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    • The good news is that their PCN does not comply with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012  Schedule 4.. First under Section 9 (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; (b)inform the keeper that the driver is required to pay parking charges in respect of the specified period of parking and that the parking charges have not been paid in full; The PCN does not specify the parking period. AS you rightly say the ANPR times do not include driving to the parking space and then from there back to the exit. And once you include getting children in and out of cars especially if seat belts are involved the time spent parked can be a fair bit less than the ANPR times but still probably nowhere near the time you spent. But that doesn't matter -it's the fact that they failed to comply. Also they failed to ask the keeper to pay the charge.  Their failure means that they cannot now transfer the charge from the diver to the keeper . Only the driver is now liable. As long as UKPA do not know who was driving it will be difficult for them to win in Court as the Courts do not accept that the driver and the keeper are the same person. Particularly as anyone can drive any car if they have the correct insurance. It might be able to get more reasons to contest the PCN if you could get some photos of the signs. both at the entrance and inside the car park. the photos need to be legible and if there are signs that say different things from others that would also be a help.
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    • i'd say put lowells to strict proof of where the payment came from. cant hurt to send SB letter, even if proved not. at least they get your correct address. they'd have to link the old IVA times scale to a payment  these IVA F&F pots (if thats where it came from) most mugs dont even know they are not only taking most of your payments on fees but also creaming money off to supposedly offer F&F's.  funny when the IVA fails or is complete these sums of money in F&F pots never get given back or even mentions... these IVA firm directors esp with regard to knightsbridge and creditfix were fined and struck off more times than Paul Burdell of Link Fame and still managed to continue to scam people.
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“Prepayment customers will be looking to top up their meters with £500 in January”

 

"The average household could face a (monthly) bill of £500 for energy in January 2023, with a prediction of an annual price cap of £3,850, far exceeding already gloomy predictions for rising bills made earlier this year"

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Its going to go all Kaiser Chief's on them then TJ, many especially singles  and low income families workingh with UB top ups on benefits don't even have £500 in total per month after rent mortgage, and Council tax all paid so they are screwed.,

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On 22/07/2022 at 18:36, Ethel Street said:

I stockpiled for Brexit but didn't need it.

 

Theres time yet.

 

On 22/07/2022 at 18:36, Ethel Street said:

 

Then I stockpiled for Covid and didn't need it.

 

My daughter in law (a nurse) was in a similar situation to the nurse whos video went viral

The extended family shared out what they had with each other in that period

 

 

On 22/07/2022 at 18:36, Ethel Street said:

 

Now I've got to start again!  I've only just got through the last box of tinned fish. 😄 

 

Cold tinned fish - makes a van load of tins of beans and longlife milk seem gordon blue

- off out to stock up with baked beans again

 

wonder if boiler will run off methane ..

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Its going to go all Kaiser Chief's on them then TJ, many especially singles  and low income families workingh with UB top ups on benefits don't even have £500 in total per month after rent mortgage, and Council tax all paid so they are screwed.,

 

That latest estimate just increases the cap a bit (sic), we were past 400 quid average a month projection already.

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You may not agree with his figures but this is Martin Lewis a week ago. He mentions the possibility of a Poll Tax moment.

 

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Martin Lewis could be right on this one. looks like a bike on a frame connected to a dynamo and a battery like in Soylent Green incoming to keep a light on.

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Can anybody explain to me (other than rampant profiteering) why

 

Given the UK guv was claiming only something like 4% of British gas comes from russia and gloating about how the EU had so much more exposure to Russian gas :

 

... why are our prices going through the roof - literally multiplying, FAR higher than the EU is allowing their companies, when we apparently have

 

* so little 'exposure to Russian manipulation

* export to other countries (at top dollar)

* and 'our/british energy companies are making record profits at our expense from the nations resources

 

???

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The Energyco's are in French and other Foreign ownership?

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Privatising them hasn't helped at all, has it?

 

Meanwhile France is renationalising the part of EdF it doesn't already own and has set limits on price increases. Doesn't mean it's cheap but it's more controlled.

 

I don't see why the power companies shouldn't help to share the pain when they're making huge profits. Assuming help is offered to offset bills, why should the taxpayer help to subside the shareholders?

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The Energyco's are in French and other Foreign ownership?

