Congestion Zone Stalinist Oppression Woe...
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This is an absolute corker, thoroughly underlining what a lightly veiled veneer of sneering, malignent, communist oppression and jobs for the nobs Red Ken's virulent anti-capitalist regime truly represents: business oppression via the most opaque monolith of bureaucratic obfuscation yet seen outside of The Soviet Peoples' Republic Of South Yorkshire's Equality Department.
Most days of the week, we have at least one vehicle transgressing the threshold of Kenneth's utopian forcefield.
Like most businesses held at gunpoint to finance this week's latest workshop for vertiaclly challenged, Martian Plantagenets, we pay his criminally extortionate charge for the furtherment of economic collapse via number plate recognition and on account, in the time honoured tradition of state robbery.
However, some months ago, one of our invoices, for £5, was queried. We had apparently not paid it. This was odd because it had been part of an statement total which had indeed been settled.
To cut an isane story mercifully short, we said we had and provided - repeatedly - supporting evidence but each time they simply said 'non,' like the French guardsman in Monty Python's Holy Grail and we thought "snakes alive, this is a bit of a rum 'un!"
As this scarcely credible sequence of lunacy played out, we enlisted the principled help of our local (labour) MP who looked at the situation, apolgised to us and sent a personal letter to Comrade Ken in which he asked wasn't this all just a bit silly?
Kremlin Ken's Transport for London (TFL) Stasi's response was a brace of burly baliffs who, once we'd finsihed laughing and throwing rancid tomatoes at, were sent duly packing with a small bun each, back to the bosom of Islingtonian Bolshevism and a challenge to a game of conkers at dawn, outside his newly opened Fallopian Outreach Centre in Hackney.
Meanwhile, the file grew thicker, by now, several filing cabinets tall.
To the rub and only now, at the end, do we witness the true terror of Ken's dictatorial grip on the feifdom of London town. Our cries for clemency and reason ignored, whatever pointless arbtration exists in statute has only meaning or benefit for one party, TFL itself and basically what they says goes, so there and that'll be a £100 fine or we'll raise it to £150 and see you in court.
My God, what? How? Wh...
I swear, if I had the time, I'd do it but really, the appalling way this awful little man is conducting matters like this and that people seriously follow his lunacy as blueprintable conceptualities for other connurbations is unbelievably frightening.
He is the standard bearer for the dead left and in him the spirit of Red Robbo finds re-energised purpose; that Ken courts slippery favour and an oily grasp on the capital a chilling indictment of how susceptible the intelligentsia has become to the blatent ravages of 100%, pure communism.
Abysmal!
Most days of the week, we have at least one vehicle transgressing the threshold of Kenneth's utopian forcefield.
Like most businesses held at gunpoint to finance this week's latest workshop for vertiaclly challenged, Martian Plantagenets, we pay his criminally extortionate charge for the furtherment of economic collapse via number plate recognition and on account, in the time honoured tradition of state robbery.
However, some months ago, one of our invoices, for £5, was queried. We had apparently not paid it. This was odd because it had been part of an statement total which had indeed been settled.
To cut an isane story mercifully short, we said we had and provided - repeatedly - supporting evidence but each time they simply said 'non,' like the French guardsman in Monty Python's Holy Grail and we thought "snakes alive, this is a bit of a rum 'un!"
As this scarcely credible sequence of lunacy played out, we enlisted the principled help of our local (labour) MP who looked at the situation, apolgised to us and sent a personal letter to Comrade Ken in which he asked wasn't this all just a bit silly?
Kremlin Ken's Transport for London (TFL) Stasi's response was a brace of burly baliffs who, once we'd finsihed laughing and throwing rancid tomatoes at, were sent duly packing with a small bun each, back to the bosom of Islingtonian Bolshevism and a challenge to a game of conkers at dawn, outside his newly opened Fallopian Outreach Centre in Hackney.
Meanwhile, the file grew thicker, by now, several filing cabinets tall.
To the rub and only now, at the end, do we witness the true terror of Ken's dictatorial grip on the feifdom of London town. Our cries for clemency and reason ignored, whatever pointless arbtration exists in statute has only meaning or benefit for one party, TFL itself and basically what they says goes, so there and that'll be a £100 fine or we'll raise it to £150 and see you in court.
My God, what? How? Wh...
