal requires a council inquiry.” Kevin Goad, Westminster council's head of commissioning, said: “Following the discovery of a flaw in the initial contract process we stopped the procurement exercise. This was to ensure we were being fair and transparent to all those involved in the process which was the right and legal course of action to take. This week, the council has named a preferred bidder for its new parking enforcement contract. We are currently in a ten-day standstill period and expect to sign the formal contract with them later this month. “Any additional costs incurred through this process will be recovered many times over through substantial savings with the new contract.”

    Tim Cowen of NSL commented: “We have noted the announcement that we are preferred bidder but would not wish to comment further because of the legal 10-day standstill period.” An insider in the parking enforcement industry stalwart said he “couldn't recall a process quite like this ever before”. He added: “We're now in tthe standstill period, when it would normally be very, very unusual for a challenge to crop up, but the rest of this case has been unprecedented, so who knows?”

    The £50 million contract covers monitoring and maintenance of CCTV cameras to pick up illegal U-turns, illegal driving in box junctions and other parking offences. It also pays for the 100 or so parking attendants patrolling the streets of Westminster. Danny Chalkley, Westminster's cabinet member for city management, did not respond to calls.

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    COUNCIL PARKING TICKET THUGS AND THEIR ILLEGAL SCAMS VIDEO
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    LONDON'S £1,000,000 PER MONTH TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT CAMERA VIDEO
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    LONDON BIKER PROTEST INTERRUPTS WESTMINSTER ELECTION BROADCAST VIDEO
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    PUBLIC BODIES BECOMING EVEN MORE SECRETIVE
    council spying Councils another arm of the New World Order thugs. More people threatened in the UK by council bully boys than any other arm of the NWO mafia. Local newspapers themselves cover up plenty for councils who fund them using full page ads.

    Most local newspaper editors believe getting information out of councils, police and health authorities is becoming harder, a survey has revealed. Research carried out by the Newspaper Society found that nearly 80pc of editors believe public bodies are becoming more secretive, despite the Freedom of Information Act.

    It found that 35pc of them had experienced having a reporter either prevented from attending a public meeting or prevented from reporting details from it, although two thirds of editors who challenged such rulings were successful. Just 10 per cent of editors from weekly and daily titles said getting information from public bodies had become easier in recent years while 13 per cent said it was neither harder nor easier. The online survey of local newspaper editors was conducted for Local Newspaper Week, which starts today. It also found that the average newspaper attends 12 meetings of public bodies a month and publishes around 30 stories from these meetings.

    NS communications director Lynne Anderson said: "The findings of this survey point towards an extremely worrying trend of increased secrecy among public bodies making it harder for local newspapers to perform their scrutinising role on behalf of their readers. "Local newspapers act as a watchdog for democracy by shining a spotlight on the workings of public bodies and it cannot be right for this vital function to be undermined."

    Other findings included:

    # More than a fifth of local newspapers use digital technology such as Twitter to report live from public meetings.

    # The average local newspaper successfully challenged a reporting restriction on 3.2 occasions in the past year.

    # The average local paper will have a reporter covering a criminal court on an average of 2.3 days out five.

    # The average local newspaper submitted 16 FoI requests last year and in 81pc of cases, the information requested was successfully obtained.

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    FACEJACKER EXPOSES PAY BY PHONE PARKING FLAWS USED EXTENSIVELY IN LONDON VIDEO
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    • THE NEW WORLD ORDER'S PAY BY PHONE PARKING AND EXTORTION SCAMS COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU SOON ALMOST ENTIRELY CONCEIVED AND CONTROLLED BY THE MASONIC MAFIA RUNNING WESTMINSTER. THE TESTING GROUND FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL BE USED TO ASSET STRIP THE LONG SUFFERING PUBLIC.

    Westminster's Pay By Phone, is it safe – no

    Westminster City Council are the only Council in Britain to have gone for a totally cashless parking system, with the last meter being removed on the 6th May 2009. Since then the only practical way to pay for parking, if you have the misfortune to pitch-up in the borough of Westminster, has been to bring a credit card and a fully charged mobile phone with you. Cashless parking was the dream on one Westminster Council officer Alastair Gilchrist, a dream which could cost the taxpayers of Westminster millions of pounds over legal actions happening right now against the Council. Gilchrist arrogantly ignored claims that going completely cashless for parking would exclude some members of society who don’t have a mobile phone or credit card.

