Brent Council - voted to twin Brent with Nablus on the West Bank Well, that really reflects the whole diverse community in the borough. Fortunately I live in neighbouring Ealing - twinned with Pyongyang (only joshing) Seriously though. Protesting against the situations in Gaza & the West Bank is perfectly legitimate in my view. But twinning your borough in this way is (again in my view) divisive, provocative and alienating & threatening to Brent's Jewish community. Q: Don't Brent's Councillors have anything better to do? A: Yes - charging me £240 for stopping inside a box junction Bastids!
Bloody hell,that's gone up. The motorist is a cash cow these days, easy to identify and convict with so many cameras around. Try driving round Nottingham with all its bus lanes even bus streets, and cameras if you don't know your way round. And you can't even stop anywhere once you're in it.
To be fair to Brent (if I must) it's partly the fault of the Post Office too I was cut up in a box junction about 6 weeks ago, and stopped in it for all of 20 seconds. The letter I got the other day claims it's the 3rd one they sent me, and threatened debt recovery etc. It was the first I had heard of it. Unfortunately by the time it gets that far there is no discount option. It's "pay or we'll take it away". Yesterday while driving my old mum home from a hospital appointment I crossed a red light at a junction on Woolwich Common to make way for an ambulance in a hurry. I'll probably get 3 points & a fine for that London's roads - where no good deed goes unpunished.
These private parking firms are dodgy barsteds. At the car park underneath M&S Sevenoaks they fined my wife £55 by showing a photo of her leaving, but altering the time by one hour. She appealed at first but eventually got fed up and paid. Since then we've found out that several people have had the same thing. That car park is not owned by M&S. The Ringo App seems to have large parts of Kent sownup, and they are dear; wanted £6 for an hour at CamberSands.Shockin, juss shockin.
