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    • just to be clear here..... the DVLA do not send letters if a drivers licence address differs from any car's V5C that shows the same driver as it's registered keeper.
    • sorry she is a private individual, the cars are parking on her land. she can clamp the cars. only firms were outlawed from doing it bazza. thats what the victims of people dumping cars on their drives near airports did and they didn't not get prosecuted.    
    • The DVLA keeps two records of you. One as a driver and one for your car. If they differ you might find out in around a month when they will send you a reminder as well as to your other half for their car. If you receive nothing then you can be fairly sure that you were tailgating though wouldn't explain why they didn't pick up your car on one of drive past their cameras. However even if you do get a PCN later then your situation will not change. The current PCN does not comply with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4 which is the main law that covers private parking. It doesn't comply for two reasons. 1. Section 9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN states 47 minutes which are the arrival and departure times not the time you were actually parked. if you subtract the time you took to drive from the entrance. look for a parking place  park in it perhaps having to manoeuvre a couple of times to fit within the lines and unload the children reloading the children getting seat belts on  driving to the exit stopping for cars pedestrians on the way you may well find that the actual time you were parked was quite likely to be around ten minutes over the required time.  Motorists are allowed a MINIMUM of ten minutes Grace period [something that the rogues in the parking industry conveniently forget-the word minimum] . So it could be that you did not overstay. 2] Sectio9 [2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; Your PCN does not include the words in brackets and in 2a the Act included the word "must". Another fail. What those failures mean is that MET cannot transfer the liability to pay the charge from the driver to the keeper. Only the driver is now liable which is why we recommend our members not to appeal. It is so easy to reveal who was driving by saying "when I parked the car" than "when the driver parked the car".  As long as they don't know who was driving they have little chance of winning in court. This is partly because Courts do not accept that the driver and the keeper are the same person. And because anyone with a valid motor insurance policy is able to drive your cars. It is a shame that you are too far away to get photos of the car park signage. It is often poor and quite often the parking rogues lose in Court on their poor signage alone. I hope hat you can now relax and not panic about the PCN. You will receive many letters from Met, their unregulated debt collectors and sixth rate solicitors threatening you with ever higher amounts of money. The poor dears have never read the Act which states quite clearly that the maximum sum that can be charged is the amount on the signs. The Act has only been in force for 12 years so it may take a  few more years for the penny to drop.  You can safely ignore everything they send you unless or until they send you a Letter of Claim. Just come back to us if they do send one of those love letters to you and we will advise on a snotty letter to send them. In the meantime go on and enjoy your life. Continue reading other threads and if you do get any worrying letters let us know. 
    • Hopefully the ANPR cameras didn't pick up the two vehicles, but I don't think you're out of the woods just yet. MET's "work" consists of sending out hundreds of these invoices every week so yours might be a few days behind your partner's. There is also the matter of Royal Mail.  I once sold two second-hand books to someone on eBay.  Weirdly the cost of sending them separately was less than the cost of sending them in one parcel.  So to save a few bob I sent them seperately.  One turned up the next day.  One arrived after four days.  They were  sent from the same post office at the same time! But let's hope I'm being too pessimistic. Please update us of any developments.
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Holy Mackerel, Batman!

 

You thought Blair & Co were set on trampling on individual liberties?

 

Well, their problem was they obviously thought too small. Meet the man who's intent on doing it from the top:

 

Metro UK - 20/05/2010 digital edition

 

First, the 55%, then this? I knew he was related to the Queen, I didn't realise he was intent in becoming King himself! Well, when I say King... I think the correct word is actually "dictator". :-|

 

Ah well, look on the bright side. At least you'll get the chance to kick them out in 5 years, which is more than you can say for the people who make most of our laws. Plus, Gordon has gone!

 

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I have always thought that Lewis Hamilton was too young for his job. Does win some, but has lost many races through rash, ill judged decisions (just like a typical teenager). I think his younger age has a lot to do with it.

 

I have the same feeling with these 2 barn pots running the country. We are going to suffer more than we have done lately. Mark my words.

 

Metro UK - 20/05/2010 digital edition

 

 

And so it begins:(

 

 

(Thanks for that link Bookster);)

 

 

If all else fails, kick them where it hurts and SOD'EM;)

 

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That is absolutely fantastic. The whole thing has been totally ridiculous. You either like a house and want it, or you don't. You don't buy a house because of its energy certificate, and half the time a conveyancing solicitor will do the work again anyway.

 

Well it was probably all to do with Gordon's ever-growing list of stealth taxes. We're probably still lumbered with most of them and will be until the mess that Labour left behind is sorted out.

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Gordon Brown is not the Labour party :rolleyes:

 

ConDem will do far, far worse ;)

 

We shall see. For me, it's difficult to see how anything could be worse than Brown and the Labour party. Let's face it, we would be in for a tough time whoever had been voted in because of the mess Labour made of the economy. In a way, I would like to have seen Brown left where he was to clear it up, but it's been left to the other two.

 

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The thing about Gordon, and the Labour Party, is that actually they did lots of good things for some people. My elderly mother says she's now financially secure thanks to things like Winter Fuel payments, no tv licence and other minor benefits, but it's at the expense of lots of other people's tax bills, including mine ( when I was working;))

 

No matter how hard they try, Labour will always be a tax-and-spend party, and are too nervous to take the really hard decisions that the current economic realities demand. Take the VAT reduction for example. Who rushed out to spend because there was 2 1/2% off the prices, when the majority of retailers were already knocking 30% off their prices in an effort to get us to part with our money.