    A campaign was started by Joan Bakewell to try to get the council to see sense. Eventually the council introduced a card to stick inside your windscreen, but you can only buy these cards from one of the three council ‘one stop’ shops or from a library. It’s highly likely that you’ll receive a parking ticket whilst you queue to buy your £2 parking scratch card. There is however no such cash alternative if you’re a scooter or motorbike rider. Gilchrist just couldn’t give a toss about them, as for him it’s all about the money. Gilchrist and his gullible puppet Councilor Danny Chalkley have effectively put two fingers up to you if you’re on two wheels, making the borough of Westminster out of bounds. No the 16th level of a multi story car park is not a viable solution for riders, see sense! Why go cashless in the first place? To increase revenue though lower costs, cash is more expensive for the council to handle than electronic money. Chalkley also made a big story out of the Albanian Mafia stealing the councils parking revenue from the streets. When pressed on his evidence, all he could say was he read it in a paper, so nothing more than a story (see this nothing tangible at all FOI answer). Based on a story, and a drive to pass on lucrative contracts to their close friends in private business who run the pay by phone system. Chakley and Gilchrist landed us with one of the UK’s biggest lemons in the pay by phone industry, the one supplied by Verrus, now owned by PayPoint.

    Since the introduction in August 2008 of the cashless bike parking tax, the odious Chalkley & Gilchrist have ignored the concerns regarding Verrus pay by phone security raised by the No To Bike Parking Tax campaign group. As far as Chalkley & Gilchrist are concerned, so long as the councils money is safe, the public can be ignored. This is despite serious concerns over the security of Westminsters Verrus supplied pay by phone system. But the NTBPT group are not the only ones shouting about this, Labour MP John Robertson, a data protection campaigner, said: “These schemes sound like an easy way for criminals to get money.” “I would like to know what these councils are doing to stop personal information being scanned by others ? and what compensation, if any, they will offer to people who lose money through fraudulent activity.” Former Tory minister Sir Philip Goodhart. said that he finds the system so inconvenient that he has stopped bringing his car into Central London.”It is impossible for many people to have a mobile phone in their pocket all the time” said Goodhart. Mr Hawkes, of security company Broca Communications said “The only thing missing is the guy with a baseball bat waiting round the corner.” He added: “Councils need to stop and think how they should be protecting their customers. At the moment they are creating a honeypot for fraudsters.” (View source)

    Early on, BBC’s Watchdog program highlighted flaws in the system, this was followed by a feature on BBC3’s The Real Hustle series, where a simple pay by phone scam was tested in a car park, using fake signs to harvest the publics credit card details. Now Channel 4’s new comedy series Facejacker has shown just how you can collect unsuspecting drivers and riders credit card details with just a roll of masking tape, felt tip pen and a mobile phone. As Facejacker says on the video “Parking control equals wallet control”.

    Scrap the bike parking tax, before Westminster become even more of a laughing stock than they already are.

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  • WESTMINSTER'S CORRUPT 'PAY BY PHONE' PARKING SCAMS
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    WESTMINSTER COUNCIL LEADER THREATENS MOTORBIKE PARKING PROTESTORS
    You must read the letter attached. Its from a very big firm of lawyers, and they say, and being big lawyers its must be absolutely, and incontrovertibly true , that Colin is NOT a bad person for being part of a company that went bust owing Westminster Council (the Council he leads) more than £19k....... no! wait a minute, according to the liquidators, Colin's company owed £68k.

    Now that's strange, because Colin's other concern, WCC, in a reply to a request made under the FOI Act, have categorically stated that Colin's company, Eiger Capital only owed the Council £19k. Anyway.....so, so SORRY COLIN - hope nobody here has got the wrong impression of you!!
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    PARKING FINES MASSIVE COMPARED WITH CRIMINAL FINES
    Soft-touch justice means crime pays

    Real crooks are being punished less severely than illegal parkers.THIEVES, vandals, arsonists and thugs are being handed fines lower than those given to drivers caught parking without a ticket. In a shocking example of Scotland’s so-called soft-touch justice system, one criminal was ordered to pay just £5 after being convicted of shoplifting. Another found guilty of fire-raising was “let off” with a £40 fine while a yob charged with petty assault walked away from court owing only £30. By contrast, a minor parking infringement currently earns a £60 fine in Scotland, with plans to raise the penalty to £100. Critics have branded the disparities between the fines as disgraceful.

    No deterrent

    Richard Baker, Labour’s shadow justice spokesman, said, “A £5 penalty for shoplifting is not going to provide any kind of deterrent. “People will also be deeply concerned at some of the extremely low fines being given to those convicted of fire-raising and petty assault. “But perhaps even more depressing is the fact the Scottish Government has an agenda to increase the use of fines for more serious offences. “This is another example of their soft approach to crime.”