 

whoever owns them -  UK business subject to UK laws and requirements (or lack of them) and BP is based in London

- and I'd like to hear our brexiter populist guv explain the cost of 'foreign' profiteering, which the PM hopefuls have all cheered as examples of success ... to the brexit fan base

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Winners and loser's both ways TJ, Brexit was a mismanaged mess.

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Winners and loser's both ways TJ, Brexit was a mismanaged mess.

 

I wonder how many of even Brexit voting ordinary people are on the winning side of that?

Bet its a very very very small minority

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High costs of energy are feeding into increased cost of goods and services, which will help ensure that inflation is high for longer.  I think some predictions are for UK inflation rate to reach as high as 14%.

 

Are we headed for a winter of discontent under the current Government ?  Even those who backed the Tories in 2019 to 'get Brexit done' will be thinking that their living standards have dropped significantly in the last few years. 

 

How many businesses will go bust, due to increased costs of running their businesses, without an increase in income ?     If people are having to pay £3k plus in household energy costs,  this will severely impact on consumer spending levels and businesses who have just about survived during Covid, will now be at risk of having to close.

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truss will just whack a load more debt on the taxpayer credit card, and like Johnson consider it someone elses future problem

Sunak unlikely to be any better overall - just very bad in a slightly different way.

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Have thought for many years, even before the 2007 crash, that the Western economic system is broken and has been for a very long time.

 

The huge gap in wealth between top 1% and the rest is too wide. And tax havens enable Governments to encourage money laundering, tax evasion, tax avoidance, shell companies where ownership is unknown etc.

 

And on the topic of energy, Governments have been serving the interests of the oil companies, energy companies and those who invest to make money.  Rather than have a strategy of ensuring investment to produce energy in cheapest possible way and insulating more buildings to reduce energy consumption.

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Sounds like the working from home economy is at risk as well, if the Internet goes down for extended periods, as the data centres have no power or restrictions placed on them. 

 

Hopefully the power will stay flowing, but the modern world we live in is all about technology that uses a lot of electric. 

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They seem to have purposely let infrastructure deteriorate.

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I wonder if government build infrastructure and then think that's the end of it and it won't need maintenance.

 

And I'm sure I've read in the past about maintenance being reduced because things like train lines were running well. The people doing the work said it was only running well because of the maintenance.

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Sounds like the working from home economy is at risk as well, if the Internet goes down for extended periods, as the data centres have no power or restrictions placed on them. 

 

Hopefully the power will stay flowing, but the modern world we live in is all about technology that uses a lot of electric. 

 

 

Never mind internet and  power .. What about water/sewage ?

 

* They are already pouring literally millions of liters of poo into the waterways every year because the sewage infrastructure cant cope  - and rewarding themselves and shareholders handsomely for doing that with Billions under spent on even existing infrastructure used to pay massive bonuses and unwarranted dividends

 

* Reservoirs are already struggling .. wait until just 2 years from now to likely see some boom/bust flood/drought that will make this year seem a breeze

 

 

 

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Not a cap

- demonstrably just a profit enabling mechanism

 

As they are already making record profits with the 'target' increases already, where is there ANY justification to raise it further?

 

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Thing is, I do largely agree with Starmer that water should not be renationalised at this stage ....

 

They had huge debts wiped out by thatcherite policy when they were privatised

They immediately started running the companies into MASSIVE debt again to pay massively increased senior staff pay increases and huge dividends - not to invest in infrastructure

 

They are now just worthless debt mountains which the taxpayer would have to bail out - AGAIN, let alone all the pension schemes with large share holdings if renationalised.

 

 

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FOR STARTERS - Legislate that no more than say 5% of actual investment level can be paid as dividends ...

.. and zero bonus to directors if the company fails to meet investment, debt reduction and environmental requirements (with associated huge fines and cleanup costs).

 

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Slightly off topic  but I can see this happening in UK soon.  Tinned Spam and tinned ham in security protected boxes !

 

NYC drug store has put $3.99 tins of SPAM in security cases.

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"Hosepipe ban and compulsory water metering needed, say advisers, as nation braces for drought"

.. they must mean 'to maintain dividends' - says advisors who presumably advised them on practices that got us to such a poor water and sewage infrastructure state with such high dividend and bonus payouts

 

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