11 June (Part 2) - Rising discontent
I was hitching a lift into town and after negotiating
the yellow box junctions and
temporary traffic lights the driver suddenly piped up with “Y’know, I used to
really like driving” from which the conversation developed into the usual ‘the
politicians all hate us’ and on to ‘keep on resisting until the ballot box defeats them
or Britain has its own Ceaușescu moment’.
Even at the lowest level politicians and the laws they impose are too often
crazy. I have long felt that it should be law that every new one must be
accompanied by the cancellation of two old ones; otherwise there will be no freedoms left
and the police state we are already beginning to see will take over completely.
(I am hoping that they are too ignorant to know who Nicolae was.)
Here’s a little bit of minor craziness photographed yesterday.
Leaving
a wheel on the footpath is illegal because it potentially blocks it; fair
enough, but you can block it completely and be immune from prosecution (Photo 2)
because the laws were signed off by an idiot politician.
Talking of which, what about the width of parking bays? (Photo 3.) 23 years ago, almost to
the day; I was having my own @tonyofsidcup moment and challenging Bexley Council
over the changes being made to Abbey Road.
Bexley Council lied that the parking bays were wide enough to comply with the regulations…
So I went out with my tape measure before replying…
My recollection is that wide vehicles would be ticketed unless successfully
challenged in Court but as I cannot find the letter maybe I imagined it.
I don’t know what that blue car is but a Landrover Discovery is exactly 2 metres
wide. My sub-1·7 metre measurement was on the opposite side of Abbey Road to that shown here.
Can
a pile of rubbish get a parking ticket? A week ago
Bexley Council destroyed the
paved footpath close to home and dumped the old stones on a corner previously
designated as a dangerous place to stop. Why. The contractor when on site had a big enough truck.