    Courts are ordered to link the level of fines to an offenders’ ability to pay. This means criminals reliant on state benefits and who are often addicted to drugs, receive lower fines. The minimum, maximum and average levels of fines handed down over the last five years have been revealed by the Scottish Government.

    Drop

    Their figures show a drop in the average amount demanded from arsonists from £289 to £261. There was also a fall in fines meted out to robbers, from £303 to £277. Taking inflation into account, vandals, shoplifters and those convicted of petty assault are also being dealt with more leniently. Critics say the figures for shoplifters, who often steal to order for organised crime lords, are particularly concerning. Richard Dodd, of the Scottish Retail Consortium, said, “There’s a widespread perception that shoplifting is victimless and doesn’t need a serious deterrent.

    “That’s absolutely wrong. Shoplifting often has human consequences for the staff who are subjected to abuse and violence when they step in to stop people stealing. “But there is also an enormous financial cost — the average value of goods stolen by shoplifters is £150, which ultimately is borne by honest customers. “Overwhelmingly this crime is driven by people stealing in an organised way. Small-scale fines are completely inadequate.”

    No confidence

    Keith Peat, a former traffic policeman who now represents the Association of British Drivers, added, “The public deplore criminals who carry out these anti-social crimes yet they are being ordered to pay up to 12 times less than a driver criminalised for an infringement. It is little wonder no-one has any confidence in the justice system.” A Scottish Government spokesman said it was up to judges to decide the level of fine to impose based on the facts of the case. He added, “Clearly Scottish ministers do not make these decisions. Scottish law states that a court, in determining the amount of any fine to be imposed on an offender, shall take into consideration, amongst other things, the means of the offender so far as known to the court — and this has been the law since at least 1954.”

    However, he added that ministers want to see greater consistency and transparency in decisions taken by courts. In light of this, they are planning to create a Scottish Sentencing Council, which will develop a system of sentencing guidelines. The proposal is included in the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill, currently going through Holyrood.

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    APPALLING COUNCIL THUGS THREATEN 102 YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH BAILIFFS

    ethel branton Britains masonic run councils have a long history of abusing and bullying the public.This is only one EXTREME example of how daily vulnerable victims are threatened by the thug bailiffs used by CORRUPT councils and their abuse of power.
    A council sent a court summons to a frail 102-year-old woman who has dementia and lives in a nursing home. Wheelchair-bound Ethel Branton was threatened with bailiffs for non-payment of council tax in a letter from officials at Islington Town Hall.

    She is exempt from the tax as she is in residential care at the Bridgeside Lodge Care Centre, in Wharf Road, Islington. But last week she received a letter ordering her to appear in the dock at Highbury Corner magistrates' court and insisting she pay £262 in unpaid council tax and £150 in costs. Her son Bob Branton, 80, criticised the "appalling threat letter" from the council which he said could have caused his mother to keel over in shock. He said "I was incensed when I saw that letter. It threatens her with bailiffs and insolvency, which is very alarming for someone of mum's age. She could have had a heart attack and dropped down dead."

    Mrs Branton, who has lived in Islington all her life and was bombed out of two homes in the space of three weeks during the Second World War, moved into the nursing home after giving up her flat in sheltered housing late last year. She received council tax benefit and housing benefit until then, and payments should have stopped when Mr Branton telephoned the council about her move. He added: "I wrote to them another two or three times after that and I thought it was sorted. They know all about mum's circumstances. But dealing with this bureaucracy is a nightmare. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. "They might be apologetic now, but the point is it should never have happened in the first place. What if it was someone who has no family to help?" Islington c ouncil has now apologised, withdrawn the court summons and offered Mrs Branton £50 in compensation.

    A spokesman said today: "We are very sorry for this mistake, and the distress caused to Mrs Branton and her family. We would never knowingly summons a vulnerable 102-year-old person for non-payment of council tax, whatever their circumstances. There was an internal failure to share information. Lessons will be learned."

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    PARKING A NEW WORLD ORDER EXTORTION TOOL

    For anyone who DOES NOT believe parking is a major revenue gatherer for the New World Order Agenda this image sums up what is going on. It fails to actually take account of the fine system which is much more ruthless than the actually parking charges.

    Our means of transport is a massive hidden tax raising scam that if you look at it logically it is a form of portable home that on every occasion you stop you are a potential target for the parking mafia assigned to bleed you dry. We are also aware that anyone who tries to defend these dodgy parking scams and their ticketing systems could find themselves having their houses repossessed to pay for the massive escalation in costs when the New World Order gangsters send in their bailiffs who will remove your assets and your home to repay the accumulative fines that can then stretch into many thousands of pounds or dollars.

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