 

All it did was reduce the Govt's income by £12bn, and allow Gordon and his pals to say they were taking action to help the economy.........and that's the line they'd continue to adopt if they were still in power. All talk and not much action

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Good news also that HIP, (Home Information Pack) is also ending!

Hmmm... Not so good news for the people who have trained, invested, and got a job they thought would be for a long time to deal with them and are now out of a job with no warning. :rolleyes:

 

Not so good news for people who will now go back to pay for searches instead.

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Ah well, look on the bright side. At least you'll get the chance to kick them out in 5 years,

Here's hoping... But if you can't see that he is already changing things within 1 week so he can't get challenged or kicked out, then you need to wake up. This is just the top of the iceberg, mark my words. :-(

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Here's hoping... But if you can't see that he is already changing things within 1 week so he can't get challenged or kicked out, then you need to wake up. This is just the top of the iceberg, mark my words. :-(

 

Like I said before Bookie, I'm relaxed about things. Not because I particularly like what we've got, but because it's too early to tell yet. I can't see this lasting for too long to be honest but whatever happens we will all suffer because of the mess left behind by Gordon Brown and Labour.

 

One thing is for sure - not one of the tens of millions of voters got the government they chose on May 6th. I can't see Cameron getting too out of hand because his coalition partners won't let him. Let's just see.

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Hmmm... Not so good news for the people who have trained, invested, and got a job they thought would be for a long time to deal with them and are now out of a job with no warning. :rolleyes:

 

Not so good news for people who will now go back to pay for searches instead.

 

 

But that's the problem exactly......unnecessary, comfortable public sector jobs, to massage the jobless totals.

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But that's the problem exactly......unnecessary, comfortable public sector jobs, to massage the jobless totals.

 

Precisely. All at high salaries, inflation-busting pay rises and big pensions, paid for by those of us in the private sector, the wealth makers, who are not afforded the same luxury.

 

Before anyone whinges about that comment, my Wife works in the Public sector in a very non-cushy job and my Daughter is a student Nurse - also not a cushy vocation. I am not against the public sector per se, just those in it who do totally unnecessary jobs and I am sure there are plenty of those. Mind you, I'm not sure that we will see the back of all of the non-jobs while Clegg's mob have a say but that remains to be seen.

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Agree Fred!

 

This also looks to be a step in the right direction:

Credit Today online

 

Well if Credit Today and its cronies are against it, it must be good news for the rest of us.

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To pick up Fred's point about pensions, the average private employer's contribution to a pension scheme ( if they have make any contribution at all mind you!!!) is about 5% or 6% .

 

For teachers, the employer's contribution.....ie from the taxpayers...is 14%, and they can all retire at 60, instead of 65 like the private sector.,

 

Cushy ain't the word!!

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To pick up Fred's point about pensions, the average private employer's contribution to a pension scheme ( if they have make any contribution at all mind you!!!) is about 5% or 6% .

 

For teachers, the employer's contribution.....ie from the taxpayers...is 14%, and they can all retire at 60, instead of 65 like the private sector.,

 

Cushy ain't the word!!

 

Not to mention 13 weeks holidays a year! I know, I know, they mark homework at home and do a bit during the summer hols too. I have to go abroad now and then and I can assure you that getting up at 4 to catch a flight then finishing work at 8pm is not cushy. I'm not high up the scale either - it's much worse for the ones who do it frequently.

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I see Diane Abbot has put herself up for the leadership of the Labour party. I wonder what her chances are. Another Labour hypocrite who likes to tell the rest of us to how to live our lives and would have all of us send our kids to state-run schools but has her own educated privately.

 

I hope she wins.

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I hope Diane wins too. :D The rest of them are all the same. I think it would be good if the Labour party had a leftwinger in charge.

 

As far as being a hypocrite over her son's education is concerned though, I think Cameron is far worse.

 

Diane has at least said it's a fair cop and she is putting her son before party politics - and she is paying the fees. CallmeDave sending his daughter to a state primary to show he's one of the people is just ludicrous and doesn't fool anyone. His daughter does not go to the 'local' primary. She goes to a very successful middle-class primary in the middle of Kensington - quite a trek from his home. There are 22 other state primaries closer to his house. He could afford to pay for a place at a private school for his daughter, and by doing so make a place at that very good school available to a child whose parent(s) can't afford to pay fees, so will have to settle for second best for their child. :(

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The funniest thing to watch on This Week was when it first started many, many years ago. She and Michael Portillo would have a good six inches of space between them at the beginning of the programme and during the time it was on she would edge closer and closer to him, inch by inch, until she was touching him. Now they just sit touching from the beginning. :eek:

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The funniest thing to watch on This Week was when it first started many, many years ago. She and Michael Portillo would have a good six inches of space between them at the beginning of the programme and during the time it was on she would edge closer and closer to him, inch by inch, until she was touching him. Now they just sit touching from the beginning. :eek:

 

Didn't somebody compare the two of them to biscuits , saying one was a custard cream and the other one a bourbon!?

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