I swear, if I had the time, I'd do it but really, the appalling way this awful little man is conducting matters like this and that people seriously follow his lunacy as blueprintable conceptualities for other connurbations is unbelievably frightening.
He is the standard bearer for the dead left and in him the spirit of Red Robbo finds re-energised purpose; that Ken courts slippery favour and an oily grasp on the capital a chilling indictment of how susceptible the intelligentsia has become to the blatent ravages of 100%, pure communism.
Abysmal!
Sounds like a challenge to me Simon. Do you have a minion responsible for the "Fighting the Godless" department? This may well be a mission for them, or you could hire a YTS trainee to follow this through.
Seriously, sounds like you have evidence to prove payment, ample evidence of previous payments en masse, and a plentiful heap of correspondence to prove willingness to negotiate with the newt handler, which should go a long way to prove your side in open court. Granted the process and procedure of the TfL arbitration monkeys may well sway to their own side, but faith in our judiciary in a motoring matter should grant you the shield like faith required...oh..just re-read that last bit...you're buggered. Pay up.
Seriously, sounds like you have evidence to prove payment, ample evidence of previous payments en masse, and a plentiful heap of correspondence to prove willingness to negotiate with the newt handler, which should go a long way to prove your side in open court. Granted the process and procedure of the TfL arbitration monkeys may well sway to their own side, but faith in our judiciary in a motoring matter should grant you the shield like faith required...oh..just re-read that last bit...you're buggered. Pay up.
So, let me get this straight:
1) You've paid, and have documentary evidence to support this?
2) They (still) say you haven't?
Bollocks. See them in court. Take one of Dickie Bransons finest there and quaff liberally toasting your impending victory. Get to court and have your day.
As Arnie once barked at Bennett in the unforgettable Commando.....DO IT!!!!!!!!
1) You've paid, and have documentary evidence to support this?
2) They (still) say you haven't?
Bollocks. See them in court. Take one of Dickie Bransons finest there and quaff liberally toasting your impending victory. Get to court and have your day.
As Arnie once barked at Bennett in the unforgettable Commando.....DO IT!!!!!!!!
Is it still true that the only thing keeping the TFL Congestion Charging Company alive is the fines?
I'd read some years back that if everyone actually paid the charge, they'd go out of business, might explain why they are so determned to to chase you for a £100.
No doubt they'd prefer to hit you for £150, Jeez £5 to £150 - that's one hell of a return for just writing a few threatening letters!
I'd read some years back that if everyone actually paid the charge, they'd go out of business, might explain why they are so determned to to chase you for a £100.
No doubt they'd prefer to hit you for £150, Jeez £5 to £150 - that's one hell of a return for just writing a few threatening letters!
Play them at their own game and write a letter back...
Dear Sirs,
We've paid & shown you the documentary evidence and you still deny it. That'll be a £100 "processing" fee, and if you don't pay that we'll raise it to £150 and see you in court.
Yours
etc.
If they can trump up extra fines/charges, why can't you?
Dear Sirs,
We've paid & shown you the documentary evidence and you still deny it. That'll be a £100 "processing" fee, and if you don't pay that we'll raise it to £150 and see you in court.
Yours
etc.
If they can trump up extra fines/charges, why can't you?
.Yugguy said:
If you Londoners don't like the slimy foul retard as mayor perhaps you shouldn't have voted for him in the first place. Wasn't it obvious he'd turn out to be a ?
I think you'll find DeR is a citizen of the Peoples' Republic of Oop North, and that it is business matters that force his minions southwards piloting their trucks full of AV goodness.
Yugguy said:
If you Londoners don't like the slimy foul retard as mayor perhaps you shouldn't have voted for him in the first place. Wasn't it obvious he'd turn out to be a
Ahhhhh.... I am a Londoner, and I didn't vote for the odious newt fancier as I just about remember him from his time as leader of the GLC. Unfortunately many of my fellow Londoners weren't in the country when he was hacking up the capital last time round, and of those that were many more (retards in my view) fell for the "he hates Tony, and he's been kicked out of the Labour Party, so he must be good" campaign that he very successfuly ran. The worst part, like so much recent politics in the uk, is that having seen his true colours during his first term, people went out and voted for him again, partly of course due to the lack of a creible opposition. Hopefully we'll all do better next time round.
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